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A FBI most wanted terrorists poster shows extreme animal rights activist Daniel Andreas San Diego along with other wanted terrorists as San Diego was announced as the latest addition to the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorist List” April 21, 2009 at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC.

Thursday’s release of the FBI’s dossier on Steve Jobs provided some interesting information about Apple’s mercurial visionary and CEO – including past drug use and interviews with people who say he had a penchant to "distort reality." Jobs’ file was warranted given that his name was on the list for a possible appointment under President George H.W. Bush, but what about the rest of us ordinary citizens?

Since the days of J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI has been compiling information on people deemed to be worthy of watching. But what do you have to do to attract their attention? Would buying a copy of "The Anarchist Cookbook," checking out a Noam Chomsky book at your local library, or attending an Occupy protest be enough to get your own FBI file? How do you find out whether or not you’ve got a file with the FBI, and if so, what’s in it? We try to get to the bottom of your top secret self.

Guest:

Mike German, former FBI agent and senior policy counsel for the ACLU