Indeed, in fact the FBI is absolutely the last organization we should trust with any oversight over anything of this sort. They have a history of infiltrating a

Indeed, in fact the FBI is absolutely the last organization we should trust with any oversight over anything of this sort. They have a history of infiltrating as well as explicitly murdering and plotting for the death of leading figures in the American left and in the civil rights movement. They currently spend a huge amount of resources tricking mentally ill Muslims into buying weapons they provide and making some statement about terrorism in order to fabricate thwarted terror attacks. I certainly hope they have changed their tune since COINTELPRO (they claim to have!) and they absolutely do some essential law enforcement work but their headquarters is still named after a disgusting traitor who worked hard primarily to subvert and destroy American democracy. I wouldn't trust similar hypothetical organizations like the Adolf Hitler center for Jewish rights or the Ayn Rand institute for Marxist Theory either. And I certainly wouldn't give any credence to someone at the FBI talking about stifling speech, infiltrating political groups, and propaganda without acknowledging the organization's sordid history doing exactly that to its own people. The piece reads like whining that the US LE apparatus is now, with the advent of the Internet, having trouble exerting total control over acceptable political discourse in the US, and using scary red-baiting to trick us into giving it back to them. If you pause for a moment and look past all the scary faux-military language like "Perception management operation", what he is saying is that the Russians are posting on the Internet and that this reality is so horrifying, so fundamentally threatening to democracy that we need to tear down the regulations that stop the FBI from controlling what is said online. That is far more terrifying than the prospect that I might have to read some posts that are pro-Russia.