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Re:FBI agent pleads guilty to wiping hard-drive containing e... by colordrops on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:18PM (#32522935)
The FBI has always had a bad rap, and they are a somewhat fascistic org themselves. And I'm a full-blooded born in the USA American saying this. The FBI doesn't need any help from foreign nations to be portrayed negatively. Just look up COINTELPRO for one of many egregious examples. It's not just bad individuals, but multi-year supremacist programs.

More recently, they tried to force Apple to put a backdoor in their phones.

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Re:FBI agent pleads guilty to wiping hard-drive containing e... by anonporridge on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:43PM (#32523287)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FBI_controversies

It's honestly kind of wild watching the political left do a total about face and embrace and celebrate the FBI while the law and order political right turns against them.

I'm getting almost as much whiplash as when the crunchy, anti-vax political left (remember the 2019 Portland measles outbreak?) turned rabidly and militantly pro-vax while the generally neutral conservative right turned extremely anti-vax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Pacific_Northwest_measles...

But probably not as much whiplash as Obama got after he campaigned in 2008 saying that he believed marriage was between a man and a woman. https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/08/obama-says-...

Interesting times.

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