From today:

The subversion of due process in America

August 12, 2013

The Obama administration is using information obtained through its illegal surveillance programs to target Americans for criminal investigations unrelated to terrorism.

According to Reuters reports published last week, information gathered by the National Security Agency (NSA)—including electronic wiretaps and phone records—is being shared with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), a division of the Justice Department. A shadowy interagency unit that includes the DEA, the FBI and the NSA, called the Special Operations Division (SOD), uses this information to target US citizens for investigation and prosecution, including for narcotics crimes....

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/12/surv-a12.html


The Reuters report referenced above:

Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans

August 5, 2013

A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.

Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges....

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805


So now Obama's given us a new alphabet agency of boogeymen--the SOD. Seems appropriate.