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Re:Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set O... by Natsu on Thursday October 08, 2020 @12:48PM (#24720973)
Why would you assume that everyone with an FBI document is an FBI agent? Especially given that any random person could get docs from the FBI Vault, FOIA, etc.?
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Re:Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set O... by hunter2_ on Thursday October 08, 2020 @11:37PM (#24726533)
Not "everyone with an FBI document" but "everyone creating an FBI document" because forgery means creating, not possessing.

I think it's fair to say that someone creating a document with FBI letterhead/signatures/etc. is pretending to be an FBI agent.

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Re:Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set O... by Natsu on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:29AM (#24730227)
Do you really expect them to go around claiming to have forged the document or putting their own name on it?

And if they don't, nobody knows this, so nobody has cause to think that they are an agent. They can't really impersonate an FBI agent to themselves because they know that's not true.

Thus, if nobody thinks they're an FBI agent, how can they have impersonated one?

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Re:Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set O... by andrewprock on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:36PM (#24725839)
Maybe it's presumptuous of me to think it is the FBI that is hiring, vetting, and managing the people who produce it's documents?
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Re:Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set O... by Natsu on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:25AM (#24730199)
Given the number of contractors and some of the abuse caused by them, I would say that yes, it is presumptuous.
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Re:Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set O... by andrewprock on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @12:40PM (#24767227)
If the FBI isn't vetting, hiring, and managing their contractors, then who is?
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