"BUT IF YOU GO CARRYING
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Federal agents' visit was a hoax

Updating this story from a last week. From the Massachusetts Standard-Times courtesy of the Daily Kos:

But on Thursday, when the student told his tale in the office of UMass Dartmouth professor Dr. Robert Pontbriand to Dr. Williams, Dr. Pontbriand, university spokesman John Hoey and The Standard-Times, the student added new details.

The agents had returned, the student said, just last night. The two agents, the student, his parents and the student's uncle all signed confidentiality agreements, he claimed, to put an end to the matter.

But when Dr. Williams went to the student's home yesterday and relayed that part of the story to his parents, it was the first time they had heard it. The story began to unravel, and the student, faced with the truth, broke down and cried.

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Annoying, to say the least. I don't know what the hell this kid was thinking, but it sure did make him look like a fool. Apart from the fact that it's a hassle for me to issue a retraction, this helps makes the entire category of unbelievable White House abuses, well, unbelievable. That's a problem because it seems that true unbelievable White House abuses are making it into the headlines every week. Man, if this were a New York Times or CBS story you can bet you sweet patooty that Karl Rove would be using it to whip up one of those bullshit debates that somehow "proves" that the NSA scandal is of little importance. Fortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case here, but I'm sure you follow my point. What was this guy thinking?

More on this from Orcinus here.

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