> Parallel construction only works if you've actually committed a crime and left evidence somewhere it can be plausibly found...
> if you're willing to fabricate evidence, you don't need to actually find any.
I am reminded of "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
Or, in the not famous enough "Don't talk to the police" lecture[1], the policeman telling how he can just surveil anyone for long enough and they will break the law, because, as the lawyer points out in his part of the talk, there are so many laws that it's basically impossible not to breach one at some point.
> if you're willing to fabricate evidence, you don't need to actually find any.
I am reminded of "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
Or, in the not famous enough "Don't talk to the police" lecture[1], the policeman telling how he can just surveil anyone for long enough and they will break the law, because, as the lawyer points out in his part of the talk, there are so many laws that it's basically impossible not to breach one at some point.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE