In answer to his question, is it real?
This particular one, probably not, because anyone who says they are doing a job in replying would be fired pretty quickly from the job. Unless they
are in military "spy" school, well, then they'd be released from the training and go back to their old job.
Was this his old job and was he released from it? Maybe.
Anyway, point is, don't be an idiot, of course this site is monitored by the government.
To think otherwise is foolish.
Case in point: the schizophrenic Gabriel recently. I posted several pages into the thread I thought the mods should stop the thread because the
person was obviously mentally ill and tragedy would ensue if somehow Gabe managed to act on his hallucinations. When hours later it was not shut
down I realized the mods probably left it open so the government could try and find Gabe, to prevent what I was worried about.
You have to realize all sites like ATS are monitored. They are open to anyone, so there is no legal reason for the government not to monitor it.
There is a good reason why they should and I would say do monitor it.
If I were a really good spy agency - I even begin a web site like this - let any idiot post (like me _javascript:icon('

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and let almost anything stay on the site - and just moderate it myself.