[adventured]

The only example I'm aware of, regarding your claim about the FBI operating a site for months, was not in fact the FBI continuing to operate a CP site. In that instance, they kept allowing attempts at signing up to access CP, they did not keep allowing access to the content; the FBI clarified that point when the story came out.

[FireBeyond]

I appreciate the clarification - I was not aware of that detail, which is an important distinction to make.

[EdHominem]

I wasn't referring to the quantity of illegal images, merely that the FBI had burned its credibility by playing with the NSA: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/nsa-dea-fbi-snowden-doj-oig...

At that, one has to assume that they "planted" the image in question because they've proven their willingness to play dirty.