Re:Richard Feynman Put Himself on the FBI’s Do Not Call List
by gozur88 on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @09:56PM
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>Little known fact, but all you have to do is ask not to be contacted
You can absolutely refuse to talk to the FBI.
Security services are in a bind when it comes to people like Feynman. On the one hand, experienced agents would have known this guy was no Soviet spy. On the other, every time someone makes an accusation they're sort of duty bound to at least ask him about it, because if it later turns out he is up to something nefarious people will accuse them of ignoring the evidence. That's just how bureaucracies work, and you don't move up in that sort of environment by ignoring the ground rules.
I suspect whoever was charged with running down poison whispers was perfectly happy to be ordered to stop. They got to stop wasting time and concentrate on stuff that might matter, while at the same time on the outside chance it came back to bite them they had documentation of being ordered to ignore him, effectively shuffling the blame up the ladder.
You can absolutely refuse to talk to the FBI.
Security services are in a bind when it comes to people like Feynman. On the one hand, experienced agents would have known this guy was no Soviet spy. On the other, every time someone makes an accusation they're sort of duty bound to at least ask him about it, because if it later turns out he is up to something nefarious people will accuse them of ignoring the evidence. That's just how bureaucracies work, and you don't move up in that sort of environment by ignoring the ground rules.
I suspect whoever was charged with running down poison whispers was perfectly happy to be ordered to stop. They got to stop wasting time and concentrate on stuff that might matter, while at the same time on the outside chance it came back to bite them they had documentation of being ordered to ignore him, effectively shuffling the blame up the ladder.