Re:Signal not in compliance with new rules, say officials
by clucas on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:42PM
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You are talking about a particular type of warrant. I don't think the average local police force is getting FISA warrants for their day-to-day police work (maybe I'm wrong? I would like to see numbers on that before I change my mind though), and OP did not limit their statment to FISA warrants.
Re:Signal not in compliance with new rules, say officials
by vngzs on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:24PM
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The news sources I've encountered seem to imply otherwise. The linked Washington Post article was an early hint at this, and built on original material from [0]. Now we have other sources backing this up, such as [1], and detailed breakdowns of this practice with lots of evidence as seen in [2]. Just search for the word "local" or "state" in [2] if you need the details.
[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod/exclusive-u-s-dir...
[1]: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/09/dark-side-fbi-dea-illega...
[2]: https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origi...
Well, both.
Warrants may be granted very easily via the FISA courts [0]. They are unenforced in the warrantless wiretap programs [1]. If your wiretap happened to be illegal, and you want to work around this to win the court case anyway, you use parallel construction to build a case that does not rely on the secret wiretap [2]:
> Because the SOD's work is classified, DEA cases that began as NSA leads can't be seen to have originated from a NSA source.
> So what does the DEA do? It makes up the story of how the agency really came to the case in a process known as "parallel construction."
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...
[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05...