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It gets more surreal daily: Operation TIPS to America's Most Wanted
Operation TIPS is getting more surreal all the time. Salon is reporting (in its subscribers only section) that when its reporter who had signed up to be a TIPster called the Department of Justice TIPS line, his phone call was transferred to a receptionist at "America's Most Wanted", who told him "We've been asked to take the FBI's TIPS calls for them."
I am flabbergasted - I can't think of anything to add to this story.
The ACLU put out a press release with more of the details of the story, for those who aren't Salon subscribers. Their commentary:
"This is like retaining Arthur Andersen to do all of the SEC's accounting," said Rachel King, an ACLU Legislative Counsel. "It's a completely inappropriate and frightening intermingling of government power and the private sector. What's next - the government hires Candid Camera to do its video surveillance?"
Tip o' the hat to the mighty snoops at Strangelove, where I saw this first. I suspect it will be all over the net by tomorrow.
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What will they think of next? 
