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What baffles me is why the FBI would shut it down and let this information out when they could have just sat there and collected information on crime after crim
by ianstallings 13y ago
What baffles me is why the FBI would shut it down and let this information out when they could have just sat there and collected information on crime after crime. Was the impetus because of the violence alluded to in communications? I know that if they are watching the mafia and they intercept a message about a homicide they have, in the past, notified the intended target.
Either way, intriguing story. If it's true he's really up shit's creek. And I have no problem with that, if it's true. An old 'hood motto: I'm not the law, break it, I don't care. But when you get caught, remember that I don't care.
- diydsp 13y ago'tis the season to justify wire-snooping. Congress closes session in a month or so.
- moeadham 13y agoHow are you sure this has not already happened?
- ianstallings 13y agoI'm not but usually in a case where a bunch of suspects are rounded up they will announce the sting operation publicly to make sure everyone knows they are on the job. I assumed they didn't because the FBI was built on publicity and it's part of their institution. But you might be right, they may be doing this to just shake the tree or they've already moved on people.
- smacktoward 13y agoThey want the big fish, not the little fishes that school around him. Is there a bigger fish in the Silk Road story than DPR?
- notahacker 13y agoThe FBI's paymasters are ultimately elected by the public, who mostly prefer the FBI to pursue one high profile kingpin reportedly linked with violent crime rather than all of their neighbours who made the mistake of experimenting with online drug orders.