On Friday, 28 June 2002, I sent the
following mail to the FBI:
To: nipc.watch@fbi.gov, oslo@usa.no
From: Tarjei Straume <tastraum@uncletaz.com>
Subject: what the media are saying about me and the FBI....
Cc: worldwidetv.letters@bbc.co.uk, letters@nytimes.com, tips@wired.com
I need some contact info if at all possible
in a situation like this.
Please beware that the content of this message/inquiry
is not urgent or important, and that it has nothing to do with
criminal investigations. It's about a personal PR ego trip. It's
about a claim allegedly being made by the chief of the criminal
police in Norway, Arne Huuse of Kripos, that the FBI is "investigating"
my website. I'm having a ball.
I don't think he has said this directly, but
the media say that he said so - which gives me interesting PR
and increased traffic on my site that I welcome and enjoy - but
because everything mr. Huuse says is always immediately published
nationally like gospel wisdom coming from a prophet, I'd like
to poke a little hole in his balloon. Are you with me so far?
Someone who reads Norwegian can get the story
from the following webpages:
http://uncletaz.com/norsktaz/kripos/eventyr.html
(If you don't read Norwegian, a useful comparison
is the CIA kiddie page at https://www.cia.gov/cia/ciakids/
)
This is my own summary of the background and
the most recent developments, with a highly entertaining climax
dating from a year ago, when mr. Huuse called me on the phone
and demanded that I removed the webpage from the web altogether,
because I was making fun of Kripos and the pages in question
became so popular that they turned up as no. 3 and 4 (of almost
12 thousand results) if you did a search on "Kripos"
at the biggest search engine,
http://www.google.com/. It's still like that.
But now for the real screamer, that has NOT
been published in the media, but which I describe on my own site
(see the above link): Arne Huuse, who is the chief of the criminal
police in Norway, a national icon protecting the public from
crooks and criminals - well, he didn't know how to look up my
name, although my name, address, phone numbers, email etc. is
published all over my site in addition to my very RESUME in Norwegian
and English, PLUS the fact that this domain, uncletaz.com, is
registered in my name at Internic (see http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/
.) All this info - also included in my sig below - is posted
all over my site.
What the police chief told me on the phone
a year ago was that my name had popped up in connection with
the webpage http://uncletaz.com/norsktaz/kripos/
through an FBI investigation. I almost broke out laughing, which
made him pretty angry. I promised to remove the stolen logo (which
I did), but that wasn't enough for him. The entire page (with
its hilarious links) would have to go. On the contrary, I expanded
it and challenged him to prosecute. Nothing of the kind happened,
of course, because there's nothing illegal there without the
Kripos logo.
And now, a year later, the press becomes interested,
so they interview me and they interview Huuse, and they write
headlines saying that Huuse "verifies" that my website
is being investigated by the FBI at his request. A closer look
at these stories reveals that Huuse has not been careless enough
to make such a claim, but only to say that the FBI _HAS_ _BEEN_
_INVOLVED_ in this investigation. Doing what? Looking up my name
with a few mouse clicks because the chief didn't know how? I
need to know. The public needs to know. Every country has the
right to know if their police chief is an idiot. And, I would
add, it's too risky for the FBI to cooperate with police chiefs
around the world who can't tie their own shoes - especially in
such a serious hour as the present.
Here are the media stories from last week
- requiring a knowledge of Norwegian:
http://uncletaz.com/norsktaz/kripos/Kripos_Nettavisen.pdf
http://www.nettavisen.no/servlets/page?section=1&item=219990
http://www.dagsavisen.no/innenriks/apor/2002/06/662683.shtml
http://www.siste.no/59/24/01/7.html
Back to basics: The Norwegian public, the
Norwegian media, and Yours Truly, (and perhaps even the whole
world), need to know that this celebrated supercop of Norway
doesn't appear to have any brains.
Final comment: The U.S. government has to
stop firing feds and G-men for smiling, even involuntarily when
tickled.
Sincerely,
--
Tarjei Straume
Sletteløkka 39a
0597 Oslo
22 25 37 68
993 09 685
http://uncletaz.com/
mailto:tastraum@uncletaz.com
..... and this is what the FBI had to
say:
Delivered-To: uncletaz-tastraum@uncletaz.com
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:21:41 -0400
From: Nipcwatch <nipc.watch@fbi.gov>
Reply-To: nipc.watch@fbi.gov
X-Accept-Language: en-us
To: Tarjei Straume <tastraum@uncletaz.com>
Subject: Re: what the media are saying about me and the FBI....
Thank you for contacting the National Infrastructure
Protection Center (NIPC). The NIPC appreciates your interest
in cyber/infrastructure protection, and recommends you contact
your local FBI office and law enforcement authorities if you
have information concerning possible physical/cyber threats to
U.S. critical infrastructure.
Your e-mail inquiry appears to focus on issues
that are neither within the FBI's jurisdiction nor are specifically
related to critical infrastructure protection.
Sincerely,
~mlm
NIPC Watch and Warning Unit
Conclusion:
Criminal police chief Arne
Huuse of Kripos is full of shit, because my website and my
quarrel with Huuse is