cia.gov does not appear to be behind akamai or similar. Usually (always?), when a site is using akamai, a reverse DNS lookup for the site's IP yields some akam

cia.gov does not appear to be behind akamai or similar. Usually (always?), when a site is using akamai, a reverse DNS lookup for the site's IP yields some akamai domain name, rather than the original one. (This is the case for whitehouse.gov, for example.) This is /not/ the case for the CIA - they seem to do their own hosting. (root.ucia.gov and relay1.ucia.gov come up) So, it's plausible that the site is in fact run by a very small collection of servers, and that they were sitting ducks for the next red-bull-drinking teen wanting to "hack the CIA".