Someone from here:
http://www.justice.gov/
Lovely.
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Crow's Eye: Maintaining a commitment to Pointless Acrimony™ and Hate Filled Invective™! Also available in corvid mischief and traditional sly dog's mistrust.
eh... it's probably my little brother, tracking his big brother's activity.
ReplyDeleteOh dear.. What'd ya do?
ReplyDeleteYou decide whether this would be good or bad news, but I've four or five regulars at justice, one of whom is a buddy who has mentioned he likes what you write. Interesting choice - being monitored as a subversive or read by someone who thinks you're smart.
ReplyDeleteThe one time I mentioned the Maryland senator I call Babs by her real name I got two weeks worth of scrutiny by four people at senate.gov. Weird in a weirdly satisfying way, actually.
We have someone from there look at Riddled too.
ReplyDeletePage views is page views in my book.
You both simply share a passion for justice.
ReplyDeleteI used to get readers from DoJ and other .gov and .mil domains all the time back when I had traffic--even cia.gov on a fair number of occasions. I just took it to be slackers and the idly curious unless they were senate and house addresses, in which case I took it to be staffers obsessively cruising the intertubes looking for the boss's name. If it's somebody inimical the address will probably be something more like imabouttokickyourdoorin.gov.
ReplyDeleteGood to know, folks. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteAnother interesting visitor was the State of Minnesota. I never got them as a hit or referral until I posted about Michele Bachmann.
It's fascinating and a little creepy. That there are people, perhaps, whose job it is to track mentions of their bosses on the intertubewebz. I know the state of NH has an inhouse "clipping service." I wonder if Minnesota has the same.
BDR,
ReplyDeleteI made my first entry in the FBI's files sometime back in the earlyish 1980s, after I was questioned for an affiliation with a Palestinian.
My "affiliation" was that I watched his kids for him, for extra money, when he was a way on trips to the Middle East. He paid very well.
He was an arms dealer. For one of the biggies based in Colorado or Florida, IIRC.
My second interview came after I made some "intemperate" remarks about the first pretzel Bush, when he came to the region with the future Governator, sometime after Gulf War One. I was handing out communist literature and my comrade in arms was the son of a retired Admiral.
We were too stupid to figure out that daddy might have taken his worry and put it into material action.
I'm used to the self-image of loser has been subversive. Don't know what I'm supposed to with appreciation.
There is actually software out there let alerts whenever your name pops up on the internet. I suspect that may have played a factor.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend from H.S. who is high at the FBI...
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These days, I'm just as worried about Google as I am about the Government.
ReplyDeleteDo no evil, my ass!
Note to self:
ReplyDeleteSign out of Google before looking at porn...
If they've got an FBI profile of me, I must look like a drunken Cthulu wearing a backwards baseball cap, a Karl Marx beard, with pants permanently round my ankles.
ReplyDeleteI'd definitely buy that portrait - be handy for keeping burglars away...
I had a Koch pr flack show up once. I told her to repent.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that if 'Agent Mike' were tracking you, he'd use a dummy IP.
ReplyDeleteI stopped tracking my readership long ago. I don't care. I write what I write. Like it or don't. Read it or don't. Troll the comments; I don't care.
I'm not Juan Cole.