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INTERNET INTELLIGENCE REPORTING

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When the subject is interviewed on an issue that arose due to the

results of an Internet investigation, it is important to have ready a doc-

ument with those results to support the interview. The use of the term

confrontational interview (twice above and here) is not to suggest that the

interview is hostile or aggravated in any way. Rather, it is designed to

allow the interviewer to attempt to elicit from the subject the facts and

circumstances surrounding the items found during the Internet investiga-

tion. Experience has shown that at rst, subjects tend to omit potentially

embarrassing postings. When given the opportunity—because they are

confronted with apparent knowledge on the part of the ...