Or, okay, maybe not "told the police to lie". Maybe just "told the police to stretch the definition of words like they're made out of silly putty".
The summary: there's devices that law enforcement and anti-terrorist units can use to spoof cell-phone towers so as to learn the location of cell phones; one of the more popular brands is Stingray. It turns out that feds instructed police to claim that that any information they got from a Stingray came from a "confidential source". Now technically it might be considered a "confidential source", in that it's definitely a source, and that in trying to keep it secret they're treating it as confidential. However, anyone hearing/reading "confidential source" is going to think that means a human source.
The Stingray has recently been the cause for other legal tomfoolery, when Florida police decided that a non-disclosure agreement with the Stingray's manufacturer trumped the 4th amendment and allowed them to use the Stingray without a warrant.
The summary: there's devices that law enforcement and anti-terrorist units can use to spoof cell-phone towers so as to learn the location of cell phones; one of the more popular brands is Stingray. It turns out that feds instructed police to claim that that any information they got from a Stingray came from a "confidential source". Now technically it might be considered a "confidential source", in that it's definitely a source, and that in trying to keep it secret they're treating it as confidential. However, anyone hearing/reading "confidential source" is going to think that means a human source.
The Stingray has recently been the cause for other legal tomfoolery, when Florida police decided that a non-disclosure agreement with the Stingray's manufacturer trumped the 4th amendment and allowed them to use the Stingray without a warrant.
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