On Aug 17, the day the article shows the âhappy campâ search string being used, the Happy Camp Complex wildfire that started on Aug. 12 had already burned several thousand acres in Siskiyou County, California.
âCreepyâ? Only in the imagination of the ignorant.
I donât even find the âebola black marketâ search to be creepy, certainly not for DHS. If someone were to try and use it as a bio/terror weapon, then samples of the virus on the black market would be one way to do so. Isnât that the sort of thing that the DHS should be investigating? Why is it scary that someone at DHS did a google search of that again?
Likewise, âblack+market+ebolaâ shows up as a DHS search string on 9/12/2014.
Searching for Google News hits on âblack market ebolaâ on that date turns up a whole batch of stories, topped by the Daily Mailâs rather breathless Ebola âtreatmentâ made from the blood of survivors is being traded on a new black market emerging amid the outbreak
So, is it really âdownright terrifyingâ that the DHS would be searching for those particular terms on that particular day?
Or is someone once again getting all worked up (or, worse, wanting me to get all worked up?) based on nothing but ignorance and imagination and fear?
If this is what passes for âwatching the watchersâ, then itâs a waste of time.
This isnât information, itâs entertainment.
(And as entertainment, itâs a pale BeavisânâButthead imitation at best. âAnything I donât understand is either weird, or scary, or fodder for sarcasm and snark.â Pretty pathetic, really.)
Unless the DHS analysts were searching âHow to disband the TSAâ and/or âtransparent government in actionâ, itâs just mundane, daily activity. Not really newsworthy at all.
NowâŚif the FOIA request had come back with daily searches from one of their analysts for â(boobs || b00bs || breasttts) && michelle obamaâ, etc., that would be entertainment.
On Aug 17, the day the article shows the âhappy campâ search string being used
Agreed. When I first saw the search term before checking the date, I thought it was going to be something about The Earth First rally earlier in the year that local law enforcement treated as if it were a national security issue. Nope, the search was timed right during the period where people were evacuating due to a forest fire.
This was poorly researched at best, and doesnât help build the case for all the things DHS does do wrong. Itâs like someone just said âhappy camp. That looks weird. put it in there.â
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