<story><title>DEA redacts tactic that&apos;s more secret than parallel construction</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/feb/04/method-so-acceptable-dea-cant-even-tell-you-its-na/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zach</author><text>This is probably referring to &amp;quot;SOD tips&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;SOD tip-offs&amp;quot;, where intelligence-community information is &amp;quot;laundered&amp;quot; through a source that provides a tip to investigators, as discussed in this Reuters article from last year:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reuters.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>DEA redacts tactic that&apos;s more secret than parallel construction</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/feb/04/method-so-acceptable-dea-cant-even-tell-you-its-na/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pstuart</author><text>The DEA is evil. They operate under a pretense of &amp;quot;reducing harm&amp;quot; yet are actively trying to create more crime to validate their existence. In the course of doing so they create far more harm than they ostensibly prevent.</text></comment>