DOJ Often Used Cell Tower Impersonating Devices Without Explicit Warrants

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you can't prove them either

YOU are providing the EVIDENCE.

I'm providing the Big Picture drawn your (and my) evidence.

Evidence? You post a LOT of very nasty evidence, but NEVER say how to stop or reverse it, because, I SAY, it's unstoppable, irreversible.

Ball in your court ... (has been for years, while I've been serving aces)

[Winehole23]

it's not tennis, and I don't pretend to have any answers for the problems discussed here.

you put an inordinate stress on having solutions to problems ready at hand. answers to questions.

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I question your certainty and self-assuredness. it's totally unearned.

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I question your certainty and self-assuredness. it's totally unearned.

Pick up a racket try even stopping, reversing the horrible you yourself post

Inequality, the militarized police state, the loss of 10Ms of good jobs, 10Ms in poverty and on public assistance, gone: any financial security, all getting worse, Americans getting sicker and fatter by the day, have been, and going on indefinitely

[Winehole23]

the sky hasn't fallen yet, Chicken-Little

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the sky hasn't fallen yet, Chicken-Little

been crashing down since mid-70s. Your own posts provide lots of evidence.

"It's ALWAYS the Economy, stupid'

You ignore the data, even your own, but anyway:

Five Charts That Show Americans Families’ Debt Crisis

U.S. households owe trillions in student loans, credit card loans, auto loans, and mortgages.

1. Although household debt relative to GDP has declined since the recession, it remains higher than it was for almost all of postwar history.

2. Nonmortgage debt, which includes student loans, credit card debt, and auto loans, is creeping up. Meanwhile, mortgage debt is creeping back up, having fallen after the housing bubble popped.

3. Student loan debt now exceeds credit card debt, auto loans, and other nonmortga

4. Household debt relative to GDP is greater in the U.S. than in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain.

5. The average household that has credit card debt owes$16,000. That number is $27,000 for auto loans, $48,000 for student loans, and $169,000 for mortgages.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_united_states_of_debt/2016/05/the_rise_of_household_debt_in_the_u_s_in_five_char ts.html

And you offer nothing to stop, to reverse the unstoppable, irreversible income suppression, the wealth sucking, the militarized police state, and total corruption of politics by capitalists.

[Winehole23]

same , different day.

studies on IMSI catchers should be done in every city and state.

[Winehole23]

Same , different day

These non-disclosure agreements, dozens of which police departments have (intentionally or not) already made public, can be described as explicitly prohibiting police from discussing the use of stingrays in the broadest sense. An agreement prepared by the bureau for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department in 2012, for instance, bars police from telling anyone they acquired a stingray, including the public, the press, and “other law enforcement agencies.”


Screenshot: Mike Katz-Lacabe, Center for Human Rights and Privacy


In plain English, the agreement instructs police to try to convict people of crimes using the data collected from such devices while also concealing the existence of the devices themselves from judges, defendants, and juries. Lastly, it asserts the FBI holds the right to seek the dismissal of any charges brought against a suspect if the case is likely to result in the public learning “any information” about the devices or their capabilities.

The FBI publicly acknowledged the existence of these agreements to the Washington Post years ago. Perplexingly, it is now refusing to do so a second time. Although, in 2015, an agency spokesperson told the Post that “nondisclosure agreements do not preclude police from discussing the equipment’s use.” The agreements themselves contradict that statement, and maybe the FBI now prefers silence rather than continuing to live a lie.

While the Freedom of Information Act allows the FBI to withhold certain information from the public based on the idea that doing so would compromise “techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions,” the ACLU is arguing that the agreements themselves are not covered under this exemption.

Here are 26 of them, compiled by Mike Katz-Lacabe at the Center for Human Rights and Privacy. I’m not a lawyer, but feel free to judge for yourself.

The ACLU said on Wednesday that it launched its effort to gather copies of the non-disclosure agreements 11 months ago after Gizmodo discovered the primary company responsible for providing law enforcement stingrays, the Harris Corporation, had decided it would no longer sell them directly to local police. As Gizmodo reported, police agencies are now turning to other manufacturers, including one in Canada whose patents lean heavily on the work of engineers overseas.

“The public lacks information about whether the FBI is currently imposing conditions on state and local agencies’ purchase of cell site simulator technology from these or other companies,” the ACLU’s complaint says.“In response to our request, the FBI issued a ‘Glomar response,’ meaning they refused to confirm or deny the existence of any responsive records,” the ACLU said. “Glomar responses are only legal in rare situations where disclosing the existence (or non-existence) of the requested records would itself reveal information that is exempt from disclosure under FOIA.”

“In this case, the FBI’s Glomar response doesn’t come close to passing the sniff test,” the lawyers said, calling the bureau’s refusal to “confirm or deny” if it even has records about secrecy agreements “ironic indeed.”

“The fact of whether the FBI has continued to impose nondisclosure agreements and other conditions on local and state police isn’t a secret law enforcement technique or procedure,” they added. “It’s basic information about whether the government is evading foundational transparency requirements we expect in a democratic society.”

https://gizmodo.com/fbi-will-neither...hes-1848234939

[Winehole23]

"we make the rules, we break the rules"

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) looked at CSS deployment by the Secret Service and ICE and found, "Secret Service and ICE HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] did not always adhere to Federal statute and CSS policies when using CSS during investigations involving exigent cir stances."



The OIG audit report [PDF] also found that "ICE HSI did not adhere to Department privacy policies and the applicable Federal privacy statute when using CSS."

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/..._ice_stingray/

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tower dumps found uncons utional

A Nevada man, Cory Spurlock, is facing charges related to dealing marijuana and a murder-for-hire scheme. Cops used a tower dump to connect his cellphone with the location of some of the crimes he is accused of. Spurlock’s lawyers argued that the tower dump was an uncons utional search and that the evidence obtained during it should not be. The cops got a warrant to conduct the tower dump but argued it wasn’t technically a “search” and therefore wasn’t subject to the Fourth Amendment.

U.S. District Juste Miranda M. Du rejected this argument, but wouldn’t suppress the evidence. “The Court finds that a tower dump is a search and the warrant law enforcement used to get it is a general warrant forbidden under the Fourth Amendment,” she said in a ruling filed on April 11. “That said, because the Court appears to be the first court within the Ninth Circuit to reach this conclusion and the good faith exception otherwise applies, the Court will not order any evidence suppressed.”

Du argued that the officers acted in good faith when they filed the warrant and that they didn’t know the search was uncons utional when they conducted it. According to Du, the warrant wasn’t uncons utional when a judge issued it.

https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-...ons utional/

[Winehole23]

tower dumps found uncons utional

A Nevada man, Cory Spurlock, is facing charges related to dealing marijuana and a murder-for-hire scheme. Cops used a tower dump to connect his cellphone with the location of some of the crimes he is accused of. Spurlock’s lawyers argued that the tower dump was an uncons utional search and that the evidence obtained during it should not be. The cops got a warrant to conduct the tower dump but argued it wasn’t technically a “search” and therefore wasn’t subject to the Fourth Amendment.

U.S. District Juste Miranda M. Du rejected this argument, but wouldn’t suppress the evidence. “The Court finds that a tower dump is a search and the warrant law enforcement used to get it is a general warrant forbidden under the Fourth Amendment,” she said in a ruling filed on April 11. “That said, because the Court appears to be the first court within the Ninth Circuit to reach this conclusion and the good faith exception otherwise applies, the Court will not order any evidence suppressed.”

Du argued that the officers acted in good faith when they filed the warrant and that they didn’t know the search was uncons utional when they conducted it. According to Du, the warrant wasn’t uncons utional when a judge issued it.

https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-...ons utional/