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Yes I though that mention would lead to some espionage investigation or something. Perhaps the whole "drug bust" thing was a farce designed to search for eviden
by pmalynin 11y ago
Yes I though that mention would lead to some espionage investigation or something. Perhaps the whole "drug bust" thing was a farce designed to search for evidence of some other covert activity.
- eric_h 11y agoI think, perhaps you're giving them too much credit, especially given that they stated that once they'd found no evidence of a grow op, they switched to searching for evidence of personal use (the absurdity of which is a whole other discussion). My guess is that they did no homework at all before performing this raid; they just built a spreadsheet of gardeners, started checking trash cans and raided the first house that had a positive field test.
- golergka 11y agoOr thry had another reason for the search entirely which they didn't want to make public, so just switched stupid excuse for another one?
- eric_h 11y agoMention the CIA and the conspiracy theories just come flying in :P. I'm more inclined to side with both Occam's and Hanlon's razor in this case. Further, if we had data on the number of false positives these "4/20" raids turned up (which, per the article, seems like it could be quite a task to produce), we could come to a reasonable statistical certainty either way.
- dragonwriter 11y agoWere that the case, presumably it would have been a federal agency like the FBI or DEA carrying out the cover raid, not the local Sheriff's department, and it wouldn't have been part of a regularly-scheduled annual publicity-effort raids conducted on 4/20. Well, unless you get into a fairly deep conspiracy theory.
- Wingman4l7 11y agoSeems like overkill -- couldn't the CIA just do a nice quiet blag bag operation, breaking into their apartment during the day while they were away at work?