WPP

Think back to your childhood, or somewhere around there.  Have you ever had an acquaintence or friend who was there one day and without warning, was gone without a trace?  Well, what if they were in fact in the Federal Witness Protection Program?

This was a rather interesting idea I had in the twilight period between sleeping and waking, and it really got me thinking.

I don't know much about the WPP, but I help pay for it and thousands of lives have been saved by it.  But I reallyy wonder about its intricacies.  Who develops the new identities for the victims?  How do the US Marshals monitor the victims while in WPP?  Haas anyone ever purposefully blown their cover because they were tired of hiding?

Also, how are the towns selected?  Wouldn't it be kind of obvious or at the least suspicious if these random strangers kept appearing and disappearing in some little po' dunk town?  And then when they just disappear after awhile?  Well, that's assuming they ever move.  Has there ever been an occasion where a townspeerson has dug a little too deep and possibly uncovered some of the victims true past?

And what if the stories begin to overlap?  Assuming that more than one victim is sent to the same town more than once.  Are files kept that detail what covers have been used there before?  And what if the Feds positioned victims near a former person whom they did not get along with and that bitter individual blew their cover?  I'm sure the US gov't is meticulous but accidents do happen.  I wonder what the protocol is in a case like that....?

So many questions, and no answers.  I guess I'll have to make up my own.  ;)