2/20/2026 at 6:16:12 AM
To be fair, if you’re developing assets in the criminal world they’re going to tend to be criminals doing crimes. Asking them to stop doing crimes while they work with you is just asking for them to blow cover.That doesn’t mean we don’t mitigate harm. But the headline premise per se isn’t wrong.
by JumpCrisscross
2/20/2026 at 8:16:27 AM
That would be interesting case law, for a buyer to sue for damages.Same scenario: If the government was undercover for scammers and in turn scamming people.
While the govt would receive persecution immunity, there is no immunity for damages.
by codeddesign
2/20/2026 at 7:49:59 AM
To be fair, why should they "develop assets in the criminal world"?by coldtea
2/20/2026 at 9:06:06 AM
Asset as in, someone that tells you otherwise secret or unobtainable information. That’s one of the ways the FBI and similar organisations works to gain intelligence on criminal enterprises, with the goal of ultimately bringing them to justice.by mft_
2/20/2026 at 8:05:05 AM
To paraphrase Willie Sutton’s probably apocryphal answer to the question of why he robbed banks, ‘Because that’s where the money is.’by sydbarrett74