The Department of Homeland Security has a program called “Overt Human Intelligence Collection Program” that allows agents to circumvent due process requirements of questioning individuals without their lawyers present. The program allows them to interview anyone, including prisoners, where the due process issues begin to be muddled. Employees of the prisons where the interviews took place demanded that the program pay for legal liability insurance, as they knew the program was a violation of the spirit of the law, at minimum.
The program empowers agents to conduct interviews with “willing individuals” without lawyers presence, under the guise of being for the purpose of collecting intelligence for security reasons. An unnamed employee for one of the prisons said the operation “is shady” and “runs like a corrupt government.”
The program appears to be more of a shakedown operation to intimidate people than anything else. When the DHS comes a calling, offering to have a voluntary interview with someone, you know they understand that refusal could lead to serious charges coming their way. The nature of the relationship alone implies such threats, as the DHS is a large government organization with the authority to charge people with anything from extortion to sedition.
In an age where anyone other than a DNC-marked human can clearly see the level of political bias in the most lethal branches of government, including our own military, means restraint of power is not something a human being sitting in a jail cell can much believe in.
The program is a classic sophistic assault on the spirit of truth, finding a grey zone to effectively violate the 5th amendment, the right to due process, for purposes that are more often about DNC interests than American ones.
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