Using Domestic Surveillance to Get Rapists to Spy for America

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Using Domestic Surveillance to Get Rapists to Spy for America
.......Olson argued the threat of a rape prosecution might help the Feds convince a rapist to “help us.”
By: emptywheel Tuesday June 7, 2011 2:26 p

OLSON: And it seems to me, if anything, it illustrates the position that we’re taking about here. That, Judge Silberman, makes it clear that to the extent a FISA-approved surveillance uncovers information that’s totally unrelated — let’s say, that a person who is under surveillance has also engaged in some illegal conduct, cheating –

JUDGE LEAVY: Income tax.

SOLICITOR GENERAL OLSON: Income tax. What we keep going back to is practically all of this information might in some ways relate to the planning of a terrorist act or facilitation of it.

JUDGE SILBERMAN: Try rape. That’s unlikely to have a foreign intelligence component.

SOLICITOR GENERAL OLSON: It’s unlikely, but you could go to that individual and say we’ve got this information and we’re prosecuting and you might be able to help us. I don’t want to foreclose that.

JUDGE SILBERMAN: It’s a stretch.

SOLICITOR GENERAL OLSON: It is a stretch but it’s not impossible either.

THE REST:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/06/07/using-domestic-surveillance-to-get-rapists-to-spy-for-america/

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1. To the Olsons, we are a nation of snitches and terrorists. No wonder they hate our freedoms.

It gets in the way of their operations that produce more . . . you got it, snitches and terrorists.

Ad nausea, a boot coming down on a human face, forever.