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An FBI ‘Asset’ Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years (www.wired.com)
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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

The judge presiding over the case, Colleen McMahon, didn't entirely accept those arguments from the prosecution. “I’m somewhat skeptical that the government, having infiltrated this operation, had to let it go on for as long as it did,” she said in the hearing.

McMahon also dismissed any distinction between whether the informant was a “moderator” or an "administrator" of Incognito. “I don't care what his title was,” she said. “He was an FBI asset.”

We can ~~kill a few people~~ break a few eggs, as long as we catch our man. - every cop