FBI COFFEEHOUSE READING MATERIAL STORY REDUX

Now it's in the first person. A while back, Eric Muller discussed a story in the Chapel Hill News about an FBI visit triggered by a "tip" someone in a coffeehouse gave regarding someone who was reading something suspicious. (He first thought the story was bogus, see here.) The original article by Carol Henderson is here.

Now, via Atrios, you can read a first-person narrative on the episode, here. Budding journalist Marc Schultz claims that he was reading this column at the coffee shop, and that that was enough to get him a visit from the FBI.

Is any or all of this story true? I wasn't there, so I really have no idea, but my "default rules" tell me that it is possible, especially in an age in which a conversation overheard in a Shoney's can lead authorities to block off Interstate 75 and activate the bomb squad.