CNN Declassified November 18, 2019 07:44:00
The shadowcrew website target list had boiled down to 28 people because those were the 28 people that we could identify. and we had to do a takedown. the idea was to lure those people online together into a virtual private network all at once for a big announcement, that albert was going to retire as the administrator of the site and hopefully turn it over to someone else. so we could do a simultaneous international takedown and arrest these people. a year and a half of an investigation, and all the good and the bad built up to october 26th, 2004. >> we chose sunday because that was the night ...
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