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If they throw out things like due process and reasonable doubt they can do a whole lot with the data they've collected.

That may sound hyperbolic but I hope it's obvious to most people by now that it's not.



They can do parallel construction or use "undercover" informants etc.


Fuzzy Dunlop (it's from The Wire). Their CI was a tennis ball (with an unauthorized camera inside).




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