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Re:FBI operated 23 Tor-hidden child porn sites, deployed mal... by danjoc on Friday November 11, 2016 @10:46AM (#12931636)
>FBI Special Agent Jeff Tarpinian admitted in court that the agency “relocated two servers to an FBI facility here in Omaha and we continued to let those child pornography run"

http://disinfo.com/2016/01/why-did-the-fbi-operate-a-child-p...

In context, it sounds even harder to justify.

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Re:FBI operated 23 Tor-hidden child porn sites, deployed mal... by openasocket on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:50AM (#12932265)
This article is about Freedom Hosting, that link is talking about Operation Pacifier. Those are two completely different operations that took places years apart, by different agents.
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Re:FBI operated 23 Tor-hidden child porn sites, deployed mal... by danjoc on Friday November 11, 2016 @12:53PM (#12932731)
It seems that was a very slippery slope then.
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