The FBI and Secret Service confirmed Monday that they have joined the Cambridge and MIT police departments to help investigate an unfounded tip that a gunman was roaming a Massachusetts Institute of Technology building Saturday morning.
Steven Ricciardi, director of the Secret Service’s Boston field office, said the agency’s electronic crimes task force is involved because the incident “does have a component to it that’s associated to the Internet.”
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Sequestration is due on Friday, and Boston-based Secret Service and FBI agents have so much free time and assurance that they will stay on the job that they can assign who knows how many personnel to this stupid hoax? Not saying it's not something to focus on - but a reasoned approach to letting Cambridge and MIT police do their jobs without feds seems like common sense. The big question still seems to be why MIT bureaucrats took so long to notify students what was up.
I didn't realize the Secret Service was responsible for resolving the sequestration.