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Nsa And Dea Intelligence Sharing: Why It's Legal And Why Reuters And The Good Wife Got It Wrong, Melanie M. Reid
Nsa And Dea Intelligence Sharing: Why It's Legal And Why Reuters And The Good Wife Got It Wrong, Melanie M. Reid
Melanie M. Reid
The recent disclosures of secret U.S. government surveillance programs have brought to the forefront how intelligence agencies should manage the gathering and analysis of intelligence collected and when and how best to pass that information on to law enforcement. What is first collected for national security purposes can now potentially be used in a criminal trial. Law enforcement agents are said to utilize “parallel construction” to hide the original source which initiated the criminal investigation and develop their own evidence independent from this original source. Since the “wall” between intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies fell down post-9/11 and intelligence …