by Nick Russo TheAnimatingContest.com November 2, 2014
In a Wired Magazine article by Kim Zetter, it is revealed that the U.S. Marshals Service and local police departments throughout the nation “have been deliberately deceiving judges” when applying for search warrants. U.S. Marshals and local police departments have been using surveillance devices called “Stingrays” which trick cell phones into connecting to the device and revealing their location and call information. The only problem is they have used the devices to capture information without a search warrant. Law enforcement, then, uses the information gained to get search warrants from judges; telling the judges that the information received was from ” a confidential source” not a surveillance device. So, law enforcement is working backwards using ILLEGALLY GAINED INFORMATION TO CREATE SUFFICIENT PROBABLE CAUSE for a judge to issue a search warrant. Read Original Article Here..
“Concealing the use of stingrays deprives defendants of their right to challenge unconstitutional surveillance and keeps the public in the dark about invasive monitoring by local police,” the ACLU writes in a blog post about the emails. “And local and federal law enforcement should certainly not be colluding to hide basic and accurate information about their practices from the public and the courts.”
“..emails released Thursday show police in Florida are going even further to conceal their use of the equipment when they seek probable cause warrants to search facilities where a suspect is located, deceiving the courts about where they obtained the evidence to support their application for the search.”
“A series of five emails written in April, 2009, were obtained today by the American Civil Liberties Union showing police officials discussing the deception.”
As reported at infowars.com (HERE), the practice of using devices such as the Stingray in addition to CLANDESTINE CELL PHONE TOWERS has been found all over the nation in direct violation of the United States Constitution.
