New Mexico observatory closure stemmed from FBI child porn probe
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He told the feds what he found on the desktop was "not good," and that it appeared to be child porn.
The search warrant states the feds then monitored all the IP addresses and found the exact time child porn was being sent out.
It matched only one employee: a janitor.
Once that janitor realized his computer was no longer there, the director says he "feverishly started looking through the facility," started making comments about "lax security at the facility," said it was "only a matter of time before the facility got hit, and he "believed there was a serial killer in the area" and that killer might enter the facility and execute someone.
The director says that's when he became concerned for his personal safety, and along with the agencies that operate the facility decided to evaluate it and shut it down. "
- future Congressional House Budget Committee hearing
One explanation I suppose.
I think the stranger parts were that they shut down surrounding areas/homes and even the local post office. That still to me makes no sense with just a child porn ring.
> "There was a Black Hawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers but nobody would tell us anything," Sheriff House explained
Not to mention, ELEVEN days because of a laptop seeding child porn?
I'm usually the first to assume the non-conspiracy option, but this doesn't even come close to passing the sniff test.
A lot of military aircraft were relocated around the country because of the hurricane.
Plus, the average person couldn’t tell a Blackhawk helicopter from a Blackhawk hockey player.
When I was a kid, my cousin and I would lay in the grass in the front yard and watch the house across the street and basically spin the slightest shadow or bit of wind or what not into some tall tale for entertainment, being very serious and like we were actually onto some X Files style mystery and had the detective skills of Sherlock Holmes.
Most ancient Jews couldn’t have told you the difference between whales and fish, either. Some distinctions just don’t matter most of the time:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-mad...
If they did see a helicopter, it was probably a news copter and not a Blackhawk.