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| 'Do you like camping?' FBI Uses 48 Questions to Calculate a Person's Terrorism Risk
Determining whether someone will carry out a terrorist attack is a struggle for governments across the globe. However, the FBI uses a survey of 48 questions to help them decide – and one of the indicators is apparently if a person likes to go camping. The 'Indicators of Mobilization to Violence' survey, obtained by the Intercept in a classified FBI document, has reportedly been used by the FBI since the fall of 2015. In a series of 48 questions, the survey assigns points based on certain factors. There are six categories: background, ideology, research and planning, social, training and preparation, and travel. Some of the questions seem logical for the agency to ask, such as if the suspect has "articulated a desire to conduct violent jihad," whether they have "participated in gatherings where plotting violence is discussed," or are a "regular consumer of extremist propaganda." Others focus on the subject's emotional state, such as whether there has been a significant change in their