Be careful what you google..

[regexcellent]

If the police want to search your residence it's almost always because you're under suspicion. Letting them in because you have nothing to hide is dumb, even if only because they may decide to grab your hard drive and oops there go your work files.

[Uncle Sparky]

Stand yer ground, doc... 'Poly will back you up!

[OneFootInTheGrave]

rethorically, we will even debate vigorously in case you get shot.

[-Jrabbit]

FWIW, we have some actual facts now...

It turns out the mystery goon squad was actually the Suffolk County Criminal Intelligence Detectives, part of the Suffolk County Police Department. While the Suffolk County PD is technically associated with the JTTF, it wasn’t NSA or FBI or Homeland Security or the JTTF itself that led the investigators to Catalano’s Google searches and then to her home.

It was Catalano’s husband’s former boss.

Apparently, Catalano’s husband worked for a Bay Shore computer company, and the Google searches were conducted on a work computer. The husband’s former boss discovered the dubious searches for “pressure cooker bombs” and “backpacks” and alerted the authorities.

So, no, NSA didn’t flag her Google search; it didn’t suspect her of being a terrorist; and it didn’t dispatch a team of government agents to her house. Not only did this not happen, but NSA would only have been targeting Catalano (using an individual court order) if she or her husband were communicating with suspected terrorists overseas. But none of this matters when there are garments to rend and 140-character outrage porn to be retweeted.

http://thedailybanter.com/2013/08/another-wild-story-about-government-spying-circulates-the-internet-only-to-be-debunked-later/

[PLATO]

I am surprised it took NSA that long to come up with a good cover story.

[-Jrabbit]

They had to buy off the former boss and pay a "fact-check" website to "debunk" the story...