Posted on 11/11/2016 11:45:02 AM PST by Theoria
The FBI reportedly ran 23 child pornography websites to try to ensnare users, according to an affidavit from the agency acquired by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
It was previously reported that the FBI had seized and maintained the child pornography website Playpen to install malware on its users’ computers. The malware was intended to help law enforcement gain users' identities and apprehend them.
The FBI had not revealed that it also operated the 23 other child porn websites until the new affidavit, first reported on by Ars Technica.
According to the documents, the websites were “dedicated to the advertisement of child pornography, the discussion of matters pertinent to child sexual abuse, including methods and tactics offenders used to abuse children, as well as methods and tactics offenders used to avoid law enforcement detection while perpetuating online child sexual exploitation crimes.”
"In the normal course of the operation of a web site, a user sends 'request data' to the web site in order to access that site. While Websites 1-23 operate at a government facility, such request data associated with a user's actions on Websites 1-23 will be collected," the affidavit read.
“That paragraph alone doesn't quite say the FBI is operating them,” Fred Jennings, a cybercrime lawyer, told Ars Technica.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Your tax dollars at work.
Oh, beautiful.
They missed @clintonemail.com......
How many were on Weiner’s laptop?
Subway Jared is in jail after being raided by the FBI and Weiner is riding a horse at a Sex addict camp
Will the ACLU side with Nambla and their ilk?
Breaking the law to enforce the law?
I’m all for catching filthy pedophiles.
So we know that we have at least 23 child pervs at the FBI....triple that if it was a 24 hour job.
Playpen??
Law enforcement routinely sell drugs to buyers and then arrest the buyers.
So yes, that’s correct.
Mixed feelings. Not diggin’ the East German approach, on the other hand, despise people who like kids sexually.
How often the ISP for the Besta Pizza joint and Comet Ping Pong come up in data?
I’m 97 years old. Anybody under 80 is a child to me.
Me too. I hate child molesters. On the other hand, I do wish Feds would find ‘cleaner hands’ ways of getting these guys.
I’m all for catching filthy pedophiles.
This.
This not not a matter of someone accidentally going to the site. The feds have to go to great lengths to prove intent.
And it is easy to do. These pervs are relentless.
Was Pedo, er, I mean Podesta snared?.................
I wonder how many New York politicians they caught?
BULLSH!T. This was all part of the podesta pedohiple ring which is about to break wide open any minute now.
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