Brendan Kiley exposes the disturbing details of a two year undercover sting operation in Seattle that spent inordinate amounts of money for little to no actionable results. Rick Wilson, unknowingly best friends with a Seattle police detective, got hauled in:
"The degree of surveillance and monitoring has been extremely expensive," the officer tells Rick, sounding equal parts intimidating and frustrated. " … I have to emphasize the level of surveillance we've run over the last two years. Tell us about all the drug deals in The Yard. You want me to tell you about the red cabinet where you keep the drugs? The cocaine? We have hundreds of hours of surveillance, wire, video…"
"That would seem to be an absurd waste of state financing and funding," Rick says. "And that actually scares me more than the charges… You guys aren't after anything bigger than this? This is it?"
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