Did the media get punked again (on internet search tip off)?

[pnwmom]

1. Are you saying the Suffolk Police punked the media by releasing a false statement?

Because they didn't get it up on their website?


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/02/suffolk-county-home-search-tipoff

Late on Thursday, Suffolk County police said its investigation was in fact prompted by a tipoff, and not covert monitoring. "Suffolk County criminal intelligence detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee," Suffolk County said in a statement.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/02/michele-catalano-husband-_n_3695139.html?utm_hp_ref=new-york

NEW YORK -- A former employee of a New York computer company was questioned after his workplace computer search history revealed inquiries for "pressure cooker bombs" and "backpacks," but no criminality was determined, the Suffolk County Police Department said in a statement Thursday.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-knocking-doors-because-google-searches/67864/

The Suffolk County Police Department released a statement this evening that answers the great mystery of the day.
Suffolk County Criminal Intelligence Detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee. The former employee’s computer searches took place on this employee’s workplace computer. On that computer, the employee searched the terms “pressure cooker bombs” and “backpacks.”

After interviewing the company representatives, Suffolk County Police Detectives visited the subject’s home to ask about the suspicious internet searches. The incident was investigated by Suffolk County Police Department’s Criminal Intelligence Detectives and was determined to be non-criminal in nature.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/02/google_search_pressure_cooker_saga_shows_surveillance_fueled_paranoia_mistrust.html

It turns out that the cops were tipped off the old-fashioned way—by the former employer of Catalano’s husband, who saw that he had made searches about pressure cooker bombs and backpacks on a work computer, freaked out, and went to the police. Suffolk County Police Department issued a statement late Thursday confirming the details,