Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
August 6, 2013
The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has been running a separate surveillance program with a secret unit called the Special Operations Division (SOD) that is tasked with gathering intelligence and conceals that data which is used to investigate and build criminal cases against Americans.
SOD is touted as a force that investigates the activities of drug dealers, money launderers and other various criminal actions of Americans. Evidence is collected on global narco-terrorism.
The National Security Agency (NSA) receives intelligence from SOD in the form of tips, wiretaps, interceptions of foreign governments and data from the DICE database which interacts with federal agents and local law enforcement.
DICE consists of an estimated 1 billion records; including phone log data that is gathered through subpoenas and search warrants.
An estimated 10,000 federal, state and local law enforcement have open access to DICE databases to query clues that support their contentions with regard to suspects.
Agents working for SOD are tasked with reverse-engineering investigative information to conceal their involvement with other federal agents, defense attorneys, prosecutors and judges.
This also prevents defendants from having access to evidence that would be used against them in court.
Classified and sensitive information is protected under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and disclosed to those Congressional leaders as briefings for intelligence committee members that have foreknowledge of NSA classified programs.
The SOD program was obviously created under the guise of national security yet operates as a pathway for the federal government to circumvent procedures for obtaining legal permission to conduct surveillance on Americans.
Partners of SOD include:
• The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)
• The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• The Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
An undated document obtained by mainstream media (MSM), there has been a concerted effort to cover up the dealings of SOD because of the violations to American’s Constitutional rights the program poses.
Through coercion, entrapment and biased witnesses, SOD created profiled “evidence” to be used against targets.
The document, marked “law enforcement sensitive” states: “Remember that the utilization of SOD cannot be revealed or discussed in any investigative function.
In addition “the document specifically directs agents to omit the SOD’s involvement from investigative reports, affidavits, discussions with prosecutors and courtroom testimony.”
DEA officials asked about SOD claimed that this practice is legal and used regularly and used on a regular basis.
One anonymous whistleblower confirmed: “You’d be told only, ‘Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle.’ And so we’d alert the state police to find an excuse to stop that vehicle, and then have a drug dog search it.”
For example, a SOD recreation would “pretend” that the investigation “began with a traffic stop” and had no involvement with SOD. Using “parallel construction” techniques, the agents would “work it backwards to make it clean.”
The Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced they will be looking into the SOD program.
Jay Carey, press secretary for the Obama administration said : “I would refer you to the Department of Justice on this. And beyond that, I can tell that it’s my understanding … that the Department of Justice is looking at some of the issues raised in the story.”
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