
“As revolutionary and noted hypocrite Thomas Jefferson once observed, the spread of tyranny only requires our silence. Millions of people have been sent to prison on drug-war convictions over the last 20 years. Most of those people have been poor and black. We will never know how many of those cases resulted from secret evidence collected by spy agencies, but it might not be a small number. One of the Reuters articles that broke this story quotes DEA officials as saying that the ‘parallel construction’ tactic had been used by the agency ‘virtually every day since the 1990s.'”
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/10/the_nsa_dea_police_state_tango/singleton/
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