Joseph Cox

And it's like, this...

This is real, and it really blew me away.

Smiley face, sunglasses, emojis, thumbs up, crying, laughing came up a lot.

Whether like, ha ha ha ha ha, you know, we've done that.

Or just strings after they'd actually successfully done an assassination.

Like, they don't care.

This is just part of their business, and they order an assassination with the casualness that, like, you would order, like, takeout food.

Yeah.

Even though legally Anom wasn't a wiretap for various quirks in US law, they treated it ethically as such, which means that if you're listening to a wire and there's a clear threat to life against somebody, like, we're going to go kill this person at this time with this weapon,

The FBI or other law enforcement typically acts and maybe they go and arrest the hitman if they know who that is.

Maybe they send a squad car to the approximate location and turn on their sirens and that will scare some people off.

Or often it's the case they'll warn the victim and be like, we're not going to tell you how, but we know there is a tangible threat to your life and we recommend that you change up your routine or we can offer you protection.

And that happened tons of times throughout Anom.

In one case, a murder was planned on the FBI's app from sourcing the weapon, to tracking the target, to luring the target to a specific place, to then gloating about the murder.

And it was successful.

The entire thing was planned on Anom.

And the issue was that the FBI did not provide those messages to the Swedish authorities in time.

Now, on the flip side, the FBI says it intervened in something like 150 threats to life.

But hey, at least one person died as well.

And I don't know, are we okay with that trade-off?