The wingnuts were enraged that she "was personally responsible for instituting a key obstacle to cooperation between law enforcement and intelligence operations before the terrorist attacks" and this was used as a cudgel against liberals and Democrats in general.
Now,
Reuters has exposed what happens when this wall has been removed:
As Reuters reported Monday,
the Special Operations Division of the DEA funnels information from overseas NSA intercepts, domestic wiretaps, informants and a large DEA database of telephone records to authorities nationwide to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans. The DEA phone database is distinct from a NSA database disclosed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Monday's Reuters report cited internal government documents that show that
law enforcement agents have been trained to conceal how such investigations truly begin - to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively cover up the original source of the information.
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