[Phantom Lord]

I am still a little uneasy with federal officals lying about who they are.

[SoDak]

Not me. I say good work.

[Husker24]

Havent these people realized that all 14 or 13 year old girls on the internet are FBI agents.

[sinclair]

Just don’t solicit children for sex. No problem.

[Restorer]

I'm uneasy about it, too.

But I can live with it depending on the specifics of how the contacts are handled. I can see it very easily turning from a sting into active entrapment.

One good point is that presumably all contacts are precisely documented.

[AppyPappy]

I am still a little uneasy with federal officals lying about who they are.

Well, have a Coke and a smile and you'll feel better.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I am still a little uneasy with federal officals lying about who they are.

Mmmmm. And it sound as if it was a fairly expensive investigation to boot.

Either way, the right guy is in irons.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I wouldn't say that I'm 100% comfortable with FBI agents posing as other people in the internet, but people who try to lure little girls into having sex are a serious danger to society and they need to be stopped.

I'm sure the FBI has to be really careful about how they approach something like this. Cases have been thrown out because the judge ruled that the FBI was engaging in entrapment. The FBI has to be able to prove that the perp was actively seeking a meeting and wasn't just being led on.

I personally don't buy the entrapment argument in a case like this. Even if the agent posing as a young girl was trying to initiate a meeting, a guy should have the discretion to say 'No, this is wrong, I shouldn't be doing this.'

[VRWCmember]

I am still a little uneasy with federal officals lying about who they are.

Law enforcement officials, Intelligence and Security agents, etc. often have to disguise their identities in order to apprehend drug dealers, smugglers, terrorists, kidnappers, rapists, serial killers, and other sorts of low-lifes -- including this pervert. I'm glad he encountered a federal official lying about who he was rather than an impressionable and gullible little 13-yr old girl starved for fatherly affection who would turn to a stranger in hopes of attention.

[ThinkDifferent]

I am still a little uneasy with federal officals lying about who they are

Me too. It's good that this guy is in prison, but the ends don't always justify the means. In this case it doesn't sound like they crossed the line to entrapment, but they got pretty close. Actually it may depend on the specific contents of the chat logs, which I *really* don't want to see.

[M. Thatcher]

I am still a little uneasy with federal officals lying about who they are.

You are kidding, right?