The cops should be able to lie, because, well, it's for a "good cause", right? Almost makes you wonder if cops might believe they are "justified" to lie about other things as well. How does that fit in with "serve and protect"? This is what now passes for "law enforcement" in this country. You don't suppose they'd ever lie about anything having to do with confiscating any firearms from anyone, do you? You know, like after Katrina? Or whenever they want to and make up some other b*llsh*t excuse for exercising their monopoly of coercive violence..
Full article:
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/feds-told-cops-to-deceive-courts-about-stingray/Excerpt:
Emails Show Feds Asking Florida Cops to Deceive Judges
Police in Florida have, at the request of the U.S. Marshals Service, been deliberately deceiving judges and defendants about their use of a controversial surveillance tool to track suspects, according to newly obtained emails.
At the request of the Marshals Service, the officers using so-called stingrays have been routinely telling judges, in applications for warrants, that they obtained knowledge of a suspect’s location from a “confidential source” rather than disclosing that the information was gleaned using a stingray.
The U.S. Marshals Service did not respond to a call for comment.
The release of the emails showing interference by a state attorney and the U.S. Marshals Service comes two weeks after agents from the Marshals Service took the extraordinary measure of seizing other public documents related to stingrays from the Sarasota Police Department in order to prevent the ACLU from examining them.
The documents, which were responsive to a FOIA request seeking information about Sarasota’s use of the devices, had been set aside for ACLU attorneys to examine in person. But hours before they arrived for the appointment to view the documents, someone from the Marshals Service swooped in to seize the documents and cart them to another location.