Ulbricht's Defense Doubts FBI's Explanation Of How It Found Silk Road's Servers

Ulbricht's Defense Doubts FBI's Explanation Of How It Found Silk Road's Servers

Back in August 2013, Reuters revealed that the DEA was receiving information from the NSA about suspects who had no connection to terrorism. Worse still, the NSA then gave tips to the DEA on how to hide that fact from the entire justice system, including judges and defense attorneys. How a law enforcement agency obtains its evidence is key to trials in America. The technique is called “parallel construction” but a more accurate name would be “evidence fabrication” and the report was concerning to anyone who cares if our justice system has any shred of justice in it. If law enforcement lies....


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