Anti Federalist
03-11-2011, 01:55 PM
How Blogger Stung Undercover Federal Sex Sting
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/how-blogger-stung-undercover-federal-sting-031962
MARCH 11--A year-long Department of Homeland Security undercover operation targeting prospective “sex tourists” was torpedoed last month after a blogger unwittingly stumbled upon a sleazy web site set up by federal agents and engineered a reverse sting on investigators she mistook for pedophiles, The Smoking Gun has learned.
As detailed Wednesday by TSG, federal agents early last year launched a web site for the “Precious Treasure Holiday Company,” which offered to arrange trips to Canada from Cleveland, Ohio for customers seeking sexual encounters with children. The site--online at precioustreasureholidaycompany.com--succeeded in enticing several suspects to either arrange or explicitly discuss via e-mail trips for illicit encounters.
Last month, however, the DHS undercover site was abruptly taken offline by the Massachusetts-based web hosting firm on whose servers it was housed. Amazingly, the company was unaware that “Precious Treasure Holiday Company,” which it has “suspended,” was the centerpiece of the DHS operation
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/how-blogger-stung-undercover-federal-sting-031962
MARCH 11--A year-long Department of Homeland Security undercover operation targeting prospective “sex tourists” was torpedoed last month after a blogger unwittingly stumbled upon a sleazy web site set up by federal agents and engineered a reverse sting on investigators she mistook for pedophiles, The Smoking Gun has learned.
As detailed Wednesday by TSG, federal agents early last year launched a web site for the “Precious Treasure Holiday Company,” which offered to arrange trips to Canada from Cleveland, Ohio for customers seeking sexual encounters with children. The site--online at precioustreasureholidaycompany.com--succeeded in enticing several suspects to either arrange or explicitly discuss via e-mail trips for illicit encounters.
Last month, however, the DHS undercover site was abruptly taken offline by the Massachusetts-based web hosting firm on whose servers it was housed. Amazingly, the company was unaware that “Precious Treasure Holiday Company,” which it has “suspended,” was the centerpiece of the DHS operation