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CONTACT THE FBI
Contact the FBI. How would you do that online? How about www.ContactTheFBI.com.
A few weeks after the 9/11 attacks, I got on the FBI’s website and was appalled to discover they were still using their fraud hotline for tips. I wrote to the Attorney General. No answer. So I wrote to the Secretary of Homeland Security. No answer. Never heard from the FBI Director, either. But in short order, the fraud hotline, www.ifccfbi.gov, disappeared, replaced by a terrorist hotline, www.tips.fbi.gov.
www.tips.fbi.gov and 866-483-5137, how easy are those to remember? And most people associate the Internet with dot com, not biz, info, net, org, edu, and the rest of the alphabet soup. 5 years into the Internet and nobody had ever thought of registering the ultimate domain name for providing information to our most crucial investigative agency. 2 years into the war on terrorism and I still had not heard from any of these 3 gentlemen. I even let it expire, then registered it again. Which means the idea had disappeared from their radar.
How about ContactTheFBI@Yahoo.com or ContactTheFBI@Hotmail.com. Yahoo and Hotmail are the 2 most famous email service companies in the world. Yet until I registered them a few days ago, these addresses were dormant.
I’m not at liberty to discuss the strategies I proposed and have in mind. Suffice it to say, terrorists make good use of the Internet.
As of this writing, 10:15 a.m., 12/23/2003, no one had registered www.contacthomelandsecurity.com. www.contactthefbi.gov was not in use. The Department of Homeland Security is using a torturous URL instead of the simple www.homelandsecurity.gov. I haven’t checked if anyone has registered www.contactthecia.com, contactthecia@yahoo.com, or contactthecia@hotmail.com. Would anyone like to register contacthomelandsecurity@yahoo.com and contacthomelandsecurity@hotmail.com?
Try this from the Attorney General's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, shortly after 9/11 and apparently before I wrote to him, in which he lists the FBI's web and phone hotlines: "I also urge Americans to notify immediate immediately the FBI of any suspicious circumstances that may come to their attention regarding crop-dusting aircraft, or any other possible terrorist threat. The FBI Web site is www.ifccfbi.gov -- pardon me, .org -- that's www.ifccfbi.org. Our toll free telephone number is 866-483- 5137 -- 866 -- that's toll-free -- 866-483-5137." Which is it, www.ifccfbi.gov or www.ifccfbi.org?
For your convenience, contact links for the agencies discussed are below.
Contact the FBI
Contact Homeland Security
Contact the CIA
FBI Field Offices
FBI Embassy Offices
Send E-Mail to: contactthefbi@yahoo.com
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