[MontanaMatt]

I was in Seattle recently, staying with friends who work for a government agency that tracks terrorists. They follow known terror suspects each day as part of their job duties. (I am purposely remaining vague for obvious reasons)
As a daily lurker on this site, we discussed whether the alphabet soup agencies ever lurked the TM or other web sites to garner additional information. Their response was no, we know much more than you could ever imagine already. I was saddened to hear this, as I believe the TM is doing a great job for those of us who do not have access to the information government agencies know.
Needless to say, there is great concern over the ports and cross-border smuggling in of WMD I was told that if one of their pagers went off, I should leave the City. The good news is that there were no problems during the visit. Since being back home, my friends have been unreachable due to their jobs.
I say, keep up the good work to all on the TM!

[Judith Anne]

Place bump.

[oceanview]

what kind of WMD, did they say anything?

[Quix]

About what I expected.

However, we do have some from Homeland security who are at least occasionally reviewing what we do here. And certainly they can be FREEPMAILED.

And some have been lauded as being particularly helpful by some agencies.

But, yeah, we are not professionals.

HOWEVER, WE PROBABLY HAVE A GREATER DIVERSITY AND GREATER . . . out-of-the-box brainstorming critical mass than perhaps any agency. That has a certain value that COULD BE priceless in some contexts and contingencies.

imho.

Thanks for your kind post.

[Cindy]

Greetings Montana Matt.

Regarding this portion of your post:

"As a daily lurker on this site, we discussed whether the alphabet soup agencies ever lurked the TM or other web sites to garner additional information. Their response was no, we know much more than you could ever imagine already."

That's a typical response HOWEVER did you know Montanta Matt that while that may be a true answer for them; it does not apply to all leos and alphabets and military officials. FYI.

Hope to see you around here a lot more.