The DEA Is Using Info Illegally Obtained By The NSA To Illegally Prosecute Americans - An Online DEA Manual Shows Cops How To Lie About It

 

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By Bruce Dixon
Whoever suggests the Snowden revelations mean nothing to the lives of ordinary black people either isn't paying close attention, or is working for the police and prison state. The federal DEA, the Justice Department's federal drug police, have passed tons illegal NSA spying data to local police agencies and cynically coached them to lie about the sources of their evidence. It's not exaggeration or hype. You can view the manuals online for yourself.

One of the least remarked upon chunks of Edward Snowden's voluminous revelations about government spying on civilians has been the fact that the Drug Enforcement Administration, the federal police agency created to fight the war on drugs, has funneled illegal NSA surveillance to local police agencies around the country.

New disclosures now allow us to see online the DEA training manuals with which Drug Enforcement Administration agents are taught to coach local police departments across the country how to lie about their chains of evidence and sources, how to willfully violate the law and cover their tracks  in thousands or tens of thousands of cases every year in order to fill the cells of the US prison state with drug defendants.

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