DEA Manuals Show Feds Use NSA Spy Data, Train Cops to Construct False Chains of Evidence

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180. When you accuse me of defending "blanket survelance"...

... of American citizens not suspected of a crime, you are, in my opinion, exaggerating what is being done by the NSA and attributing to me a position I did not take. I don't know if this is done in "bad faith" or for the purpose of "obfuscating" but that accusation is what I was responding to.

My belief, based on my knowledge of current events and the revelations to date is that the NSA is primarily and almost entirely concerned with legitimate signals intelligence of foreign targets, and is uninterested in and not involved with conducting surveillance of U.S. citizens except to the extent that it is incidental to their foreign intelligence, is authorized by law and is compliant with Constitutional principles.

And even in those cases where they do end up with information concerning illegal or suspicions activates of American citizens, they turn the information over to the FBI, the DEA or other law enforcement agencies, because law enforcement is not their job.