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As for traffic, I can’t cite numbers, you’ll just have to trust me when I say it. I can’t give you packet breakdown or IP4 vs IP6. To have that discussion requires a secret clearance at least.

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Let’s be serious for a minute here. If you’re claiming to have secret clearance on an Internet forum, you don’t.

You may be surprised how cavalier some people are about their clearance.

Secret is also like... really common to have. 5 million people or whatever.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681554

You have clearance enough to imply that these things are going on but not enough to actually prove anything? Surely the requirements of your clearance would come with some basic terms like "don't use winks and nudges to implicate us in vast conspiracies on public forums," or the far more simple "don't mention this to anyone."

Have you seen the kinds of people that the US government has employed recently?

I suspect many in DOGE were given high levels of security clearance based on their ability to create dank memes on x

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