> ...and this person totally freaked out. It sounds to me more like old fashioned FBI "bumper lock". This is when they attempt to provoke some sort of action

> ...and this person totally freaked out. It sounds to me more like old fashioned FBI "bumper lock". This is when they attempt to provoke some sort of action on the part of a person under investigation. This very publicly backfired for them in the anthrax investigation, when one target killed himself under the stress and the other got super pissed off and met them head on with press conferences.