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The FBI infiltrating political groups of all stripes is to be assumed by default at this point. A particularly high profile example would be the plot to kidnap
by fc417fc802 10mo ago
The FBI infiltrating political groups of all stripes is to be assumed by default at this point. A particularly high profile example would be the plot to kidnap a state governor a few years ago.
As to actually acting on what they learn, within this context yeah that would be troubling.
- boppo1 10mo ago>particularly high profile example would be the plot to kidnap a state governor a few years ago. iirc that was something more than infiltration. The FBI found an extremist loser who lived in a basement, egged him on, helped him network & gave him resources. Without them, he probably would have been thinking really hard about it, not much more.
- MSFT_Edging 10mo agoThat's basically the FBI's MO. https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/aby-rayyan-fbi-terror-sting-pizza-man https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/aby-rayyan-fbi-terro...
- bell-cot 10mo agoMunger's Law - Agents know they'll never get recognition or promotions by rounding up hothead wannabes.
- pydry 10mo agoThey've been doing it from day 1. It's how they found about Martin Luther King's affairs and what led them to write him a letter telling him to kill himself.
- paulddraper 10mo agoI’m not sure how that’s in any way the same thing.
- bartread 10mo ago> As to actually acting on what they learn, within this context yeah that would be troubling. Given FBI Director Kash Patel is a Trump appointee, and I might even go so far as to say a Trump stooge, I think we have to assume that that is exactly what will happen.
- 0928374082 10mo ago> The FBI infiltrating political groups of all stripes is to be assumed by default at this point. That (US domestic political groups, anyway) is their job, after all?