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FBI allegedly caught using GPS to spy on student
CNN ^ | 10-08-2010 | Kim Zetter

Posted on 10/08/2010 12:27:44 PM PDT by Stayfrosty

(Wired) -- A California student got a visit from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: 1984; california; counterterror; fbi
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To: ScottinVA

Attach it to a Cincinnati cab.


21 posted on 10/08/2010 12:44:30 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Morg, believing they cannot be deceived, it's nye impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: Stayfrosty

Well he must have been doing something illegal to warrant being tracked by the FBI. If you aren’t doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about. /sarcasm


22 posted on 10/08/2010 12:44:42 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: Stayfrosty
I'm confused...

Was the FBI "allegedly caught using GPS" or were they "caught allegedly using GPS?"

Is there doubt about being caught or doubt about using GPS?

-PJ

23 posted on 10/08/2010 12:45:02 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: Dubya-M-Dees

Send it UPS back to FBI HQ in DC.


24 posted on 10/08/2010 12:45:13 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Stayfrosty

If it had been me, I would never have found it. So what was his friend looking for, and why did they look in the first place?


25 posted on 10/08/2010 12:45:27 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: east1234

My thought exactly!

The entertainment of thinking of them tracking and retrieving it would almost offset being pissed off at finding it on my car.


26 posted on 10/08/2010 12:45:57 PM PDT by Max_850
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To: Stayfrosty

I’m having difficulty getting worked up over surveillance of possible Moslem terrorists.


27 posted on 10/08/2010 12:46:37 PM PDT by Politicalmom (A BIG TENT analogy isnÂ’t the correct one. The correct one is a MAGNET. -Fred Thompson)
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To: Stayfrosty
"You don't need to call your lawyer...."

If somebody from the government says that, then you definitely need to call your lawyer now.

28 posted on 10/08/2010 12:46:50 PM PDT by Sakity Yaks
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To: east1234
My father told me that a friend of his used to fly a private cargo plane full of Television sets to Mexico. His long time “friend” was a DEA agent and thought that perhaps his buddy maybe running drugs into or from Mexico so they loaded the bird with a tracking device and electronic bugs. This pilot found the device, and ended up putting it into the DEA agents car unbeknownst to him and it took several months for the agents to figure out they had been had! True story.
29 posted on 10/08/2010 12:47:00 PM PDT by Stayfrosty
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To: east1234
If I ever found one on my car I’d photograph it and then take it to the nearest truck stop. Let whomever think I was heading across country.

That was my first thought as well. It might be even better, though, to find the nearest GSA fleet office and go stick it on a vehicle fitted with those G-prefix government license plates. Or a mail delivery vehicle (they have large tractor-trailer rigs too).

It'd definitely be better to turn it back on the feds than to just stick it on some other unsuspecting citizen's vehicle.

30 posted on 10/08/2010 12:49:50 PM PDT by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: Stayfrosty

Looks like old technology. They must have used all the new devices on Republicans.

Or more likely, someone at the FBI wanted it to be found.


31 posted on 10/08/2010 12:50:53 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: east1234

If I ever found one on my car I’d photograph it and then take it to the nearest truck stop. Let whomever think I was heading across country


On a truck going into Canada.


32 posted on 10/08/2010 12:52:11 PM PDT by maine yankee
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To: bigbob

I’d drive into a tunnel with it and drop it off halfway.


33 posted on 10/08/2010 12:52:45 PM PDT by Sakity Yaks
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To: Stayfrosty

Since the FBI says this is an on going investigation.

May I ask why everyone is taking the word of a Muslim traveling to the Mid-east?

I mean come-on folks, how many INNOCENT people check their car every morn for an FBI bug?

Let’s get real.


34 posted on 10/08/2010 12:55:22 PM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: east1234

There was a sheep rancher in Wyoming a few years ago that was having trouble with a wolf that was going after his flock. He’d called the Fish&Wildlife folks, but they weren’t going to do anything, so he shot the wolf, removed its collar, and put it on a semi that was stopped at a rest stop on I-80. The Fish&Wildlife folks wigged out when they started tracking their wolf doing 75mph down the interstate.


35 posted on 10/08/2010 12:55:58 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany.")
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To: Stayfrosty
My daughter had a pen-pal from Turkey (assigned by the school). After exchange of a few letters, her pen pal sent her a bracelet. The only problem, he wrapped it in an old shotgun shell box. The trace black powder set off all sort of alarms. An investigator showed up at our front door and demanded to see her. Once the investigator saw she was 6 years old, he apologized, gave her her bracelet and left.
36 posted on 10/08/2010 12:56:43 PM PDT by Ben Mugged (War does not determine who is right -- only who is left.)
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To: Stayfrosty
Based on FBI precedent, he's lucky they didn't shoot his mother and burn his house to the ground.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

37 posted on 10/08/2010 12:58:49 PM PDT by The Comedian ("Progressive" is a code word for "Pending nitrogen cycle contributor")
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

Ping


38 posted on 10/08/2010 12:59:30 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Stayfrosty
Leave it in an unattended package in an airport or, even better, in the lobby of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Sprinkle a little potassium nitrate on it just to set off any chemical sensors. Then the FBI's bomb squad can blow up their own tracking device. A nice little "Circle of Life" ending.
39 posted on 10/08/2010 1:00:35 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Grblb blabt unt mipt speeb!! Oot piffoo blaboo...)
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To: Kimberly GG
warrantless tracking on an American Citizen. Will the anti-patriot act objectors object?

The courts so far are supporting this type of tracking without warrants.

40 posted on 10/08/2010 1:03:56 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average.)
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