[OKCSubmariner]

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[Chapita]

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[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[Uncle Bill]

In 1998, it came to light that the Los Angeles Police Department was extensively using illegal wiretaps to monitor citizens, collect evidence illegally, and invade the privacy of innocents. The police avoided revealing the existence of their electronic intercepts using a procedure known as "the handoff." Officers gathering information on one suspect would turn over information about other people to other detectives without identifying the source of the information. The other detectives would then gather facts independently to provide the "probable cause" needed to convince a judge to sign a search warrant targeting the new suspect. This could go on a long time without ever revealing the existence of the first wiretap.

[Judge Parker]

Looks like if we didn't belive in the Constitution and were atheists, we'd be considered gut Americans by the Republicans. And these are the "conservatives?" Man, what would we have to do to please the Democrats?