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Re:Prosecutors halt vast, likely illegal DEA wiretap operation by x5n1 on Friday February 26, 2016 @07:56PM (#11185496)
I don't know I can't find it in my conscience to justify scumbags that are well known to be scumbags but use criminal syndicates to hide their crimes. For instance the mafia uses smaller gangsters to commit crimes and then hide behind those. I can't get myself to condone that, there is nothing to stop people like that then through totalitarian systems.
Re:Prosecutors halt vast, likely illegal DEA wiretap operation by Godel_unicode on Friday February 26, 2016 @08:04PM (#11185532)
The situation you describe is the precise reason that the United States has the RICO act[1]. Prove that someone is involved in a scumbag organization (insert legalese for "scumbag" here)and they're guilty just like the person who committed the crime.

Our system, while admittedly imperfect, prioritizes protecting the innocent over punishing the guilty (obviously it's more complicated than that, but that's the core)

1-http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/content/rico-act.html