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kerkula t1_j59ijhu wrote

wait what? The FBI investigated the writer and not the federal reserve????

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designer_of_drugs t1_j5a01ra wrote

They almost certainly didn’t “investigate.” This would have been closer to a “chat.” Not everyone at the FBI is an idiot and if someone has an interesting idea relevant to their interests, they’ll say what’s up to see if they can learn anything to revise this approach to a problem.

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Ihavenoideawhatidoin t1_j5aa234 wrote

> they’ll say what’s up to see if they can learn anything to revise this approach to a problem.

That’s called an investigation lol. Just because it was the FBI doing it doesn’t mean that there’s needs to be a crime involved. If argue that they’re not idiots because they investigated this. The real idiots wouldn’t have investigated and waited until someone actually tried it.

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designer_of_drugs t1_j5aby0b wrote

I suppose that might be somewhat true if it isn’t especially clear why you have that information/interest. Much of the time it’s just a professional discussion akin to one researcher reaching out to another.

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Ihavenoideawhatidoin t1_j5adhj5 wrote

Asking questions to find out if something is possible is literally the most basic definition of investigating. Which is what happened. It doesn’t mean that someone’s suspected of a crime.

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Doright36 t1_j5d9vzz wrote

It's also possible they maybe wanted to know if someone gave them the idea for the story. Like a city worker with a bunch of stolen blueprints their brother knows or something.

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fourleggedostrich t1_j5a6w87 wrote

They spoke to him as part of their investigation of how to increase security.

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RickDripps t1_j59ykz7 wrote

Sounds like the reserve first, then the writer.

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