[LordKano]

Precisely. He found confirmation of something that other people already knew and told him.

The author apparently didn't consider the possibility that those people on the "conspiracy/paranoia/gun rights" sites may have already done the same research that he did.

If one spends enough time in these circles, one can get a pretty good sense of who should be wearing a tinfoil hat, who just seems to be an interested observer and who just might have intelligence service connections.

Separating the wheat from the chaff is often tiresome but some of the people out there know things.

[jjwiseman]

I feel like I documented what I learned from other people and what I discovered myself. Is there something I portrayed inaccurately?

Really, I'm just glad people decided the story of the scope of the FBI aerial surveillance was important enough that they investigated it, and are telling it now. It doesn't matter so much who did it first.

I did enjoy saying I "scooped" AP because for a long time I was unsure whether I had uncovered something real and maybe instead I'd fallen into unreasonable paranoia, and then they came along a month later and confirmed everything I had discovered. But they went far beyond that and did actual reporting, talking to the FBI and digging up documents. I just had an SDR and Google. They're the professionals and did 10x as much work as I did, and got more impressive results.