We are so screwed... I've watched an episode or two of the weird ABC TV propaganda show THREAT MATRIX and howled with laughter at the attempt to convince morons that the Dept of Homeland Security is a James Bond wet dream when in reality 80% of our intelligence capability is people in cubicles watching CNN and looking up stuff in out-dated almanacs. (Really. Believe it!)
So I had no gaudy expectations of our real Threat Matrix, but I didn't know the situation is quite
this bad...
The Google Terrorist
It was the lead item on the government's daily threat matrix one day last April. Don Emilio Fulci described by an FBI tipster as a reclusive but evil millionaire, had formed a terrorist group that was planning chemical attacks against London and Washington, D.C. That day even FBI director Robert Mueller was briefed on the Fulci matter. But as the day went on without incident, a White House staffer had a brainstorm: He Googled Fulci. His findings: Fulci is the crime boss in the popular video game Headhunter. "Stand down," came the order from embarrassed national security types.
US News and World Report http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040517/whispers/17whisplead_2.htm
(via atrios)
BTW, I'm guessing the name Fulci is a game designer's homage to horror film great Italian director Lucio Fulci.
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