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Using illegal methods is bad. Catching bad guys is good. Using illegal methods to catch bad guys? That's a much more complicated question than you make it out t
by LLWM 11y ago
Using illegal methods is bad. Catching bad guys is good. Using illegal methods to catch bad guys? That's a much more complicated question than you make it out to be.
- grkvlt 11y agoYeah, I'm also surprised at the amount of dislike and hatred for parallel construction as a methodology. When it's Alan Turing and stopping the Germans from realising an Enigma message has been read by the global surveillance apparatus of the Allies and been broken, by sending out a Catalina to look for a U-Boat at just the right time, that's great and an uplifting exemplar of the way things should be. When it's an email that's been read by the NSA surveilling Internet data, that is then used to tell the DEA to go and stop a car at just the right time to catch a cartel drug courier and murderer, that's not?
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoOnly if they catch themselves for being bad guys as well and are fairly punishing under the laws they broke as a non-LEO related individual would've been.
- forrestthewoods 11y agoNo it's not. It's bad. Plain and simple. The ends do not justify the means.