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by SkyBelow 2297 days ago
There are known cases of the FBI running such sites and sharing such images. In general, people have not been outraged by the FBI's actions and the FBI agents themselves are fine doing so, even though by the very logic that makes the material illegal they are harming the children in doing so. This is part of a trend I've noticed where some portion of the population is far more interested in catching and punishing the bad guy than protecting the innocent and when it comes to having to choose one or the other, willingly sacrifice the innocent to punish the bad guy.

Not the CIA, but should be close enough.