Is Stuart Murdoch A Secret F.B.I. Agent?
“The new rules will also relax a restriction on administering lie-detector tests and searching people’s trash. Under current rules, agents cannot use such techniques until they open a ‘preliminary investigation,’ which — unlike an assessment — requires a factual basis for suspecting someone of wrongdoing. But soon agents will be allowed to use those techniques for one kind of assessment, too: when they are evaluating a target as a potential informant. Agents have asked for that power in part because they want the ability to use information found in a subject’s trash to put pressure on that person to assist the government in the investigation of others.”
— There are lots of reasons why the liberalization of rules in the F.B.I.’s Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide seems like a very bad idea. But the announcement of the changes gives a clue as to what might really be going on in the new video for the Belle and Sebastian’s “Come On Sister.”
Ike Turner, too. (Who, you know, you probably suspected was working for the government all along.)
And Johnny Rivers, who was more upfront about it.