Want to See What Was in the FBI’s File on Steve Jobs?
- Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:26pm by
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Steve Jobs was investigated by the FBI in 1991.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released its nearly 200-page file on the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
Gawker reports that Jobs underwent investigation in 1991 when he was up for appointment to former President George Bush’s export council. It also notes that a bomb threat in 1985 was investigated and included in the file.
Let’s take a peak inside.
- Jobs was a hard man to pin down. “Mr. Jobs’ secretary informed [a special agent (SA)] that Mr. Jobs was unavailable for an interview for three weeks. Mr. Jobs could not even see SA for an hour.”
- Jobs used drugs in the past. “Several friends commented concerning past drug use on the part of Mr. Jobs.” Jobs himself also commented on his past drug use.
- Jobs was a go-getter. “Several individuals questioned Mr. Jobs’ honesty stating that Mr. Jobs will twist and distort reality in order to achieve his goals.“ One said he ”possesses integrity as long as he gets his way.” Another person said they questioned Jobs’ morality and ethics.
- Jobs became a more supportive father over time. Several interviewees spoke of Jobs and treatment of the child he had out of wedlock. One said he “abandoned” mother and child but had recently become more supportive of them.
Overall, feelings toward Jobs were mixed. Although, many of the interviews had favorable opinions toward him, recommending him to the position. Some noted that Jobs lived within his financial means, was good at delegating and didn’t exhibit any tendencies toward racism. It very rare anyone considered himself or herself a close friend of Jobs.
See the full file here.
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Comments (51)
Ramv36
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:33pmI don’t really care what the FBI thinks about Steve Jobs. I’ve vehemently disliked him ever since I heard about his core philosophy, which was “Sometimes people don’t know they need a product until you tell them they need it”. In other words, don’t build a better product, but build your product then convince people they have to have it, instead of a product that may be better and/or less expensive.
Report Post »Both Bernays and Goebbels, were they alive today, would write books about Apple’s marketing strategy, as it absolutely proves and validates the methods they developed and advanced in their own times.
Jobs was an idea man. His innovation success is directly attributable to none other than those who actually designed and built his products. They are the ones who deserve acclaim more than any.
Mrs. Bowers
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:18pmThis is none of our business. The man is not alive and cannot defend himself. This is wrong to make public this report.
Report Post »hi
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:51pmI think it is unacceptable to release such private information.
Sounds like he had Aspergers.
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:19pmI agree. Where does the FBI get off releasing such information? One thing to collect it, another thing entirely to dump it to the media several months after his death.
Report Post »Ramv36
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:41pmIt wasn’t dumped by anyone. It was requested via FOIA, the Freedom of Information Act. Any citizen could have done it as long as the file isn’t sensitive or classified. I mean, even though I’d like to see them, releasing Obama’s school transcripts to the public domain is a gross violation of his privacy in my opinion (although your expectation of privacy when you are a public figure, as both Jobs was and Obama are, is grossly different than for a private citizen).
Next are we going to be outraged at the indignity of cremating his body?
Personally, I’ll wait until Steve Jobs himself personally complains about his privacy being violated before playing the indignation card, so basically never. It’s rather hard to victimize the dead.
Report Post »ColorMeRedd
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:55amThe FBI wasn’t keeping taps on Jobs, they were conducting an interview of him and people who knew him in order to determine if he was an acceptable canidate for Bush 41′s administration. Read the article.
Report Post »Otlw7605
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:49pmThis is a standard security clearance paperwork. He was aware of this, and the investigator talked to people he knows and works with, knowing what this is for. This is the same one that those in the military and government. The investigation side is no different.
Report Post »gtrissel
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:26pmthe article says he was being investigated because he was being considered for a position on bushes cabinet…
Report Post »acovenantinblood
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 6:57pmWhy does the FBI have a file on Steve Jobs? Do they have one on me? Oh no! Am I being watched? I thought I saw unmarked cars in my neighborhood! I could have sworn I saw a predator drone above my house the other day! I guess Steve Jobs and I are more dangerous that Muslims and Mexican drug cartels!
Report Post »LB
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:44pmOr Obama for that matter..
Report Post »Ramv36
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:47pmIf you’ve ever made an international call or sent an email to another country, you may not have an FBI file, but you’re info has most assuredly been placed on file somewhere at the NSA. Extra-Continental communications in any form are squarely within their mandate, and they process BILLIONS of overseas phone calls/email on a daily basis.
How worried are you about your Social Security file? It’ll have a copy of your Birth Cert, immunization records, SSN, passport info, every school you’ve ever attended from birth, AND (the big one) a list of every employer you’ve ever had, plus an accounting of every cent you’ve ever made from those employers.
So yeah, be paranoid about what the gov’t has on file about you, because they have a LOT, on everyone, somewhere.
Report Post »geomann
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 6:57pmI clicked on this story thinking the FBI suspected him of something. Instead, it seems they make a hobby out of investigating people for no reason.
Report Post »Macman1138
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:23pmInvestigating is how things are found out, good, bad or otherwise.
Report Post »holy ghostbuster
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:52pmJobs was not “under investigation.” He was up for an appointment for a government position and this was nothing more than a background investigation that is done for anyone who works with the government on sensitive issues. Jobs is the one that filled out the SF86 form shown in this article. It’s called a questionnaire because the applicant fills it out. Again, the Blaze distorting the issue and trying to make something out of nothing.
Report Post »Ramv36
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:22pm@Holy Ghostbuster
Actually, it was Gawker who, in their article used the phrase ‘background investigation’. Blaze even cites their article; they are simply the messenger.
The FBI did conduct a background investigation on Jobs as a term of his prospective appointment. The product of that investigation was, naturally, placed on record in a file, which could accurately be called an ‘FBI File’ as it was filed by the FBI. These are facts, and are not disputed.
Therefore, you cannot claim distortion of facts from a headline reading “Want to see the FBI’s files from their investigation on Steve Jobs?”, as it is a factual statement.
I once let my college roommate, a Kuwaiti, borrow my cell phone to call home with. Based on that, there is a high likelihood there is a ‘NSA File’ in my name, as monitoring overseas calls is within their mandate. My file with the NSA probably has no details more salacious than ‘A call was placed from his phone to an Arab country in 2008 that lasted 3 minutes’, but being that it’s maintained by a well-known Government alphabet agency, people immediately suspect some dirt on you they’ve been looking into.
Report Post »My brother-in-law lost his Top Secret clearance recently due to the NSA watching him. His crime? He got divorced, started gambling, and began finding solace talking to women in foreign web-chat rooms, which were monitored. Family change+financial troubles+contact w/ foreign nationals = security risk = clearance pulled…which als
docholiday-
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:09pmdude – READ, as in READ the article – you are the reason there are infomercials
Report Post »daddyh
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:54pm“live within his means” Ha! I would hope so.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 6:22pmNever liked Steve Jobs. Always that he was the kind of deranged businessman who would have had a great relationship with the Nazis back in the day. He would have helped make them billions using concentration camp Jews for labor, much like how Apple uses cheap-as-dirt Chinese labor now. I have never owned anything Apple and never will.
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:43pm“Didn’t exhibit any tendencies toward racism” -that’s the number one issue Bolsheviks look for in a candidate. All their one track minds think about is racism and gays. So one dimensional. Liberalism is truly a mental illness.
Report Post »ValdostaMRA
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:39pmWhy would they leave his DOB and SSN visible for the internet to see?
Report Post »Mojoron
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 6:14pmHe’s dead. You can find any dead persons SS# on the internet, that is how ancestry folks find their relatives.
Report Post »Manchurian.Candidate
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:38pmI don’t know why anyone would be surprised by this? Annoyed, sure. But surprised?
Report Post »The FBI has a file on your DOG for Christ’s sake. Maybe even his fleas.
WAKEUPUSA2012
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:06pmThe FREAKING fbi. Damn feds more than likely have files on everyone
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:22pmHey FBI, let‘s see Obama’s file, at least he’s alive to defend himself.
Report Post »Epic Fail
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:32pmWe‘ll see that as soon as we see Obumo’s college transcripts and original birth certificate.
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:41pmI wish! That would literally take an Act of Congress. And that would almost never happen in today’s society.
Report Post »MS-GlenNBC
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:07pmWatch out Gonzo, you’ll be next.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:21pmWhy would they release his file? Who’s business is it what was in his file. Was he guilty of some crime? This is B.S.
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 4:49pmHe was a wealthy and prosperous self-made business man.. THAT is the crime he commited (or at least that is what Das Fuhrer and his admin. would say..)
Report Post »Drew Mudd
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:20pmI agree!! Who cares!!!! Look at what is being played out RIGHT IN FRONT OF US BY Barry Sorteno when it comes to our“ False Flag” Commander & !@#$%^&*)_
Report Post »He can’t even pass E-VERIFY with that BS- SSN! Obvious he’s a Fake!
**** Yo Barry,. I have a new program I want you to promote/ support !!! Heads up now you Obama support people, aka Comies. Here is the new bail out idea…its good too….
Here ya go;
I’ll promise to vote for you and you make a HB call,” I give Up,”.
I don‘t like it here ain’t more,HB ,I just want to be Free, away from your way! I won’t say ,,Promise!. I wish to relocaate to some place else on the planet where I’ll never hear about you destruction of our once home ever again!
THE END, You pay me to leave so you can bring Islam to America with Apple pie, fine just pay me and boat load of GOLD or money thats worth soemthing some I can live out my last couple years and never hear your lying out look again…Now You Have to Promise… I mean Swear or the Bible! not you book of choice but my book Dude! SWEAR GOD DAM IT!!!and I will take $1 Trillion..seems to be the going amount, and I’ll never say a word about your !@#$%^&*(*&^% administration for the last lonely days of my life. But, Don’t you RE- NIG now Brother , Kool Smoker, Thsi is a hand shake with Spit!,
You obviously know how to get in touch I meant it Bro
. Just send me the cash…its got to be in Gold because , who knows what the worth of a US Dollar will be in yo
Manchurian.Candidate
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:23pmThe file is dated FEB. 1991. I believe G.H.W.Bush was Das Fuhrer at the time of the FBI investigation which had to have been on going for some time previous to that date, wouldn’t you say?
Report Post »holy ghostbuster
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:54pmIt’s called the Freedom of Information Act and since he is dead, it is no longer privileged.
Report Post »Dinkiecb
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:53pmWe are your FBI and we‘re here to have alittle ’chat’ with you .. so you may as well confess now!
Report Post »RagingJudge
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:41pmI question his ethics too. His success was built upon a Bernays-style marketing department and not product quality and function.
And people are still falling for it.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:20pmHis success has always been as a salesman. He’s never been the innovative mind the brand loyal fanboys give him credit for.
Steve wozniak was the brains behind apple initially, and jobs drove the company to the brink of bankruptcy with hairbrained ideas until they fired him. He also gets false praise for the success of pixar studios. Pixar was already a fully functioning operation that had toy story almost finished by the time jobs fell into the picture.
And apple’s resurgence in more recent decades has more to do with reproducing things that were already on the market and slapping an apple logo on them than any actual innovation.
Report Post »florida123
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:40pmThe question that comes to my mind is why would anyone cooperate with the FBI? I mean if they came to me and asked questions about my friend or neighbor i wouldnt really be so eager with them. Good grief people trust the gov’t more than they trust their friends and neighbors?
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:22pmUmm…maybe because he was a candidate for appointment to a government position and that’s part of the screening process. It’s no different than listing references when you apply for any job.
Report Post »jjufon
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:28pmJobs provided the list folks for them to interview on his app. this happens to anyone who seeks to get a Gov clearance.
(secret or top secret)
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 4:46pm@JJUFON — In the years of old, I went through three security checks, one for confidential and two for secret, and I NEVER suggested individuals to be interrogated!!!!!!
The FBI conducted the investigations with ZERO input from me!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Ramv36
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:53pm“why would anyone cooperate with the FBI?”
Subpoena power mostly. Also, keep in mind that there are currently over TEN THOUSAND Federal Laws in effect. Can you tell for sure you’re not in violation of ANY of them? Because the FBI will know, and even if they don’t, if you’re uncooperative it is within their mandated powers to arrest you until they can ascertain which, if any, federal law you’ve violated.
Report Post »THAT is a very powerful incentive to cooperate. Personally, though not that I’ve had experience with this, were I asked to be interviewed by the FBI, I wouldn’t even look in their direction without the presence of a lawyer for on-the-spot real-time legal advice.
Diablo4965
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:25pmYou would think they would have blacked out his SS#?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:08pmI hate to see what they have on me. I wont even fly because I am afraid i am on a watch list. Buy enough guns and ammo and you are in deep doo doo…no matter the legality of it.
Thanks big sis…you beotch..
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:03pmGive it a rest – Slimeballs
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:59pmI judge the difference in people between… Good & Bad; Rich & Poor; Friend & Foe; Honest & Fibber; Cute & Ugly… etc! It is a Brain Function called Discrimination… and prevents me from eating Poop!
Get real people!
Report Post »sensible99
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:58pmI agree. Fascinated though we may be by celebrities, this has no place in the public eye. On the other hand, it would be interesting to see the FBI file on Glen Beck. Obama probably keeps a copy on his desk in the Oval Office.
Report Post »ValiantDefender
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:40pmHypocrisy much?
I‘d be interested in seeing GB’s file too. As well as Obamas…and authority to do something about it.
Report Post »Searchingforthelight
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:49pmWow People can be so judge-mental.
Report Post »OTBoxer
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:39pmCan FBI files and liberty co-exist in the same place? A: they can’t.
Report Post »For info on how to achieve actual liberty read DEMOCRACY-The God That Failed.
edcoil
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:38pmNo, I don’t want to see it and I think we should let private citizens when they pass, rest in peace.
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