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Feds Investigate Couple for Online Searches (pressure cookers, backpacks and quinoa, oh my!)
Medium.com ^ | Monday, August 1, 2013 | Michell Catalano

Posted on 08/01/2013 9:40:07 AM PDT by kristinn

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To: SE Mom

I had to laugh yesterday, when I saw an ad for electric pressure cookers on TV.


61 posted on 08/01/2013 10:49:07 AM PDT by Eva (B Obama is to Trayvon Martin as Al Sharpton is to Tawana Brawley)
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To: AppyPappy

What would sound NON fabricated?

There are a kajillion ways that a motivated, evil person or group could use to create damage and chaos. However, the phenomenon of copycat crimes (or guerrilla attacks if you want to look at it that way) is also well known. This team looks like it is looking for copycats in the making. It’s already been revealed that our spooks are snarfing up all internet traffic. This is one result. This is also why it’s important to have people of integrity in these positions.


62 posted on 08/01/2013 10:53:00 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Doing an internet search and the feds show up? I can’t see it. It’s not as easy as it sounds.


63 posted on 08/01/2013 10:54:34 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: Eva

LOL! But were there recipes for quinoa with it?


64 posted on 08/01/2013 10:54:41 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: AppyPappy

Read the account... there were multiple searches. Not “an internet search” (singular).


65 posted on 08/01/2013 10:56:03 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: AppyPappy

see link in post 60..I was skeptical too...


66 posted on 08/01/2013 10:56:52 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: AppyPappy

And, for more than one of the things that are on that copycat criminal watch list.

Now someone who wants to try to debunk this, is more than welcome to be a guinea pig. Go ahead and use Google or Bing in unencrypted mode to look for the various things that could be used to carry out the Nefarious Act Of The Week, as well as details about those Nefarious Acts themselves. If you go unmolested then you have a counter example.


67 posted on 08/01/2013 10:58:32 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Bump for later....


68 posted on 08/01/2013 10:59:02 AM PDT by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Still, there are probably billions of searches a day. They would have to pull searches by IP address, contact the ISP to get the router associated with the IP, figure out which userid owned the router and get a physical address. They would have to do this for every search with that pattern.

It is back to school and canning season. There would be thousands of these searches every day.


69 posted on 08/01/2013 11:00:04 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: driftdiver

rather clear our Commander in Chief could not get a security clearance on ANY of those points


70 posted on 08/01/2013 11:01:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

How could they with a straight face ask about someone’s membership in the Communist Party when Obama is in the White House?


71 posted on 08/01/2013 11:01:37 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: AppyPappy

You saw yourself that even the investigation team told them that they were finding 99% of the cases innocuous. No, they don’t bulk pull those extra identifying elements, they wait till they see the combination of searches they think suspicious then they pull the identifying elements.

Go ahead and be a guinea pig, if you dare....


72 posted on 08/01/2013 11:03:04 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: Paul46360

After that post, maybe.


73 posted on 08/01/2013 11:04:09 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: kristinn

Here’s another problem. This gal is a writer and somewhat wise to the ways of the world so she immdiately puts this online- for countless reasons (good for her). HOWEVER- if they’re doing this roughly 100 times a month in that town, county or all of USA why haven’t the others gone public? Are they that intimidated by the authorities? That’s worrisome ... they’re thinking it’s no big deal..

Just so you know- if that ever happens to me I will be on FR asap talking about it.


74 posted on 08/01/2013 11:04:10 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: crazyhorse691

“Never ever let the police conduct a search without a warrant”
They don’t need a warrant. They declare you a terrorist suspect and therefore don’t need one. That’s all perfectly legal due the “PATRIOT ACT”.


75 posted on 08/01/2013 11:07:05 AM PDT by SgtBilko
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To: qwertyz

Using TOR or any other anonymizer makes you a terrorist suspect. The US gov operates the majority of TOR nodes. They know why. You might try, but you can’t hide.


76 posted on 08/01/2013 11:12:34 AM PDT by SgtBilko
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To: kristinn

Look on the bright side — they didn’t shoot their dogs.


77 posted on 08/01/2013 11:13:24 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: kristinn

These bombs have been used for years around the world, and our crack Secret Police never figured out they might be an issue until someone blew some up this year. People should think about that too. We have idiots “protecting” us, who can’t think of anything until AFTER it has blown up in this country.

Oh- and we do live in a police state now, it’s just most people don’t realize it. The noose tightens a bit every day. Doesn’t matter who is POTUS (although Obama is so much worse than most). We re doomed, no matter what. Look at the idiots in Congress...


78 posted on 08/01/2013 11:14:51 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This isn’t bad, either: https://duckduckgo.com/


79 posted on 08/01/2013 11:15:49 AM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; Jim Robinson

>>>I smell a “Run the FBI Ragged with Google” protest campaign a comin’....<<<

Sounds like a great idea for a FReep!!!

I’ll be happy to start!!!


80 posted on 08/01/2013 11:18:12 AM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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