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> "He had a stellar, 15-year career of taking bribes and withholding assets from the DEA, and had flawless execution except for this one blip." FTFTFA I expect
by stephengillie 11y ago
> "He had a stellar, 15-year career of taking bribes and withholding assets from the DEA, and had flawless execution except for this one blip." FTFTFA
I expect that this agent has been a bad apple for some time, and has only recently got lazy, or maybe technology was better than he thought it was.
- amelius 11y agobad apple, or simply corrupted?
- stephengillie 11y agoHe probably didn't start off corrupted, but found no real reason to be noble years ago and got disillusioned.
- fapjacks 11y agoHe almost certainly was just too lazy or too stupid. I don't mean unintelligent here. I mean that he didn't give it enough thought, either because he is lazy, or because he didn't know he should have been more careful. The technology those people use isn't magic, and for someone on the inside, it is completely trivial to circumvent. It can't have just been a matter of misjudging the technological capabilities of his peers. And I completely agree that he has probably been dirty for years and years and only recently got caught. People are either dirty, or they're not. I have a very hard time believing that people can slowly become dirty cops over time. That kind of moral compass is hard to recalibrate outside of some kind of psychological trauma. I mean, based purely on anecdotal evidence, of course.