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Old 01-16-2008, 11:53 AM
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I appreciate the way this guy thinks. I relate to the "Go with the flow" mentality, then... when they least expect it, and from a direction they're not looking... cram it down their throats....

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Once an FBI suspect, Hasan Elahi now does the FBI a favor by monitoring himself every minute of the day.
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What would you do if you were suspected of a crime that could send you to a jail cell in Guantanamo Bay for untold years?
When it happened to Hasan Elahi, he decided to put his life online, for all to see.
The 35-year-old Rutgers University art professor was born in Bangladesh but raised in America. He was flying back home to the U.S. in 2002 when he was stopped at immigration and led to a detention facility in the Detroit Airport.
Elahi was asked about a storage unit he had once rented in Florida. The FBI had gotten a tip that it had been packed with explosives, and that an Arab man had fled from the area the day after the 9/11 attacks.
The tip ended up being false ("Never mind that I'm not an Arab," Elahi notes), but it took him nine lie-detector tests and six months to clear his name. When the FBI finally told him he was no longer a suspect, he requested a letter from them saying exactly that.
But, he says, the FBI refused: Because he was never officially charged, there was also nothing to officially clear. Instead, the agency gave him a phone number and told him to call if he had any more troubles coming in and out of the country.
Shaken by the experience, Elahi started calling the FBI preemptively, telling them of his travel plans, where he would be going and when he would be flying home. But as time went on, Elahi considered how absurd the process was — and upped the ante. He started sending the FBI email and even uploading time-stamped photos of his movements.
He eventually created a website, trackingtransience.net, in which those photos were automatically posted to a map, creating a visual tracking device of where he was at any time.
Elahi saw the act as protection, protest and art, flooding the web with so much information — photographs of every meal, every airport, and even public urinals that he used — that the very density of it all, while public and available for everyone to see, created a new sense of anonymity. He was hiding in plain sight. And while the photographs give away his location, they never include himself — only his point of view.
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So, when life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Or more aptly... When the FBI hands you lemons, make lemonade and then force feed it to them. They should've simply given him a letter instead of stonewalling him. Nevertheless, he's a smart guy for figuring out an outlet to vent that's quite legal... and very ironic.
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Typical government bs...this has happened so many times. I was personally involved on the periphery of investigations lead by the FBI and SEC where those being investigated were cleared. But when they asked for formal letters stating such (these being both individuals and corporations) they were told no because they were never formally named as suspects. The SEC in particular is notorious for this because they rarely call someone a suspect in an investigation until they have been charged or charges are imminent. So you can have your name (or your company's name) plastered all over the WSJ as a suspect in an SEC investigation, yet if you are "cleared" no one will ever know because you were never officially named to begin with. It's ridiculous.
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the FBI should've simply given him a letter instead of stonewalling him.
No doubt. The government is at fault here, as usual.

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Nevertheless, he's a smart guy for figuring out an outlet to vent that's quite legal... and very ironic.
VERY ironic. There needs to be a way to correct this. Couldn't hurt to at least write your Senators and Representatives.
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