Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

[Warren Bailey <wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com>]

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On 6/21/13 11:42 AM, "Phil Fagan" <philfagan () gmail com> wrote:

> I guess the moral here is....don't do anything "wrong."
>
> :-D
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> > > On Jun 21, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Phil Fagan <philfagan () gmail com> wrote:
> > > > I would think this is only an issue if they throw out the Fourth in
> > that when
> > > > they use that data collected "inadvertantly" to build a case a
> > against
> > you
> > > > they use no other data collected under a proper warrant.
> > >
> > > That statement ignores a longstanding legal principle known as "fruit
> > of
> > the poison tree".
> >
> > Howdy,
> >
> > In spite of what you may have seen on TV, law enforcement is not
> > required to ignore evidence of a crime which turns up during a lawful
> > search merely because it's evidence of a different crime. Fruit of the
> > poisonous tree applies when the original search for whatever it was
> > they were originally looking for is unlawful. Supposedly the FISA
> > court found the NSA's troll for terrorists to be lawful. Once that's
> > true, evidence of any crime may be lawfully introduced in court.
> >
> >
> > For a fun read, check out the Ilustrated Guide to Criminal Law:
> > http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=18
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bill Herrin
> >
> >
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> Phil Fagan
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