Editor’s Note: This seems a lot like this recent article about cops pulling over travelers and searching their cars for money after using drug dogs to falsely alert something is in the vehicle. It’s just another way to steal from the plebs in the neo-feudalistic society we are currently living in.
(Article originally posted at Tech Dirt)
Here you are: written evidence that asset forfeiture leads to law enforcement activity, rather than the other way around. (h/t Brad Heath)
The DEA has already been blasted by the DOJ’s Inspector General for its confidential informant program. The DEA’s informants were paid when they weren’t producing intel. They were paid and sheltered from prosecution when they committed criminal acts falling outside their purview as informants. And the entire program was adrift in a sea of corruption and chaos, subject to no real oversight. To top it all off, Inspector General Michael Horowitz had to battle the DEA for every document and piece of relevant information just to arrive at these conclusions.
This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on JANUARY 21, 2016.
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