Posted on 05/30/2013 7:38:28 PM PDT by null and void
As late as last year, the FBI ran a child pornography operation in an attempt to nab its customers. The service ran for two weeks "while attempting to identify more than 5,000 customers, according to agent's statements to the court."
Court records indicate the site continued to distribute child pornography online while under FBI control; the Seattle-based special agent, a specialist in online crimes against children, detailed the investigation earlier this month in a statement to the court.
The methods used in the child pornography ring depart from traditional investigations, "historically, child pornography investigations stem from tips made to law enforcement, interactions with undercover officers posing as customers or reviews of documentation seized during searches of child porn clearinghouses like the one recently raided in Nebraska."
The Bureau seized a website on November 16, 2012. It operated until it was shut down on December 2 and at the time, it had more than 5,600 users and 24,000 posts. "At least 10,000 photos of children being posed nude, raped or otherwise abused were broadcast through the site."
Discussions ranged from how to avoid detection by police and "how to lure a child in my car." Agents were unable to identify users through the service records, so the site was allowed to continue in order to gain more information about the patrons.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
If it got me the name and address of the rapist, I might be okay with it...
Sorry, but that’s how, by definition, undercover works.
Undercovers in drug gangs allow drug sales to continue while they gather evidence, with all the human tragedy that entails.
Undercovers in terrorist groups have to allow some terrorist attacks to go forward while they acquire intelligence. People die, are tortured or maimed.
To be effective undercovers in pedophile groups agents have to appear to participate in their activities, and that means some pedophile activity will go forward during their undercover period that they could in theory have stopped.
In a famous WWII incident, Churchill had to allow Coventry to be bombed without warning, because warning the inhabitants would have alerted the Germans that the Brits had broken their codes, whereupon they would change them and a great many more people would die due to the lack of intelligence.
I quite agree it’s a very slippery slope, but if undercover or human intelligence is ever to be gathered, it requires allowing some evil to go forward in hopes of preventing greater future evil.
Oh, like the FBI running the 1993 terrorist cell which ended up bombing the Towers in 1993 after the FBI did everything for the planning except provide the explosives, which the terrorists apparently had little trouble buying elsewhere? Riiight, and the FBI is so righteous that they would never run a false flag op, right?
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