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Of Friendsters and Foes is a Village Voice article about the Whitney Museum's display of the social-network-related art of the late Mark Lombardi, who drew pencil diagrams of the tangled relationships among people involved in the BCCI scandal (including the Bush family and Saddam Hussein). Lombardi killed himself in 2000. The Voice article was prompted by the revelation that the FBI requested access to the materials (and was told that the material was on public exhibit during normal museum hours). The author speculates that perhaps nothing as elaborate as Poindexter's Total Information Awareness boondoggle is necessary when people voluntarily expose their social networks.