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You all are grossly mis-evaluating the way in which TIPS runs (or will run).

News flash for y'all: Your average cable guy can, and sometimes does, call the FBI if he sees something "suspicious" ANYWAY, regardless of whether or not he styles himself a "secret agent".

The FBI has absolutely no use for an informant who calls in a report on an elderly grandmother with a flower garden. The cable guy in the story would get a chance to make such a call exactly once. The FBI would come, knock on the woman's door, see she's not a threat, apologize for wasting her time, and give the cable guy a long talking-to.

If he was found making a habit of it, he'd be jailed under aggressive accusation clauses. These are the same laws that jail women who cry, "Rape!" to put away ex-boyfriends they don't like.

The sky isn't falling, folks. I'm sorry to shatter all your conspiracy theory illusions, but the article presents a work of fiction, nothing more.