Three weeks ago my english class and I went to a journalism workshop. The workshop was held bey FBI agents. They vasically gave us pointers hon how to properly interrogate a person, in a sense a way yto get all the answers that a person is looking for. Two FBI agents spoke about their experiences as agents aswell. They spoke about how they were involved in the 9/11 interagation. One of the FBI agents stated that he was able to get a lot of information about the man wwithout the man directly telling him what his purpose was in being a terrorist.
He stated that the guy stated that was in college and hung out with a lot of radicals from Afghanistan or some where in that country. He had the decision of either staying in college or going to his country to protest. He chooe to go bback to the country and when he did from there that is how he become involved into the radical groups which then led him to become involved in his country as a terrorist to America.
I found this very interesting because one it makes you think how influential college and clubs can be. To picture this man being a college student to a terrorist is something i would have found hard to imagine. Also it is also interesting how someone can ask a totally different question to distract the interviewee from realizing theyy are giving up important informatino for the FBI to put all the pieces together.
It made me also reassure myself that when i often here or see information that i use to assume something, now i can actually go with my initial feelings, which are to believe my assumptions. If those FBI agents can gather information to make an acquirate assumtion than I can to. (Lol) My ex boyfriend once related me to an FBI agent, when i use to put the pieces of his actions together and come up with an assumption. And guess what? MOst times i was Right about Everything He was Doing! But anyway, (lol) I learned a lot from the journalism workshop with the FBI agents. It made me rethink my approach on whenever in the future I need to know something important without directly asking the question.