And it isn’t what anyone thought in previous speculations, which included aliens, strange celestial objects, NASA’s recent launch of a solar probe, or a mercury spill from the “float bearing” of the main telescope. No, it’s far worse than any of those things.
From KTSM-TV in El Paso:
A federal search warrant reveals that Sunspot Solar Observatory was shut down as FBI agents conducted computer forensic searches for child pornography.
The source of child pornography was traced to an IP address used at the observatory and a source within the building observed a computer with “not good” images on it, the warrant states.
An investigation by the FBI revealed that a janitor is the main suspect in the search, however he has not been charged with a crime even though his name is on the warrant.
The warrant states the suspect would use the observatory Wifi and a personal laptop to download the child pornography.
A limited number of people have access to the observatory from dusk until dawn, which helped narrow their search.
The observatory in the mountains of southern New Mexico had been closed since Sept. 6 because of an undisclosed security concern, but reopened on Monday.
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My theory is that the solar observatory now has incontrovertible truth that the Sun is actually responsible for Climate Change and Global Warming, but this will upset the status quo so much that the entire CAGW movement will be thrown into disarray immediately, endangering the world as we know it. So the FBI has cooked up this excuse under the direction of Mueller et al, so as not to hurt the fortunes of the democrats and the marxists. And the academics and media rent seekers. Ha!
OT , ice extent min. 19/20 Sept 2018
And while we’re off topic on this slow day, check out what the equatorial trade winds have been up to this week.
Greg,
Probably.
If so, then 2018 will just pip out 2008 for sixth highest of the past 12 years. There have been three low years, 2007, 2012 and 2016, and three high years, 2009, 2013 and 2014, with six in the middle, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017 and 2018.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
In order from highest to lowest: 2009, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2010, 2018, 2008, 2015, 2011, 2016, 2007 and 2012. The three low years all suffered August cyclones, two in 2016. Arctic sea ice summer minimum extent has stopped falling. Its trend has been flat since 2007 and rising since the record low year of 2012. Which is what one would expect, given a trough to trough cycle of around 60 years.
Conveniently for alarmists, the dedicated satellite record began in 1979, near the Arctic sea ice high for the century. By contrast, Antarctic sea ice grew from 1979 to 2014, making it improbably that CO2 had anything to do with Arctic decline. OTOH, the PDO flipped to its warm mode in 1977.
Apparently the persion in question has not been arrested . Curious.
What about the LV mass killing?
You mean the lone gunman. What’s up? Don’t you believe the FBI 🙂 a totally incredible organization?
I totally get that he killed that many people because of his teeth problem.
Travelling with a computer without a hard disk probably has the same explanation.
What I don’t get, is how that’s connected to his brother’s pedo problem. Or maybe it isn’t.
They say “The source of child pornography” then they say “to download the child pornography.”
If he was downloading he was not a source; do they mean upload?
Upload…. interesting…
cheers
if he was torrenting it, he could be both downloading and uploading at the same time.
The cover story needs a cover story.
Often sub-contracted to the sub-contractor poorly paid and treated like dirt, one set of people can be found in the most secure of facilities with access to all areas .
The cleaners , everyone needs to go to the toilet and everyone has bins , FBI, CIA MI6 the lot
and these people push around trolleys full of cleaning stuff , bags etc and are there when no one else is there and who even knows what their cleaner looks like ?
it is perfect cover .
Wow, the FBI response to catch a janitor downloading porn might have been just a little over-the-top don’t you think?
What might be the appropriate response ??
Just dig a hole in the desert ?
I thought the Blackhawk added a nice touch.
Downloading porn, and downloading child porn would certainly provoke different responses.
well when military chaps got busted it provoked cover up response.
and they have their own choppers etc and like to use them for any reason they can
but they didnt
and I doubt your congresscritters would be pure n angelic either, theres always chatter
but they never get busted do they?
this got used as a publically accepted easy fob off.
everyone hates kidd*e p*rn and p*do so its a winner winner chicken dinner!
They come down really hard on child porn, might even bring one of their black helicopters.
It ain’t nuthin compared to the treatment they’ll get in prison.
Couple of decades one of engineers did something (we never found what) which was highly embarrassing for him and for the company. His employment contact was terminated when apparently security on way out found in his bag a roll or two of company’s luxurious toilet paper used in the tower block housing the management offices. Everyone knew it was a cover-up story for something far more serious.
I say BS to the pron story. This has the earmarks of something more nefarious. Just like the Columbia Gas explosions in the northeast – no one is talking about it. I believe Columbia Gas was hacked.
paranoia, obsessive-compulsive behaviour and political correctness gone mad
and where was the IT manager/network control?
Letting that sort of shizzle *in* is little different from letting all your secrets *out* – internet pron being just a slight variation on the age-old Honey-Trap
……Look look lookee here, click here to see a raunchy vid of Hillary removing her raincoat and, before you know, everyone in your contacts list has an email peddling fake Viagra
Back with “paranoia” and correctness – did we see the report of Mr Trump visiting Florence’s devastation and admiring a lovely ‘thing of substance’ and unknown provenance that Florence had dumped, perfectly intact, in someone’s back-yard (after she’d trashed their house, hence the POTUS’ visit)
A very lovely yacht in fact.
Old Trumpo apparently commented:
“At least you got a nice new boat out of the deal”
And NOBODY can work out whether he was joking or not.
Nobody ‘gets it’ anymore.
Understand now why your wife, after enduring endless ‘headaches’ & superglued knickers, uses a lawyer to trash you – THEN goes off to put an ad in the Lonely Hearts asking for someone with a GSOH?
There is the thing propelling Global Warming, plastic, ozone, saturated fat, carbonoxide, acid this that & the other etc etc etc etc
paranoia
“A limited number of people have access to the observatory from dusk until dawn, which helped narrow their search.”
This surprises me. I would’ve thought an observatory would be most useful from dusk until dawn, and you’d have janitorial work done during daylight when only one star (Sol) is visible. Anyone know why an observatory would be busier in daylight?
It’s the SOLAR observatory!
Yeah, I noticed the word solar just after I published. Doh!
Don’t you hate when that happens! 🙂
*Trigger Warning*
I don’t want to alarrum you (because my name is not Greg)
but think of all the CO2 this story and investigation has generated
Good grief. And here I thought it was a hunt for an escaped Denialist running around naked, hair on fire yelling “It’s the Sun stupid”.
I get that all the time.
Now we see that the aliens came for our porn? Whoa.
Has anyone heard where Pachauri has been for the last several weeks? Just sayin’…
This story makes no sense.
They shut down the observatory for almost 2 weeks, utilized a Blackhawk helicopter, a swat team, and invoked a security threat … in order to find a janitor with child porn on his laptop????
That’s ABSURD.
I’m not saying aliens or anything like that. Just saying there’s something wrong with this story and, if it’s true, then there’s something wrong with our over-sized government and law enforcement agencies.
The cleaner/janitor who dunnit?
LOL When I worked for a large, well known computer company in the 80’s, it was often said that if we workers wanted to know what “Management” were planning we’d just ask the janitor.
Good goddess, I thought I was the only person still alive who has that album!
Sorry, this comment is for:
Brian September 21, 2018 at 4:38 am
The Billy Thorpe explanation: Children of the Sun
My comment here is: yes, janitors, and the mail room. Seriously, they go to every floor, every day. They KNOW.
They (the FBI) aren’t playing around here.
CIA training exercise gone wrong. Janitor was being prepared to infiltrate the White House.
Would the FBI shut down the Pentagon if they detected such activity there? I think America’s enemies have just been been offered a much more effective hacking target than the electoral system.
Too complicated. Just accuse random top military persons of ignoring random sex abuses 15 years ago or groping 35 years ago.
The Billy Thorpe explanation: Children of the Sun
What about the computer that had the IP address. Was it a server? Maybe it was being used to hold some porn email. Maybe 3000 of them..
I hear a dog not barking.