I was just reading this article on deepdot about a longitiudinal operation run by the government accountability office in which they tried to illegally purchase firearms on both the clearnet (or "surface web" as the intel agencies refer to it) and dark web.
http://deepdot35wvmeyd5.onion/2018/01/20/gao-tried-illegally-buy-79-guns-online-failed/
Oddly enough, of 79 attempts apparently only a mere 7 were made on the dark web.
All of the clearnet attempts failed and of the 7 made via TOR only two purchases came to fruition in the form of firearms deliveries made via USPS that were intercepted anyway by the (presumably) unwitting United States Postal Inspection Service.
What always surprises me about articles like this is the almost sarcastic candor with which these "failures" by government agencies to succesfully commit crimes are addressed. The justificationis usually in line with evidences used in this article: unspecified claims made by Attorney General Jeff Sessions by, or, for instance: similar claims made by former attorney general Loretta Lynch (http://deepdot35wvmeyd5.onion/2016/01/12/do-people-really-buy-weapons-from-dark-web-markets/)
There are a number of things that I think a majority of these sorts of articles/analyses fail to take into account with their poo pooing of such government operations. Notably, that the vast majority of us would prefer illegal weapons not be sold via the dark net markets, so in tandum, would be supportive of government funded research geared to measure the degree at which such illegal sales are made.
Furthermore, the Government Accountability Offices overwhelming "failure" to make such purchases in the majority of instances also begs the question: to what extent is the successful application government countermeasures (USPIC, for instance) responsible for the fact that it is nearly impossible to illegally acquire a firefarm (or illegal firefarm) in the United States through the Dark Web in the first place.
Articles like this also tend to leave out more objective but relevant issues, in this case for instance: weapons that are legal to own in the US being shipped from the united states to countries outside the United States. The ramifications for such activities abroad notwithstanding, this also represents a Homeland Security issue, whereas weapons bought in the United States can be funneled to international terrorist organisations that aim to do harm to US Citizens, or international criminal organisations that aim to bring crime into US communities. The historic bungle that was the ATF Gunwalking Scandal comes to mind as such a government operation actually worthy of the aformentioned "sarcastic candor," but also as a quintessential example not only of foreign elements sought to purchase weapons from America(ns), outside of America, for the purpose of expanding criminal enterprises inside of America, but also of the cunningess with which such handoffs can be made. How quickly these weapons can quite literally disappear in to the international abyss.
A search on justice.gov for US residents caught providing material support to terrorist organisations reveals an almost unbelievable number of people caught doing just that in 2017 alone.
All of the people caught doing that makes me think of shit like 9/11. Most people here were probably pretty young when it happened, but I bet you still remember the looming feeling in the months, even years following. Everyone was so sure the next big one was right around the corner. Rumors would spread about proposed attacks. One that comes to mind was that there would be an attack on some mall on Halloween on 2001 fdsafdsafffnjjfjf
So, what happened to the next big one? Well, in the early 2000s the CIA in cooperation with the ARMY launched a widespread internet pornorgraphy campaign featuring women getting fucked in military fatigues. For some reason Al-Qaeda was super into this shit. The CIA allegedly has webcam shots of Osama Bin Laden himself jerking off to this shit. Aside from purportedly attempting to snap pics of Osama beating his terrorist dick off, for years, the CIA had also been engaged in a campaign to poison Bin Laden via dialysis treatment that he received regularly for renal failure .
The thing about the launch of this proposed porn campaign and the timing of these alleged webcam shots is that they conicide directly with news reports from November and December of 2001 that Osama Bin Laden had actually died of renal failure, or lung failure caused by renal complications.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2001/12/26/report-bin-laden-already-dead/
What you may notice from those NYT and Fox News pieces is that they were published the day after Christmas.
The hunt for Bin Laden along the Tora Bora district had allgedly gone on for months, but it turns out, Osama wasn't hiding along the Tora Bora district at all. No, you see, the 32 virgins jihad myth was running thin, but these bitches getting fucked in military fatigues (or "AGGIES" as the Al-Qaeada members called them, which is the phonetically english pronunciation of the Arabic word for "logey whores in military fatigues, priase be to Allah") had actually inspired a new myth that following a successful jihad, holy warriors would meet not just 32 virgins in nirvana, but 32 logey virgin whores in military fatigues. Or, 32 virgin AGGIES.
This brought Osama to LaJolla where, donning a masterful disguise, he was able to produce the nastiest AGGIE gangbang movie in military fatigue porn history. Unbeknownst to Osama though, this entire AGGIE fetish was being perpetuated by the CIA from the very beginning, who knew all along from comments Osama had left on internet porn videos in the past, that he planned to travel to LaJolla donning a masterful disguise, to produce the nastiest military fatigue gangbang porno known to man.
Ass To Mouth AGGIES was a masterful porno, conspiracy theorists hypothesized for years that it had even featured Usama himself. Despite having never been released, and having in fact been classified sometime in December of 2001, around the same time Osama had reoportedly died of renal failure, or lung failure as a result of renal complications. In November of 2001 The Guardian Magazine reported that in July of 2001 Le Figaro, a French magazine, had reported in July of 2001 that French Intelligence services had asserted that Osama met with the CIA in July 2001. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/01/afghanistan.terrorism
This leaked photo from the French intelligence services has reverberated mostly undetected amongst the deepest crevices of french internet conspiracy forums for years, with many insisting it shows the masterfully disguised but unmistakable likeness of Usama Bin Laden at what would have been the Ass To Mouth AGGIES production launch sometime in July of 2001, in LaJolla 2nd from the right
The fact of the matter is that the CIA blackmailed Osama with webcam shots of himself jerking off and convinced him to make the ultimate porno that would turn every member of Al-Qaeada presumably gay by showing a bunch of dudes in military fatigues fucking, but promising a girl was on the way, but never actually having a girl show up, forcing the Al-Qaeda members to just nut to dudes fucking eachother. The Al-Qaeada members, widely uninitiated in the ways of internet porn, did not realize that accidentally nutting to a dude just one time doesn't make you gay. Which inadvertently led every member of Al-Qeada to believe that they were now in fact gay infidels.
This presented a very odd conundrum to the Al-Qaeada , as now, the gift achieved in Nirvana by a gay holy warrior for jihading a gay infidel would be 32 virgin sluts in military fatigues that were also dudes. Essentially, this meant that the ultimate gift achievable in Nirvana for murdering an infidel who desires gay sex with men in miltary fatigues, would be gay sex with men in military fatigues.
Efectively, it was the confusion caused by this phenomenon that led to 9/11 and the "war on terror." A fuck up so astronomical, that it actually convinced Congress to permanently replace the office of the (Director of Central Intelligence)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_Central_Intelligence] in 2005 with with the (Director of National Intelligence)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence]
For all intents and purposes, the position was essentially the same, the Director of National Intelligence would head the intelligence community and the Central Intelligence Agency.
From a historical standpoint, it was feasible to reign in some fabricated change to seperate the CIA's proverbial era of cocaine smuggling that led to the crack epidemic of the 80s and 90s
from their present day poppy cultivation and opiate smuggling that has led to the opioid epidemic of the 2000s.
muddying the waters that connect Director of Central Intelligence officials and Purdue Pharma execs from the 1990s
as well as the military-industrial complex crossroads that those connections inevitably lead to,
all while feasting on the very strings he pulls,
The Prince of France Dines Alone
Damn bro i ain't reading that lol