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It's anonymous sources titrating information to reporters and nothing is ever official. and you can see the way they're sort of trying to balance their strategy here. the embassies all being closed for a long time, that's a big deal. you want people to know that this big deal thing you have done is justified. so it's helpful to be able to say something other than, oh, vaguely we have national security concerns so we're shutting down the embassies. we're worried about some threat that we're not going to talk about. that's still the official line, right? it is helpful to be able to say that actu...

A prosecution. but in that case, how can a person fully defend themselves if they're 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 evidence in pretrial discovery that's against them, any evidence against them at trial. and they may n...

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 they pass these tips along to agents in the field. when the agents are released to make arrests, a tr...

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 didn't 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, the mcclatchey article, the government dropped its objections to "the times" publishing the same in...

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 the information through traditional legal law enforcement means. they should launder the source of th...