“Federal agents are trained to ‘recreate’ the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant’s Constitutional right to a fair trial,” reported Reuters."Some Experts" like Jim Sensenbrenner, the guy who wrote the Patriot Act has insisted that the bill was written specifically to prevent the kind of datamining we now know the NSA pretends the law authorized. Awesome. So what happened?
1) Congress specifically told the NSA not to spy on Americans. Twice.
2) The NSA said, "Fuck you" and did it anyway. Which is illegal.
3) But things are go swimmingly. NSA perverts are spying on ex-spuses, lovers and soon to be ex-lovers.
4) The NSA isn't catching terrorist, but decide they can bust some pot smokers and tax cheats. So the NSA reaches out to Chimpy aWol Bush's badly politicized DOJ. Those wing nuts are mean spirited and bigoted and they give NSA legal cover over illegally obtained evidence. Immediately it becomes clear to the republican run DOJ that weaponizing NSA intel means a permanent republican majority everywhere. Karl Rove becomes the most powerful man in the Universe.
Between a 'captive' FISA court, a corrupt DOJ and lying to congress, it's game on.
5) In the 'clear' the NSA gives illegally obtained intelligence to the FBI, CIA, DEA, IRS and whomever else the ChimpCo DOJ wanted to, then told everyone to lie about where the information came from. Again highly illegal.
6) That's when the US goes Post-Constitutional. Deep State NSA goes to war on American citizens. Black budgets get increased. Life is good. The American Way prevails.
7) Only one tiny little problem. One little fly in the ointment. Not a single terrorist attack has been prevented by domestic spying. Billions have been spent, but the NSA is not foiling any terrorist plots.
8) The 'captive' FISA court and the DOJ is complicit with the NSA in criminal conspiracy to lie to the rest of the world, which is again, usually illegal when you do it in front of a judge.
9) ChimpCo leaves in disgrace. John "The Navy's Shittiest Pilot" McCain queefs Palin and Greasy Todd onto the world and the US elects a black man.
Oops. Now things really go sideways.
10) ChimpCo torture, rendition, Valerie Plame, Domestic Spying, 911, War Crimes and global economic catastrophe makes investigation into republican corruption impossible. Too many people at the NSA and CIA have done way too much, broken too many big laws. America's first black president wont survive a CIA coup. Old White Conservatives go apoplectic Teabag.
Obama says it's time to look forward, not backward.
11) The only problem is, with no indictments, Deep State NSA/CIA says, "Eat All The Cookies!". No accountability. And then came the whistleblowers. Then Silk Road. Now even civilians realize the game is rigged. Lawyers are begin to get standing. Blood and money begin to cloud the waters.
How do the government conspirators cover up their crimes? Who was fucking dumb enough to think this was all going to end well? Watch this space.
But here's the thing: If the NSA, FBI, IRS and the DEA can lie to congress or a federal judge without accountability, why doesn't the NSA just team up with the CIA and create their own death squads? And who at Deep State NSA decides which cases get what illegally obtained info?
