Oops is now a DEA term

Edward Snowden has released more government embarrassment, according to this article by Herbert Dyer, Jr. in AllVoices:

Black Agenda Report managing editor Bruce A. Dixon has done it again.
In an eye-opening radio commentary called A Smoking Gun: Online DEA Manuals Show How Feds Use NSA Spy Data, Train Local Cops to Construct False Chains of Evidence, and which may be heard or read in last week's Black Agenda Report, Dixon directs our attention to whole “chunks of Edward Snowden's voluminous revelations about government spying on civilians”.
Yes, yes ... we've known for some time now that the government, the NSA particularly, has been spying on practically anybody with a cellphone and/or an email address. No news there, right?
But did you know that the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal law enforcement agency tasked with spearheading this nation-state's failed war on drugs, has routinely directed illegal NSA surveillance data to local police agencies throughout these United States? That's the DEA, not the NSA.
Dixon informs us that some of Edward Snowden's leaked information details with almost painful specificity the actual, real-time, step-by-step procedures used to entrap drug “offenders”. This information may be found in the actual DEA training manuals leaked by Snowden, and which are now available for perusal by ordinary folk like you and like me.
The revelations contained in these manuals are nothing less than jaw-dropping, and would not be believed by anybody if it was not right there in black and white.
To wit: DEA agents are taught and encouraged not merely to show local police departments how to lie about chains of evidence and sources, but how to purposely violate the law and then cover their tracks. All of this is done with only one purpose, one goal in mind: to successfully prosecute “thousands or tens of thousands of cases every year in order to fill the cells of the US prison state with drug defendants,” writes Dixon.
Again, the manuals may be found at Muckrock.org, a site funded by the Sunlight Foundation, whose sole purpose is “to assist journalists and citizens to make and disseminate the results of Freedom of Information Act requests from Federal, state, and local agencies.”
Dixon characterizes these manuals as absolute proof-positive of “an amoral, out-of-control police regime respecting no Constitution and no laws.” As stated, per these manuals, DEA agents are told up front that much of the evidence they collect, and the methods and means by which it is collected, is unconstitutional on its face. But they are shown how to conceal their unconstitutional ways and means (but not the evidence obtained thereby) from “prosecutors, judges, and, above all, from the public, some of which is still under the quaint notion that there are laws even cops and prosecutors must obey.” The manuals state directly that the illegally obtained information is to be used to build and line up knowingly false and interlocking chains of evidence, with which no prosecutor, judge, or jury could possibly argue.
This shameless regime of railroading poor people into prison shows us how all levels of America's "law enforcement" agencies, national, state and local, use the labyrinthine and overwhelming reach and power of the Federal intelligence apparatus to falsely convict and put away for decades mainly black and brown low-level drug offenders at the behest and on behalf of an ever-privatizing and profiteering prison-industrial complex.
Then Dixon veers off into the critics of Snowden, particularly Snowden's high-profile black critics, who insist that he is a traitor who must himself be prosecuted rather than a whistle-blower who's been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Dixon zeroes in on MSNBC's talking heads Joy-Ann Reid and Melissa Harris-Perry. (I would add a third MSNBC host, the redoubtable Reverend Al Sharpton, and call it the MSNBC Trio.)
Dixon also does not like what he calls congressional “buffoons” like Representative Jim Clyburn and others, who argue, with no evidence at all, that Snowden is simply trying to embarrass this first black president or, worse, that his revelations have nothing whatever to do with black people and their, yes, always desperate but “always getting better” lives.
Dixon effortlessly refutes and then dismisses these black Obama apologists by noting:
Chronic over-policing only happens to black and brown people, and chiefly the poorest of those. Blacks and brown people are the majority of drug defendants, charged with stiffer offenses and given longer sentences than white drug defendants. Illegal surveillance, turned into illegal evidence, backed up by an officially condoned web of lies about how that evidence was obtained, have long been a crucial element in the unfolding of the prison state to enclose poor black and brown communities.
No. Snowden is nobody's traitor. Well, maybe. He has betrayed the cops, hasn't he? But not black people, says Dixon.
And, even if Snowden turns out to be a spy, Dixon concludes, he's spying for us, the people, all of the people, and not for the surveillance state or this mass-incarceration nation.

Rico says this may be hyperbole, or Dixon may be right, and Snowden gets the Nobel rather than life in prison...