While headlines focused on Elizabeth Baxter’s obscene gestures toward National Guard members and her swift firing, the Justice Department was simultaneously revealing a far more chilling fight. Operation Grayskull, a joint DOJ–FBI investigation, dismantled four dark web platforms devoted to child sexual abuse material, exposing a hidden world of calculated cruelty and industrial-scale exploitation.

Eighteen people have already been convicted, including Minnesota man Thomas Peter Katsampes, who received more than 20 years in prison and lifetime supervision for promoting and moderating one of the sites. As Bondi publicly vowed that no one who “disrespects law enforcement” would work in her DOJ, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti emphasized another mission: relentlessly tracking predators who believed anonymity made them untouchable. In the same building where staffers raged at uniforms, others spent years quietly hunting monsters.