Bluffing in poker is generally acceptable, cheating at cards isn't, nor is making a general practice of lying which seems to be an ever present temptation for you.

By the way, you don't have some affiliation with "climate science" by any chance, do you?

Fleecing liberals and progressives of their money is in fact a market. Those guys will open up their wallets if you say all the right sweet or scary things. Even better, they'll go around repeating and reposting it. There is an entire eco-system in left wing political systems doing this. Since of a lot of these people tend to be older, they are both susceptible to fear and they have money. Some will even direct corporate donations to help the cause. The young can also be susceptible, but the poor results of their own policies has left many of them without jobs and dependent on the government and their parents. They believe the cure for bad outcomes form government programs is even more government programs. The noose grows ever tighter.

They need to create an index for progressives and liberals.

Those aren't contradictory, both can be true.

I'm pretty sure the bank can identify "valuable customers" based on their existing accounts, don't you think? Why would that worry you, and how do you think an IP address would play into it? I'm pretty sure there is more value to the bank in preventing an incidence of fraud than the incredibly minute value of an IP address on the market, and who would legitimately buy it? For what purpose? That seems like nonense. Why does the NSL bother you? Up to no good?

The issue here is shady dealings, not sheep.

Not at all. He had an obligation to report that contact to his security office to report that and turn down the offer. He didn't do that. He was offered an opportunity, and he took it. The crime was what he did in taking the opportunity. He actively stole plans, freely volunteered the suggestions on the best way to attack the carrier, and made suggestions on now he could avoid being caught and on stealing even more information. It's all on him.

As is demonstrated on this page the accusations are going to come regardless of the circumstances, and I doubt the FBI cares about the whining on Slashdot.

It was a sting, not entrapment. The FBI merely provided the opportunity, he committed the crime.

You've shown you lie, you probably cheat as well.

No, the FBI didn't "create the crime," the suspect did. The FBI simply accepted what he stole.

Oddly enough I'm not surprised you see nothing wrong with that guy stealing plans for a US warship and offering advice on how to sink it.

The "New Patriotism" we so often see on Slashdot looks to Bennedict Arnold for inspiration rather than George Washington.

It was a real crime, and he willingly and enthusiastically particpated in it. He is a real spy, but he got caught.

It's not entrapment. Having a securtiy clearence like that his first responsibility upon being contacted by someone seeking that information and claiming to be from a foreign government would have been to report it to the proper authorities. He was a willing participant in the crime.

You might be just one "event" away from going all s.petry on us. (And you know what I mean.)

That you know of. What do you think they might have found out from surveillance prior to the sting? Or didn't the thought cross your mind?

The truly stupid shit is people claiming that al Qaida and friends doesn't exist, and ignore the fact that they control ground.