The Geek Squad Is a Bunch of Narcs

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained documents showing that the FBI and Best Buy's Geek Squad have maintained a rather cozy relationship over the past decade. Memos and other records released through FOIA requests confirm reports from last year of Geek Squad members serving as paid FBI informants. They also reveal new details about how closely federal agents and Geeks communicated with one another. We first learned of a possible working relationship between the two groups last April during the child pornography trial of a gynecological oncologist named Mark Rettenmaier in California, who had taken his computer in for a repair at Best Buy. The customer service representatives there sent the computer to the main Geek Squad City facility in Brooks, Kentucky, where technicians discovered evidence of child porn and reported it to the FBI.