From: mrjoshmccoy@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, February 7, 1995 at 9:53:42 PM UTC-6, Robert Clark wrote:   
   > In the opening titles of X-Files, they show Mulder & Scully's I.D.    
   > Cards. Across the bottom of the card, it reads "Federal Bureau of    
   > Justice, U.S. Department of Investigations". What gives, shouldn't it be    
   > F.B.**I** and Dept of Justice??   
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   The reason they don't is because it is illegal to make completely fully   
   accurate FBI or any government credentials, including the actual badge.   
   Ironically, in the beginning the used actual metal FBI badges and even though   
   it was clearly fictional    
   characters on a TV show, the show set was actually raided and all real fbi   
   badges were confiscated, and even if they make idential replicas those would   
   have been confiscated too because there would be no way to distinguish real   
   from replica. It's don in    
   many shows, most to subtle alterations like using  11 or 12 stars on the fbi   
   seal instead of the 13 like in the Hannibal series , or Removing parts of the   
   eagle crest on the cia seal, along with using the department of justice which   
   Parks and Rec also    
   did for Andys 'Burt Macklin' FBI character. The replacement badges they have   
   are still very close, but you can only see the differences up close due to the   
   dark bronze paint. Same as if you make replica props, if you make one 100%   
   identical to the real    
   one with a customizable photo and signature, not only are you in danger of a   
   serious crime, but if you sell it and the person is caught showing it off and   
   pretending to be an fbi agent, even if it were a youtube skit, they would be   
   arrested and you would    
   face charges aswell. Fairly sure that's why they do a punch hole "void" on   
   them when the agent retires so even though it is real so it can't be used as   
   the person would see the void punch holes across the top and bottom.   
      
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