What Is Reindeer Games?

Part of the Hunter Storm Independent Intelligence Research & Analysis Collection

Reindeer Games is not a separate evidence repository. It is a subject-area collection within the larger Hunter Storm Research (HSR), and documented within the Hunter Storm Evidence Repository (HSER), using the existing records-management architecture, and preserving the relationships among source materials, exhibits, publications, and analytical work.

Foundational Platform Records

The initial entries in this collection include records involving Bing and Google. These are existing materials, not newly created claims. They remain part of the historical record and provide the starting point for the collection’s platform-related documentation.

Organizations and Documented Interactions

This collection can include organizations across industries and time periods. A case record is not a verdict. It is an organized account of available documentation and subsequent developments.

Connection to the Federal Whistleblower Record

Reindeer Games exists within the broader Hunter Storm Evidence Repository, which also preserves materials associated with the federal whistleblower documentary record and the development of The Storm Project.

The federal whistleblower materials provide historical, professional, and documentary context for portions of Hunter Storm’s research and investigative work. Reindeer Games may include records that are relevant to that larger context, as well as organizational cases that are entirely independent of the federal whistleblower matter.

Where a documented relationship exists, the relevant records can be cross-referenced. The existence of two records in the same repository does not, by itself, establish a common cause, actor, intent, or purpose.

Each record must be evaluated according to its own source, chronology, provenance, technical context, and evidentiary significance. Connections and hypotheses should be identified as such and should not be presented as established facts without supporting evidence.

Documentation and Evidentiary Methodology

The purpose of this collection is to preserve facts and supporting materials. Analysis may identify questions, relationships, or competing explanations, but those interpretations must remain distinguishable from the underlying evidence.

Evidence Evaluation Sequence

1. Identify the observation

   Establish exactly what was observed, where, and when.

2. Preserve the source

   Retain original records and distinguish them from later annotations, summaries, or derivative copies.

3. Establish context

   Identify the relevant system, organization, configuration, process, and known history.

4. Compare the evidence

   Identify affected and unaffected records, relevant differences, and alternative explanations.

5. Document the response

   Record what the organization said and did, including any explanation or remediation.

6. Update the record

   Append verified developments without silently replacing or rewriting the original historical record.

Organizational Conduct Over Time

Reindeer Games is not a permanent blacklist. Organizations can make mistakes, recognize them, correct them, and improve. Those actions are part of the record and deserve recognition.

Equally, repeated failures, inadequate responses, and decisions that compound an existing problem may become part of the documented history.

A case may therefore evolve. Its record can include an initial incident, subsequent explanations, corrections, verified remediation, recurrence, and long-term outcomes.

Documentation Is Not Retaliation

Reindeer Games does not exist to punish organizations for making mistakes. It exists to preserve an accurate record of events, examine the available evidence, and document what organizations do when problems are brought to their attention.