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They do have black SUVs so I'm not sure why the objection there. The joint terrorism task force is the FBI, whose agents are typically in plain clothes and not in a uniform. And they were asking questions why would they need the SWAT team? For all you know those guys were staged around the corner like they normally do anyway.

Wise up.

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You've got to admit that this story does seem a bit strange. If they know what you've searched for, why would they bother showing up and letting "potential bad guys" know that they're wise to them? Now said "potential bad guys" will be more coy about their search habits. Further more, if said "potential bad guy" is not a bad guy at all, now you've just freaked out a US citizen who might turn around and write their congress-members about how big bad government is on their lawn. It seems like particularly odd policy for a law enforcement agency. Granted, the aforementioned hasn't stopped similar policies in the past from happening. I dunno. I'm still skeptical.

It's also a third person account. Humans are notoriously bad eye-witnesses.

There is fair share of weird stories. Way back when cellphones were just getting GSM, I had a strange call person on the other end of the line was demanding private information and I just balked at that. About 5mins later my phone was dead, apparently some fraud depart of cellco revoked my cell account and billed me for 250$ dollars suspension fee. They wanted 3 pieces of government issued Photo ID and another 200$ dollars to restore the account. The Carrier was Fido I think. I was working as a developer, all my bills were paid on time. It was kind of weird to get such an abusive treatment, right out of the blue .. so there are some true and weird stories to go around...

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she uses "join terrorism task force" 3 times in the blog post. She never mentions the FBI/police/government at all.

In my opinion 99% of america has no idea what a joint terrorism task force is (its basically an internal law enforcement word, not publicly used) and would simply say "the feds" or "the government" showed up. Her using that specific word all over the place leads me to believe she is hiding something.

She's not 99% of America, she's a writer who's been published in Forbes and BoingBoing, and has almost a million Twitter followers.

She has a Forbes "site", which is not exactly the same thing as being a writer "for Forbes". She's really a blogger, not an editor or staff member at Forbes per se.

> Her using that specific word all over the place leads me to believe she is hiding something.

She researched what went on with her family? You just used the words also, so according to your "logic" you have something to hide. Perhaps that's why you created a new HN account?

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