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

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Sat May 10 2003 - 17:12:37 PDT

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    [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 <Sternat_private>
    To: declanat_private
    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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