{"id":159884,"date":"2024-08-11T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T20:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=159884"},"modified":"2024-08-11T18:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T22:09:25","slug":"walzing-into-audit-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=159884","title":{"rendered":"Walzing Into Audit Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159885 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/audit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"217\" \/>Our main ninja, who is a licensed private investigator, has spent the last two days responding to an audit, complete with compiling research and justification for recent inquiries to a private investigation database.<\/p>\n<p><em>What prompted this audit, you may or may not ask?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Phone number inquiry<\/strong> &#8211; This was to an FBI field office in regard to a veteran charity fraud being looked into, unrelated to stolen valor. The person calling identified as an FBI field agent and left the number, so our ninja looked up the number out of due diligence. It was confirmed to be an FBI field office, so our ninja returned the call.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) The string &#8220;Timothy Walz&#8221;<\/strong> Seemed to have triggered a series of questions as to justification, reminding said ninja of the policy regarding the &#8220;stalking&#8221; and &#8220;harassment&#8221; of celebrities and politicians. We try to be nonpartisan, and the name &#8220;James David Nance&#8221; was also searched, although Vance was born &#8220;Bowman&#8221; and served in the USMC under &#8220;Hamel.&#8221; The audit claimed it was random, but the search for &#8220;Vance&#8221; did not seem to trigger it. They specifically said that the reason for the audit was because of the search on &#8220;Timothy Walz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rationale provided to the P.I. database company was that we often work with news agencies\u2014local and national\u2014on military service claims and obtaining records. We tried to get out in front of all that was happening and interpret the records before the lawyers could figure out a justification for the denial of FOIA results.<\/p>\n<p>Often, they cite privacy and national security.<\/p>\n<p>They may shut down our ninja, but at least he got enough info to make the request, so we got past first base and are making our way to second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our main ninja, who is a licensed private investigator, has spent the last two days responding &hellip; <a title=\"Walzing Into Audit Hell\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=159884\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walzing Into Audit Hell<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":159885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}