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Is entrapment not illegal in the US?


The law makes a clear distinction between entrapment and opportunity.

Setting up a "honeypot" is not entrapment.

That's not to say that this was anything other than a waste of time and resources, and a textbook example of what happens when a law enforcement agency is unleashed from regulation.


Thanks for the explanation, I hadn't thought about that difference, makes sense.




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