re: The FBI ran a child porn site to catch predators, and now the accused are crying

So how about posting these parts of the article?

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In February, the FBI obtained a search warrant from a federal judge in Virginia that allowed the agency to run Playpen for up to 30 days on a government-controlled server.

Agents hacked into the computers of people who logged into Playpen and accessed its content. Agents were not authorized to rummage through a computer's files or search other content, court records said.

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That's a little different than setting up a child porn website, which is what the defense is trying to imply.

Here is the sleaze that is trying to blame the government for him getting caught.

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Pawlak, 39, created a Playpen account in September 2014 and accessed the website more than 300 times, prosecutors said. In less than a second, agents knew what computer the Burleson man was using. That led to the two child pornography charges against him.

"Thereafter, Pawlak's interest in child pornography continued due to a perceived element of danger or excitement," Hoxie said in a court filing. "He preferred to view child pornography depicting girls that were between 7 and 11 years old."

The FBI found hundreds of child pornography images from his current and former work computers, records said. Pawlak is charged with receipt and possession of child pornography.

"Pawlak sought out child pornography, including images depicting young girls the same age as his own daughter being raped and sexually humiliated by grown men," Hoxie wrote for the government.

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This kind of sums it up for me.

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"The FBI took quick action to locate otherwise anonymous child predators and received the blessing of two federal judges to conduct the short-term, monitored operation that was authorized by a warrant," Assistant U.S. Attorney Jamie L. Hoxie said in court records filed in Pawlak's case.

During the operation, numerous users were identified, leading to child pornography charges against about 180 people nationwide, including those producing images, court records show. At least 49 children were rescued from abuse, authorities said.

"The reality the FBI faced was that taking down the Playpen site, without catching its thousands of users, would not stop the child-pornography problem," Hoxie wrote in a court filing.

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