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You forgot to mention having the opportunities to electronically surveil his activities while he's physically located in the United States, to attempt to possib
by numbsafari 9y ago
You forgot to mention having the opportunities to electronically surveil his activities while he's physically located in the United States, to attempt to possibly catch him soliciting a plant, bragging to a stripper while drunk, or attempt to catch him in some other questionable activities that they could use as the basis of an arrest or further warrants without having to play their hand as to what they think he's actually guilty of (and therefore being able to possibly turn him as an informant).
There's a brazillion reasons not to arrest someone the minute you think you've got them.
- tptacek 9y ago"Basis of an arrest"? They had an arrest warrant. The complaint I'm addressing is "why did they not arrest him sooner???".
- numbsafari 9y agoI'm agreeing with you (go figure?). The point I was making RE: "basis of an arrest" is that if you wait for him to do something stupid, like get arrested by local LEO for drunk and disorderly, that gives you cover to approach him in an interrogation and threaten him with prosecution over the malware... unless he agrees to be a witness/informant. Because he's in with local LEO for something innocuous, there's cover. In the end, they indict him for the malware, which pretty much ruins him from that perspective. Or, perhaps, they already figured he wasn't worth using and it's not above a US Attorney to go after someone well known in order to further their own career...