GOOGLE Pressure Cookers and BACKPACKS, Get A Visit From The Cops

[cyclonescott]

GOOGLE Pressure Cookers and BACKPACKS, Get A Visit From The Cops

PHILIP BUMP 10:09 AM ET

Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which prompts the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling?

Catalano (who is a professional writer) describes the tension of that visit.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-knocking-doors-because-google-searches/67864/#.UfqCSAXy7zQ.facebook

[racrguy]

What the fuck...

[Rick Modena]

The man, he's always watching, always...

[talisman]

I don't think the government wants to look at some of the perverted shit I google.

[Sean88gt]

I don't think the government wants to look at some of the perverted shit I google.

No shit.


Or deer refuges.

[scootro]

if you comment on missing persons links on facebook they'll find you, too!

[Chili]

And now you have posted a thread using both words on an internet forum.. Enjoy your visit! lol

[line-em-up]

I googled, "Pressure Cookers BACKPACKS obama sucks donkey dicks". No feds yet.

[sosoe]

I googled, "Pressure Cookers BACKPACKS obama sucks donkey dicks". No feds yet.

Lol let us know how the visit goes.

[03trubluGT]

What I've learned from this site is that everyone is a "cop"...

[Forever_frost]

Never, never, never allow any law enforcement agent into your home. That was mistake 1. Number 2 was not calling a senator's office and a lawyer instead of talking with them

[pr1042]

Google searches were done on his then employers computer and his now former company turned him in after he was recently released.

[Ted]

Google searches were done on his then employers computer and his now former company turned him in after he was recently released.

Assphincter say what?

[Leah]

Assphincter say what?

He did the searches on a company computer. Said company has since fired him and after reviewing his internet activity, turned the info in to the authorities.

[Ted]

He did the searches on a company computer. Said company has since fired him and after reviewing his internet activity, turned the info in to the authorities.

Exactly