Yeah. Right.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/uk-dea-irs-idUKBRE9761B620130807
“As Reuters reported Monday, the Special Operations Division of the DEA funnels information from overseas NSA intercepts, domestic wiretaps, informants and a large DEA database of telephone records to authorities nationwide to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans. The DEA phone database is distinct from a NSA database disclosed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Monday’s Reuters report cited internal government documents that show that law enforcement agents have been trained to conceal how such investigations truly begin - to “recreate” the investigative trail to effectively cover up the original source of the information.”
While disturbing in some regards, it doesn’t back up the claim that NSA information is used against defendants. In fact the article actually describes that the information cannot be used, it simply opens up an investigation which clues the government into wrong doing and then a case that would actually have to hold up in court has to be created with REAL evidence that would be used for all to see in court.
We could go back to the fact of whether or not an investigation should of even gotten started because of the “spying”, but it actually goes to my point that NSA information is not being hidden from the courts and then used against defendants to put them away.