"The FBI’s increasing preference for political action over bona fide investigations is part of its overall decadence—laziness, incompetence, and eagerness to integrate with the ruling class" (h/t @ginthegin) amgreatness.com/2021/01/31/how…
quote: "Penetrating, and otherwise surveilling the target, follows from profiling. Penetration is a legitimate tool of investigation, a bet that undercover agents will find useful truths. But penetration pursuant to profiling becomes a means of manufacturing appearances...
..to validate prejudice. And that naturally leads to using the penetrators to bring forth the behavior that would validate the penetration—in other words, to provocation and to spreading the government’s most convenient lies."
quote: "In the run-up to the 2016 election, the FBI penetrated the Trump campaign by vectoring, among others, Stefan Halper, longtime CIA asset, onto Trump aide Carter Page..
..It tried to maneuver legitimate British students of Russia to give credence to a political narrative that it was concocting along with the Democratic candidate." cc. @RealSLokhova
quote: "Led by an FBI informant, the Proud Boys did not, in fact, storm the Capitol. But the presence there of two of its strays was enough to lend a whiff of reality to the narrative of right-wing conspiracy."
quote: "We cannot know whether the FBI intended that. But in fact, its involvement in leading the Proud Boys helps the rest of the oligarchy and media to incriminate you and justifies the FBI further to profile, penetrate, and provoke you..
..the people you see, know, and care about. Alas, the oligarchy under which we live has decided to treat us as terrorists. That forces us to return the favor."
at least former personnel refrain themselves from quick judgements.... smh. 
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