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I mean some of the feds participate and/or facilitate unsavory activities, and some look the other way because they are cowards.
I don't disagree. But there is a clear chain of custody that the feds pursued and issued multiple subpoenas in an effort to figure out who made BOTH of the 4chan posts.
Do we know these chains of custody aren't forged? Idk I'm about to sleep, sorry. I have an extremely personality disordered client who threw an entitlement tantrum today on their caregivers and family. It was wild and I am tired 😂
It would take a huge amount of effort to fake, and real life backs up the majority of their contents. Especially in this case, where the 4chan posts were screencapped/ archived, where reporters knew almost as soon as the feds did.
I haven't found any evidence of planted or fake documents so far and I've looked at several thousands of these. It would be truly a substantial undertaking to forge the kind of interlocked chains of custody in these documents. And reality bears out the chains of custody we do see. That would be practically impossible to forge.
Its also clear that there is significant omissions by those chains of custody. If you were going to fake the chains of custody, why would you leave such clear and obvious holes.
Talk about overlooking the obvs! Appreciate you for pointing it out to me. Tired. Must sleep.