{"id":9320,"date":"2012-03-07T09:05:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9320"},"modified":"2012-03-07T09:05:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T16:05:45","slug":"should-you-write-for-your-fbi-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/should-you-write-for-your-fbi-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you write for your FBI file?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, RL sent this link<\/a>. It’s to a nice, friendly, good-humored, free site that helps people compose letters to the FBI requesting their infamous files.<\/p>\n

You just fill in your personal info and the site produces a letter you can print out and send off to find out what the FBI’s got on you. Nice convenience.<\/p>\n

Naturally, despite all its cheerful disclaimers, the site makes me want to wrap my entire self in tinfoil several layers deep.<\/p>\n

There was a time, I suppose, when I held the common fear: If you ask for your FBI file and you don’t already have one, they’ll start one. (The site says this is probably an urban legend, but I don’t agree.)<\/p>\n

Now, more likely, it’s as RL joked: my file would be so big I couldn’t afford the printing costs. (He’s writing for his, though, and maybe his infamous “ties” or “links” to me and other dangerous radicals will show up in it.)<\/p>\n

So … Have you ever seen your FBI files? And if not, do you want to? And if you want to, would you be able to poke your fingers far enough out of your tinfoil wrapper to use the services of that site?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, RL sent this link. It’s to a nice, friendly, good-humored, free site that helps people compose letters to the FBI requesting their infamous files. You just fill in your personal info and the site produces a letter you can print out and send off to find out what the FBI’s got on you. Nice convenience. Naturally, despite all its cheerful disclaimers, the site makes me want to wrap my entire self in tinfoil several layers deep. There was a time, I suppose, when I held the common fear: If you ask for your FBI file and you…<\/p>\n

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