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Originally Posted by tcrist
SPF2245, or anyone else
If what you say is true and all they do is investigate, then why do they need immunity?
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Because it would/is illegal to conduct wire taps w/o a warrant for a criminal investigation. To do so would result in a criminal act for a domestic officer investigating a criminal (non-terrorist activity). Immunity allows them to work a case, period. I know, I know...but geez, then they'll hack my information and send me to prison, for what? Driving a copy of a real car w/o permission of the design owner (Interpol also investigates patent issues)?
And trying to get a judge to sign off on a domestic case is hard enough I can't even imagine what it would take to secure one where the crime is committed in one country by a suspect living in another. That is the beauty of modern internet crimes, the suspect rarely faces the chance of getting caught due to the juristictional issues.
Also, Interpol is also made up of more computer freaks then door-kicking, 4th Ammendment Rights violating, traditional police officers everyone here fears.