As a former investigator, I have to question what happened.

Basically, entering a foreign computer with our a warrant broke the law. That tainted the evidence, fruit of the posion tree. Therefore any warrant to read the info is invalid and the evidence should not have been allowed.

I am surprised they did this given their past track record of not allowing use of video surveillance in area's where their is no expectation of privacy. I would have expected better.

Coordination and cooperation with the Russian police may not have gotten then anywhere, but then without trying they would never know.

I do know that if a foreign government wants info from say AOL, they have to go through the FBI to get that info, what makes this case any different.

Criminals, even foreign criminals have rights under our justuce system. Breaking the law makes law enforcemt no better then the criminals they are trying to stop.



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