[thechat] Fwd: FC: FBI bumbling ruins chance for terrorist"cyber-sting"

[Luther, Ron]

Hi Bob,


It wasn't 'cyber' related, but I had a friend apply for a job with the FBI.
(A teen-age kid looking for a summer job in the mailroom or something on
that kind of level - I don't think he had graduated high school yet ...
so it's not like he was going to get some kind of high security level job.)

Without telling me, he put me down as a reference.

The Bureau sent someone to my home to talk to me.  They sent the most
'humor-free' individual I have ever met.  {Maybe running background checks
on teenagers does that to you - I dunno.}

I think he was offended when I asked what he wanted instead of immediately
inviting him in once he identified himself as "FBI".

I think I lost a few more brownie points because the coffee table separating
us was covered with left wing books I was doing some research with.  [I
remember one of them being titled something like "The ABCs of Communism".
I don't recall what the other two were.]  I could tell this wasn't going
to go well.

I still have scars on my tongue from him asking "Have you ever known [x] to
have been involved in anti-American activities?"  I really had to bite hard
to keep from saying "You mean since we burned the flag down at the American
Legion hall last night? Naw. Nothing so far today."

RonL.
(Nope - he didn't get the job.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Davis [mailto:bobd at members.evolt.org]

I've seen this in action.