The FBI convinced the New Zealand government to raid the mansion of Kim Dotcom with its elite counterterrorism unit by claiming that he was in possession of a “doomsday device.”
The FBI believed that the Megaupload founder had developed a way to immediately eliminate all evidence of computer-related crimes from his systems with the flick of a switch.
Unfortunately for the FBI — or fortunately, depending on how you look at it — he didn’t. That’s evidenced by the fact that it took the aforementioned elite police around fifteen minutes to find Dotcom in his safe room. If he’d his hands on a doomsday device, he had plenty of time to use it.
He didn’t, so everyone just looks silly.
Related Links
- Dotcom and the ‘doomsday device’ [NZ Herald]
If you believe that the FBI believed that Kim Dotcom had a doomsday device then I have a really nice bridge for sale just for you, it connects Manhattan and Brooklyn.
This was a classic intimidation ploy. Pure and simple. The police state was flexing it’s international muscles. Did the NZ police think that there was a doomsday device? I think not.
Please Dice don’t be such a shill for the government. Plllease.