FC: Go to emergency room, get narced out by FBI doctor?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Anti-terrorism? Bah. That's thinking too small -- imagine the exciting 
applications to the War on Drugs when folks come in with overdoses! Or 
college students with suspicious cases of RSI who are guilty of federal 
felonies under the NET Act... for being peer to peer pirates! --Declan]]

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Date: 9 May 2003 10:03:06 -0000
From: Stern <Stern () nym alias net>
To: declan () well com
Subject: Go to ER, Get treated by FBI Doc

The Strategic Medical Intelligence unit, formed in the wake of the Sept. 11 
terrorist attacks, is a pilot program begun in the FBI's Pittsburgh office 
that quietly has forged an alliance between the agency and a small group of 
doctors.

...

...if someone clearly has had a finger blown off, yet claims it was sliced 
by a lawnmower blade, the FBI could conduct a background check on the 
victim and perhaps investigate more extensively to see whether he might be 
making bombs, ..

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/regional/s_133607.html




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