FBI Wants Access To Internet Browser History Without A Warrant In Terrorism And Spy Cases

[That Guy 888]

9. I seem to remember someone posted a story about "parallel prosecutions" um... last year?

The story said that law enforcement already does this illegally. Something along the lines of: while wire tapping a second or third tier* terrorist contact, they hear about other unrelated criminal activity like drug smuggling, the agency involved then tips off state or local law enforcement about the details of the drug smuggling. The local law enforcement then plays it off as an anonymous tip or acting on a hunch. Legally I think it violates the Forth Amendment, since the drug smuggling wouldn't be covered by the terrorism warrant, unless the proceeds where funding terrorism, but I'm not a lawyer.



*Under bush's surveillance, I think they were called "tiers" or "points of contact" something like that. If you or I called a pizza place that had also been called by a suspected terrorist, we would have been placed under electronic scrutiny as well. Obama knocked it back to two: only people the hypothetical terrorist had direct contact with.


Hopefully this post makes sense, too tired to search for the "good read" story that was posted.