From 2003 until 2013, Hank Asher was on the board of directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). He also provided databases to track missing children, sex offenders, and suspects and victims of sex trafficking. So not only did he have influence over a major US organization devoted to fighting sex trafficking, he controlled the databases used to track it.
According to Wikipedia, Asher was also a cocaine smuggler. In 1982, he flew cocaine out of Colombia and Belize, during the exact same time that the CIA was doing it as part of Iran-Contra. Was Asher a CIA asset? That would explain why he got off with no charges and got to join the DEA.
If Asher was indeed a CIA asset, giving him such control over the NCMEC and these databses was a catastrophic mistake considering the CIA's involvement in child trafficking. He could have helped corrupt NCMEC from the inside, and maybe even backdoored these databases to help out the traffickers.
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hookednosedjoooo ago
Part of his business model was to build a supercomputer that could track child pornography as it traveled over the Internet, then give police free access. Asher traced his passion for fighting child pornography to 1993, when he donated his database software to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The first time his creation helped rescue a child from a predator, Asher said, he felt like he was cashing “a paycheck for the soul.” http://www.palmbeachpost.com/.../boca-raton.../nTtM2/
EDIT: this was from a facebook post about him