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Facilitating the sale of drugs is quite different than if he's accused of trying to (successfully or unsuccessfully) kill 6 people - which is much more extreme,

• krapp 13y ago
  Cartel bosses, gang members and drug dealers have been known to have their perceived enemies killed to defend their money, territory or evade capture. Let's not pretend that 'facilitating the sale of drugs' at that scale is an necessarily nonviolent business. And besides, what does the government have to gain that's worth the risk of damaging their case if its discovered they fabricated evidence?
  • loceng 13y ago
    RIght, so it's an easy assumption to accept - and no assumptions being made. And do you really think the government level / agency that is in charge of justice would have any level of 'clearance' towards the agency that would be fabricating evidence? The NSA has been lying to congress for years, as an easy example.
    • krapp 13y ago
      While I believe a conspiracy like that is possible, I don't believe it to be plausible for the simple fact that DPR isn't worth the risk. The government doesn't need to paint drug dealers or black market operators in a bad light, and unless they fabricated their entire case against him, they probably have ample evidence to put him behind bars even if these screenshots were to be thrown out (supporting evidence for the attempted hits don't rest on those after all, they'll have logs and testimony as well.) They've already broken Silk Road and everyone already knows they can attack the deep web, and that Tor and Bitcoin aren't perfect bulwarks against the State.