Judge: Feds Don't Have To Disclose Use Of Expanded US Surveillance In Chicago Terrorism Case

[Purveyor]

CHICAGO — A federal judge in a Chicago terrorism case says the government doesn't have to disclose whether it employed the kind of phone and Internet surveillance revealed in leaks by ex-government contractor Edward Snowden.

The pretrial ruling dealt only with Adel Daoud's case. He denies seeking to detonate a bomb outside a Chicago bar in 2012.

Defense lawyers wanted the judge to order the government to say whether it used enhanced surveillance to flag Daoud for investigation. They argued that would have violated his rights.

But Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman said in a docket entry late Friday that Daoud's attorneys "failed to provide any basis" for an order.

Prosecutors say they won't use evidence derived directly from enhanced surveillance at trial, so aren't obliged to disclose if they ever used it.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/241169061.html

[questionseverything]

1. there goes the 6th

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.

Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/dea-agents-cover-up-spying-program-2013-8#ixzz2qmr2lSxn

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In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

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2. Because the Fed's, even with all that information, had no real clue at all.

Feds Don't Have To Disclose Use Of Expanded US Surveillance In Chicago Terrorism Case

That is not why they collect that information anyway, even thought they say it is.

[riderinthestorm]

3. Now he'll (we'll) never know if this is one of the NSA's fabricated evidence trail victims...

Seems as though the defense attorneys have their suspicions...