DHS Sex-Sting blown by Blogger (cause it was amateurish)

**Alundil** · 03-11-11, 04:22 PM

How Blogger Stung Undercover Federal Sex Sting | The Smoking Gun

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.

While expressing regret for inadvertently derailing the DHS undercover site, the woman said she could not understand why federal agents did not clue in the web hosting firm as to who was behind the “Precious Treasure Holiday Company” web site. Or why DHS did not simply place the site on a server it owned or better controlled (and to which it would easily have been able to mask its connection).

“I can’t figure out why they didn’t anticipate that someone might find the site and have a problem with it,” the computer programmer said.

**DJ Ms. White** · 03-11-11, 08:09 PM

lol

**SpiritOfF1re** · 03-11-11, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

lol

**CivilWars** · 03-11-11, 08:23 PM

This comment from the article is even funnier.

DHS opened this site? Why would they need to look any further than the pedophiles, hired to pat down dangerous children, in our airports? Are we sure that the site wasn't an in-house travel agency for DHS employees?