{"id":1399,"date":"2013-08-05T15:23:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T20:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2013-08-20T12:32:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T17:32:26","slug":"u-s-directs-agents-to-cover-up-program-used-to-investigate-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to &#8220;recreate&#8221; the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant&#8217;s Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don&#8217;t know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence &#8211; information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/08\/05\/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805\">Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to &#8220;recreate&#8221; the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant&#8217;s Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[117,147],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events","tag-drug-war","tag-nsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}