Since I talked to the FBI, I've now had a chance to talk to both my mother and brother (the eyewitnesses to what transpired). If you're coming in late, my brother, Richard Chiu, submitted a sarcastic letter to the FBI via their website. Subsequently a group of flak-jacketed law enforcement personnel with rifles showed up at my brother's home, were allowed into the home by my mother where they tasered ... Continue reading »

Just got off the phone with John Wright, who is the supervisor in the Provo FBI office. According to him, the FBI's involvement was merely to forward the letter they got to the local authorities. All the law enforcement, then, was performed by the Provo PD with one Joint Terrorism Task Force person (a sheriff's deputy whose been deputized for the JTTF). This JTTF person was either at the scene or ... Continue reading »

HUMINT is intelligence from human sources, as opposed to intelligence derived from signals (SIGINT), for example. I'm aware of a few times when the FBI has relied on HUMINT. The first instance involved a friend who found himself living next to a GRU agent, back during the Cold War. Said friend volunteered to act as a counter-espionage agent. Eventually enough data was accumulated to declare the GRU agent persona non grata and ... Continue reading »

One reason I titled my web page "The Worlds of Meg Stout" is that I have multiple passions. When one of my interests emerges as my passion du jour, it becomes pretty all-encompassing. Anyway, my latest kick/passion/obsession has been putting together 72-hour evacuation kits for our family. There's a pretty comprehensive check list at lds.about.com (http://lds.about.com/library/bl/preparation/72_hour_kit.pdf). I've got most of the standard stuff assembled. I put the items in a 10 gal ... Continue reading »

I'm loving on livestrong.com. A couple of weeks ago my husband got me a pedometer. I was annoyed, not at the implication that I needed to exercise (I do), but because I wanted the version you can put in a purse and hook up to a computer. I wanted to be cool like a friend who has a USB pedometer and walks 10,000 steps a day. I pouted. But I put on ... Continue reading »