Ok, now I thought that the site was going to "out" closet Democrats. Perfectly natural mistake...after all, what else would one think with a URL "who's a rat dot com?"
Posted on 12/01/2006 1:36:22 AM PST by xtinct
WASHINGTON (AP) - Police and prosecutors are worried that a Web site claiming to identify more than 4,000 informants and undercover agents will cripple investigations and hang targets on witnesses.
The Web site, WhosaRat.com, first caught the attention of authorities after a Massachusetts man put it online and named a few dozen people as turncoats in 2004. Since then, it has grown into a clearinghouse for mug shots, court papers and rumors.
Federal prosecutors say the site was set up to encourage violence, and federal judges around the country were recently warned that witnesses in their courtrooms may be profiled online.
"My concern is making sure cooperators are adequately protected from retaliation," said Chief Judge Thomas Hogan, who alerted other judges in Washington's federal courthouse. He said he learned about the site from a federal judge in Maine.
The Web site is the latest unabashedly public effort to identify witnesses or discourage helping police. "Stop Snitching" T-shirts have been sold in cities around the country and popular hip-hop lyrics disparage or threaten people who help police.
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As you stated, either this guy is an idiotic liberal, or he himself is a criminal. Or both.
Ok, now I thought that the site was going to "out" closet Democrats. Perfectly natural mistake...after all, what else would one think with a URL "who's a rat dot com?"
What's this fetish of the left to leak any and everything that just might keep us safer?
This is a great use of the internet.
I am sure the rats will have a nice time,
if/when they end up in prison.
He's doing it the American way and making a profit at the expense of others.
Sean Bucci's had his own run-in with the law I see. Figures.
Seems like a sure cure for the rising Star Chamber activities of various prosecuters.
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