FC: More on FBI agents interrogatating publisher of Columbine satire

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 09:24:53 PDT

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    Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:12:24 -0400
    To: declanat_private, politechat_private
    From: Duncan Frissell <frissellat_private>
    Subject: Re: FC: Humorless FBI agents interrogate publisher of
       Columbine satire
    Cc: gusat_private
    
    At 04:07 PM 4/19/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
    
    
    >http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,43175,00.html
    >
    >    FBI Crashes Parody Party
    >    By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
    >    12:21 p.m. Apr. 19, 2001 PDT
    
    "Mueller, whose father was a radical environmental activist, said that 
    Davos and Hoffman took his roommate outside the house and asked whether he 
    knew of any pipe bomb material on the property. "They kind of shoved him 
    around a little bit," Mueller said, stating that the agents pushed him with 
    their chests and acted thuggishly."
    
    I wonder how this one worked in practice.  Why didn't the roomate just shut 
    the door (or refuse to open it in the first place)?  You *never* have to 
    talk to the FBI under *any* circumstances.  You may have to talk to INS 
    agents at the border or lawyers or judges in court and conceivably police 
    on the street in a few cases, but you never have to talk to peace officers 
    at your door (even if they *have* a warrant).  And you certainly don't have 
    to step outside unless they arrest you.
    
    DCF
    
    
    
    
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