万花筒 2010-03-20&03-21 Facebook成为FBI执法利器

Feds friending on Facebook making profiles on Mysapce linking into LinkedIn and twitting on Twitter,FBI investigators¹ online netting bad guys on social networking sites.

"I actually have several different Myspace and Facebook accounts,I have ones that I personally use and I have ones that I use for work."

Special agent Dan Evans is part of the cyber squad² going undercover in the online world with phony profiles.

"I’ve used all different types of names,and different pictures,and yean I mean,you got to get creative."

A creative and fairly new technique for agents to connect with criminals,detailed in this Department of Justice report.

"A lot of times people we are investigating are posting stuff about themselves on there ,so that’s a very big tool for us."

Private pictures,videos,notes,and targets' contacts too, all tools in crime finding.

"And surprisingly enough those posted stuff on Myspace or Facebook that would give their exact locations and their contact information"

Agent Evans says most often they are logging on to follow suspects who seek out children.

"Cause those people that are specifically looking for kids,so they often go where kids would be and a lot of time that’s can be social networking sites."
 

1 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 squad   

n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组

参考例句：

• The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
• A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。