"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:UBfQb.4483$U%5.26339@attbi_s03...
Seriously, instead of doing a big background check and looking up all your
papers, sounds like the agent did the smart thing -- he just asked you. He
was able to learn a lot more about you and the issues involved that way.
They would have noticed if you had tried to flee.

Right. Had he been a real terrorist, Michael would have evaporated into thin
air when the doofus FBI agent left his card on his door.

FWIW, that could have been something they were watching for. Just
because no one is answering calls at the office, doesn't mean no
one is working.

Criminy -- this "special agent" acted less covertly than I did

But we don't know that, actually. In fact, we don't know how
much investigation he'd done before contacting Michael; if he
*had* looked in his INS file/bank account/whatever, from an
abstract POV it would seem to be a sound strategy to try to
persuade the interviewee that you have no prior info, so that
you can see how well what you're told matches up with what you
already know.

I'm not trying to suggest that's what actually happened, just
pointing out the appearance shouldn't be taken for the whole.

Cheers,
Sydney