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> its real mission The FBI's primary objective in practice seems to have always been "maintaining the existing social and political order" [1], with some swayi
by maxwell 4y ago
> its real mission
The FBI's primary objective in practice seems to have always been "maintaining the existing social and political order" [1], with some swaying justification of national security and preventing violence, corruption, espionage, terrorism, cyber attacks, and other vague, broad, non-specific, topical threats.
1. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94755_III.pdf https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/9475...
> mistrust the FBI has earned in recent years
Do you consider COINTELPRO–BLACK HATE recent?
https://archive.org/details/FBI-COINTELPRO-BLACK/100-HQ-448006-01/page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/FBI-COINTELPRO-BLACK/100-HQ-4480...