A Compoundment of Lies

From huckstering and finessing, Obambi has now passed over onto outright lying. 

Speaking (appropriated enough) on a late night comedy talk show, the Chief Lawn Ornament stated “We don’t have a domestic spying program. What we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or an email address..."

Amazingly enough, Ornament made this "remark" but days after the leaks revealed the Government's SOD programme.

"Leaked documents have revealed the existence of a Special Operations Division (SOD) within the Drug Enforcement Agency that receives and distributes tips gleaned by the NSA to arrange arrests, and then hides where that information came from. ...  SOD was set up in 1994 to deal with drug cartels and organised trafficking of narcotics, and uses information provided by the NSA and other sources to inform agents of possible arrest possibilities. ... Part of the deal for getting this data is that the DEA and others should cover up the information's source by setting up a fake investigation trail – a process known as "parallel construction". For example, the police could say the arrest was made during a routine traffic stop or on the word of an informant."  [ UK Register ]

Parallel Construction ... but another euphemism for lying. What it means is that when the police need to swear out a warrant they string together "hypothetical facts" to support their alleged probable cause.  The police actually have their own word for it: testilying.

Testilying has been going on for decades it is well known to every criminal lawyer that ever set foot in a court room.  It is well known to judges who specialise in swallowing with a straight face. 

Parallel Construction is so well known that it even made it to the United States Supreme Court which upheld the constitutionality of pretextual stops in Whren v. United States (1996), 517 U.S. 806,  ruling that an officer's motive for stopping a vehicle was constitutionally irrelevant so long as he could allege "objective facts" (e.g. a broken tail-light) which would justify the stop.  (Id., at p. 813.)  By "motive" the Court meant "other reasons" and it was not so stupid as to believe that these "other reasons" were restricted to a "subjective" yearning to see the young blonde's boobs up close. 

For decades judges have winked at lying cops and have played credulous and stupid when told that the suspect vehicle was pursued for 10 miles in a high speed chase through residential neighbourhoods in order to effect a stop for expired registration tags. 

In other words, not only could the cops hide the true reasons for their detention, search and arrests, judges indulged them even when they lied about the existence of the alleged "objective" pretext.  As long as the police could come up with something that sounded good, the Constitution was appeased. 

And cometh now the Presidential Lawn Ornament to lie about the lying.  Our government is nothing but a heap of lies compounded on lies. 

©Barfo, 2013