Abuse Helplines Used to Cover Up Abuse

This has been found in numerous cases. See also this post, and this post on the Mormons' FBI and CIA connections.

"What is US$50 million in legal costs to a church that takes in US$10 billion in tithing?" See this post on movement of capital. And check my Twitter feed for a photo of that FBI guy in Vainilla. Then check this post on gathering evidence for use in ciminal investigations. See 3 mins 51 secs, where Gowdy asks Mueller about FBI investigations of American diplomats travelling abroad to solicit under-age sex.

And from October 2015

And around the same time:

Then late in 2016, a year later, This New York Times article "Assange, Avowed Foe of Clinton, Timed Email Release for Democratic Convention.

Assange criticized Mrs. Clinton for pushing to intervene in Libya in 2011 when Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi was cracking down on Arab Spring protesters; he said that the result of the NATO air war was Libya’s collapse into anarchy, enabling the Islamic State to flourish.

 See also this piece on a security flaw in Apple's iTunes software

A British company called Gamma International previously marketed a piece of software to governments, called FinFisher. The software took advantage of the iTunes exploit and allowed those with the software to spy on those who used the software.

What’s most worrying about this is that Apple allegedly found out about the flaw in 2008, according to Brian Krebs, a security writer. But the company did nothing about it until earlier this month when it released iTunes 10.5.1 — leaving the exploit open for over three years.

FinFisher's wide use by governments facing political resistance was reported in March 2011 after Egyptian protesters raided State Security Investigations Service and found letters from Gamma International UK Ltd., confirming that SSI had been using a trial version for five months.