It’s a variation on the 40-year-old male law enforcement officer posing in a chatroom as a 15-year-old girl.

The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them.

Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, to stage armed raids of homes in Pennsylvania, New York, and Nevada last year.

Just so we’re clear on this, the FBI is hosting perfectly legal porn, pretending like its illegal porn and then arresting people who look at it.

You’re tax dollars, hard at work.  I mean, I’m all for busting pedophiles, but this is ridiculous.  The people clicking these links do probably think they’re going to be looking at kiddie porn, but I always thought someone had to actually do a crime in order to get arrested, not just think it.