I’m missing the reference what’s it from?
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I’m missing the reference what’s it from?
Well, here's the explanation: https://www.space.com/41852-sunspot-solar-observatory-opening-after-criminal-investigation.html
"AURA has been cooperating with an ongoing law enforcement investigation of criminal activity that occurred at Sacramento Peak," AURA representatives wrote in a statement Sunday (Sept. 16). "During this time, we became concerned that a suspect in the investigation potentially posed a threat to the safety of local staff and residents. For this reason, AURA temporarily vacated the facility and ceased science activities at this location."
Who's buying it?
"We recognize that the lack of communications while the facility was vacated was concerning and frustrating for some," Sunday's AURA statement added. "However, our desire to provide additional information had to be balanced against the risk that, if spread at the time, the news would alert the suspect and impede the law enforcement investigation. That was a risk we could not take."
You would think that the complete evacuation of the site might have alerted the suspect. Just sayin'.
The chief observer told agents that only one person had access to the facility around the time of the child porn being accessed: a janitor who started working at the facility a year ago and cleans for a couple of hours a day. The janitor’s parents own the janitorial contract for the observatory.
Agents say the janitor has a key and “unlimited access” to the building.
According to the search warrant, agents seized the laptop.
Agents say that when the janitor returned the next morning, unaware of the seizure, he claimed to be “missing some cleaning supplies” and asked if anyone had been in the office.
The chief observer told agents the janitor began complaining about “lax security” at the facility and claimed someone was breaking into the facility at night to steal internet service and toilet paper.
As time went on, agents say the janitor’s actions grew increasingly “frantic” and he continually approached the chief observer with questions and comments about missing items.
“(The janitor) had continued to look feverishly through the facility and continued to make comments about the lax security,” an agent wrote in the search warrant.
Agents say the janitor mentioned that decoy security cameras “were a joke” and it was only “a matter of time” until the facility “got hit.”
- As with any child pornography case, your place is going to be gutted, so it would make sense that the agents were climbing the transmission towers to confirm the source of the transmission. This is a top of a mountain, after all. The only source of internet is going to be over air wave, not fiber optic line lol.
Hence the black hawks, men in suits, and lots of spectacular theatrics. But, it makes sense. The janitor committed a cyber crime on federal property, and the agency best equipped to handle that would be the FBI.
Don't get so caught up in potential conspiracies that you miss the obvious. If this was a matter of national security involving outer space or a secret government satellite, it would not be the FBI that handled the matter. Jurisdiction in that case would fall under the military, probably the Air Force. Everything regarding why the FBI handled this case makes sense:
Just sayin', if it were some super secret satellite, UFO related activity that the government wanted to keep quiet, or a spy plane the air force wanted to keep under wraps, it would not be the FBI handling the case. It would be another unknown agency, and it would be a hell of a lot more discrete than flying in with black hawks, shutting down a site, and taping off all access. It would be super quiet, super discrete, and absolutely no one would know about it.
- The observatory sits on federally owned land where state and local law enforcement doesn't have jurisdiction.
- The FBI does have jurisdiction on federally owned lands.
- The crime is cyber related, and doesn't fit the specialty of the US Forest Service Law Enforcement agency.
- The crime is a specialty of the FBI.
- The FBI doesn't have offices everywhere, so transport by helicopter makes sense, especially to the top of a mountain.
- As with any child pornography case, your place is going to be gutted, so it would make sense that the agents were climbing the transmission towers to confirm the source of the transmission. This is a top of a mountain, after all. The only source of internet is going to be over air wave, not fiber optic line lol.
Why would you need to climb a tower to confirm the source of someone's internet connection?
Update 9/20/18: According to recently unsealed FBI documents, the investigation was directed at a janitor of the facility who allegedly downloaded and shared child pornography using the observatory's wireless internet.
Aliens, bro. Aliens.
I'm sorry but the FBI doesn't chopper in, close down a multi-million dollar observatory, shut down an entire post office, climb antennas, etc... all to catch a janitor downloading kiddy porn. They could have just driven up, walked a guy in there and arrested the guy.
I'm sorry but the FBI doesn't chopper in, close down a multi-million dollar observatory, shut down an entire post office, climb antennas, etc... all to catch a janitor downloading kiddy porn. They could have just driven up, walked a guy in there and arrested the guy.
I'm sorry but the FBI doesn't chopper in, close down a multi-million dollar observatory, shut down an entire post office, climb antennas, etc... all to catch a janitor downloading kiddy porn. They could have just driven up, walked a guy in there and arrested the guy.
I'm sorry but the FBI doesn't chopper in, close down a multi-million dollar observatory, shut down an entire post office, climb antennas, etc... all to catch a janitor downloading kiddy porn. They could have just driven up, walked a guy in there and arrested the guy.
See if someone had set up a cantenna and was leeching the internet there?Why would you need to climb a tower to confirm the source of someone's internet connection?
See if someone had set up a cantenna and was leeching the internet there?