Friday, August 16, 2013
Government at Work - on a slippery slope
I If you believe the end justifies the means, you could agree with this.
On the other hand, everyone should obey the rules, and if they don't like them, work to have them changed...
On the other hand, everyone should obey the rules, and if they don't like them, work to have them changed...
In this Reuters story by David Ingram and John Shiffman, a very questionable practice is exposed:
"The practice of creating an alternate investigative trail to hide how a case began - what federal agents call 'parallel construction' - has never been thoroughly tested in court, lawyers and law professors said in interviews this week. Internal training documents reported by Reuters this week instruct agents not to reveal information they get from a unit of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, but instead to recreate the same information by other means. A similar set of instructions was included in an IRS manual in 2005 and 2006, Reuters reported."
