Ex-federal official convicted in child porn case

[alp227]

Source: AP

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) —A federal jury in Omaha has convicted a former acting director of cyber security at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of several child pornography counts.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for Nebraska says 56-year-old Timothy DeFoggi, of Germantown, Maryland, is the sixth person to be convicted as part of the investigation targeting three child pornography websites —including one based and administered from Nebraska.

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[daggahead]

1. I am not defending this guy, but ...

Couldn't the N-S-A totally fabricate browser histories, IP address logs and basically anything they want to present as "evidence" in something like this?

If he is guilty, I hope he has fun in lock-up.

[Massacure]

2. Almost certainly. I doubt they would though.

The FBI could probably go rogue like that on their own without the NSA's help, and it would probably be a lot less risky for them to do it on their own.

There is a good example in Delaware where a bunch of prosecutors and defendants got screwed over after it was revealed that one of the detectives in the state drug lab was fabricating evidence.

[cstanleytech]

3. Just because its possible doesnt mean it happened so unless you have proof

its pretty much speculation with as much weight as say the talk that the moon landing was fake.