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Its anonymous sources titrating information to reporters and nothing is ever official. and you can see the way theyre sort of trying to balance their strategy here. the embassies all being closed for a long time, thats a big deal. you want people to know that this big deal thing you have done is justified. so its helpful to be able to say something other than, oh, vaguely we have national security concerns so were shutting down the embassies. were worried about some threat that were not going to...

A prosecution. but in that case, how can a person fully defend themselves if theyre not able to follow the information and the accusations against them to their source? >> well, law enforcement has a term for this. they call it, quote, parallel construction. and what it -- and it is designed to hide the evidence. and the problem is not so much the probable cause and why someone might have been pulled over. the problem occurs if the case goes to trial and the defendant has a right to see that evi...

How does this work? >> well, there are four ways that the special operations division, which is a unit of dea, gets this information. the first way they get it is through -- passed along nsa intercepts. the second way they get it from regular informants. the third way they get it is from a large data base of telephone and internet data collected inside the united states. and the fourth way is through wiretaps from one investigation and applying it to the next investigation. and what they do is t...

The web on friday and published on saturday, the identities of the al qaeda leaders whose conversations were intercepted were withheld by the "new york times" at the request of senior american intelligence officials. so "the times" reporters knew but they didnt say in the article because the government asked them not to say. then on sunday, reporters from mcclachy wrote about the same inter-september and went ahead and printed the guys names. "after the government became aware of this article, t...

Committed by americans. according to reuters, a secret dea unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of americans. reuters also reporting that law enforcement officials are getting trained that once they get these tips from nsa surveillance and other places, they should cover up that the information that they got came from any of those surveillance programs. they should, instead, pretend that they got t...

Issue was taken up in a serious manner by their state government. one of the ways we know was because the person who is going to chair that hearing because he heads up that committee has already said he does not want to change, quote, one damn comma of the stand your ground law. its not like he wouldve called this hearing of his own volition to review this law. but the not one damn comma guy is going to have to hold this hearing because his boss, the republicans speaker of the house, told him th...

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