And here is the best part. Because of the [un]Patriot Act, the FBI can ransack your house, your business, loot the data from your computer (all of it, including personal stuff you don't want people to see), tap your phones, read your mail and God only knows what else - without ever having any legal obligation to tell you that they have you under surveillance. Now they have your database of information and contacts and no longer need you. In fact they don't want to actually have to pay you for the tip, so it will be in their best interests, both professionally (in that an amatuer showed up the pros) and economically (that payoff could underwrite a training junket in the Carribean). With all of this information, they can haul you off to Gitmo and suspend habeas-corpus, deny you legal assistance and trump up a case of you being a dangerous terrorist, without ever giving you time, your money, or legal counsel to form a defense.