It sure is. It's been down for hours.

    http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/nsa.gov.html

Funny thing is, outages for GitHub and its ilk hit HN in minutes. Either way, the transparency in the post-mortem is more valuable and telling than the outage. Organizations need to prove themselves with transparency to build and earn trust.

Yet, one of these things is not like the other.