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I encourage all to look at the DNS hosting records for fbi.gov. They are bizarre. There is a big identity question with who the FBI is right now. I'm not confident any unit or person is from the FBI until I see strong evidence / identification they bring with them.

A good example is how more and more subdomains keep slipping behind CloudFlare. Those could be hosted anywhere.

Another example, which I spoke to the FBI Los Angeles office this morning about, is Infragard Los Angeles. They literally have subdomains hosted in mainland China. What is going on here? [1]

[1] - https://www.infragardlosangeles.org/

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Looks like the glowies and spooks are already out and doing damage control based on the color of your post. :(

I DV'd after reading the first three sentences. DNS records are not ample evidence that a government organization's identity is in question. I can think of a lot of reasons why the records would be so diverse.

So to me this is not only illogical, irrational, and invalid on its face, but it's also muddying already-muddy waters while failing to meet that qualitative standard. By all means update us again when there's more credible evidence.

Jumping from DNS records to massive efforts to undermine/impersonate/subvert parts of the FBI is quite a leap.

I'm sure the OP's LA FBI contact appreciated the laugh they had when their local Dwight Schrute called them to complain about the web hosting of the "private" part of a public-private partnership.

Yes, it's well known that the FBI deploys teams of agents to downvote comments on posts on HN.

It's definitely not that most people think this kind of talk is insane. Definitely not that. It's the FBI.

No gaslighting, please. It's called COINTELPRO. Here is a great resource for those that aren't aware: https://archive.is/YpeXZ

If you really want to go down rabbit holes, COINTELPRO was run by Mark Felt, who is better known as Deep Throat.

No, it’s not called COINTELPRO. That was a program from half a century ago. Nobody left at the current FBI even worked there when that program existed.

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