FBI 'Asset' Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years
28 points by jbegley
by JumpCrisscross
2 subcomments
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.