[HN Gopher] FBI Questioned Michigan Senate Aide About Tear Gas Bill
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       FBI Questioned Michigan Senate Aide About Tear Gas Bill
        
       Author : jbegley
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2021-01-04 18:22 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (theintercept.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (theintercept.com)
        
       | headcanon wrote:
       | On the surface, looks like poor bureaucratic communication. FBI
       | agent gets a tip that someone said something that triggered an
       | alarm at this address, but with zero other context. Agent
       | proceeds to play Bad Cop and interrogate the subject.
       | 
       | What seems stupid to me is why wouldn't you at least do some due
       | diligence on the address? Are they really hitting so many houses
       | in a day they can't be bothered to figure out who lives there,
       | and are their snooping tools so poor they only get a single point
       | of data "Possible bogey at this address." Real good way to get
       | someone shot IMO. The reason for a visit and the context around
       | it should be much more front-and-center. Like, from their
       | perspective either this was completely innocent, in which case
       | you don't need Mr. Bad Cop in the first place, or you're walking
       | into a house with a bunch of would-be domestic terrorists, in
       | which case you're going to need a lot more than two plain-clothes
       | officers with guns.
       | 
       | Now what seems alarming to me is the idea that Zoom is
       | automatically SWATting people, just like they used to say about
       | the phone lines. If I say I'm going to "bomb the capitol" on a
       | zoom call am I going to get a visit from Mr. Bad Cop?
        
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