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Investigative Dossier — Restricted Distribution<br>OSINT · Open-Source / Public Records
Key — Abbreviations & Terms
COI Conflict of Interest
OSINT Open-Source Intelligence — built only from public records
EOP Executive Office of the President (the White House)
SGE Special Government Employee — temporary federal worker
DOGE Department of Government Efficiency
CISA Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency — runs the .gov registry
CT log Certificate Transparency log — public record of every TLS certificate issued
NS Name Server — the server that answers DNS lookups for a domain
NXDOMAIN DNS response meaning the domain isn’t live / doesn’t exist
PIA Privacy Impact Assessment — required before a gov system collects personal data
SORN System of Records Notice — required notice when gov keeps records on people
OGE 278 Office of Government Ethics financial-disclosure form for senior officials
FOIA Freedom of Information Act — lets the public request government records
FedRAMP Security-approval program for cloud services running on .gov
ATO Authorization to Operate — sign-off that a system meets security rules
maskAllInputs:false PostHog setting that lets it record what people type in forms
person_profiles:always PostHog setting that builds persistent cross-session profiles
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