pressure cookers, backpacks and quinoa, oh my!
This is where we are at. Where you have no expectation of privacy. Where trying to learn how to cook some lentils could possibly land you on a watch list. Where you have to watch every little thing you do because someone else is watching every little thing you do.
Same-day update: This was not what she led everyone to believe. No Federal agents were involved and no surveillance of Google searches were done. See this: FBI denies involvement in Michele Catalano-related investigation
Kelly J. Langmesser, an FBI spokeswoman, said: “The FBI, nor the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, was involved in the action mentioned in Ms. Catalano’s blog post. The FBI respectfully defers you to Suffolk County Police Department.”
Next-day update: Big Boss, Not Big Brother, Spotted Long Island Family’s ‘Suspicious’ Google Searches. She has just made it more difficult for people to believe anyone else who is a victim of the NSA dragnet. How anyone with her credentials could have created such an error-ridden report is just scandalous. If you get a visit, ask for business cards from the law enforcement agents so you can prove who the hell they were.
