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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by raincom on Monday May 29, 2023 @04:05PM (#36117513)
Because three letter agencies have a huge incentive to trawl through politicians' private lives through credit card purchase data, and use that against them if they don't want to toe the line of these agencies, whose ex-employees are guests on the main stream media. Just leak enough to derail any politician.
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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by jameshart on Monday May 29, 2023 @04:17PM (#36117622)
There's presumably a lot of evidence of this you can point to...?
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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by politician on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:01PM (#36118075)
Read about J. Edgar Hoover.
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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by jameshart on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:13PM (#36118162)
Is he back?!
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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by mixmastamyk on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:33PM (#36118359)
Obtuse reverse skepticism is not a good look.
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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by jameshart on Monday May 29, 2023 @06:11PM (#36118723)
Pointing to a guy who’s been dead 50 years seems like weak evidence for the claim that government agencies are widely incentivized to undermine political candidates by… selectively leaking their grocery shopping habits?
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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by mixmastamyk on Monday May 29, 2023 @09:01PM (#36120017)
They’ll look for anything they can find, when they need to. There are whole organizations devoted to digging up dirt, and others devoted to countering/deflecting it.

Risk minimization sounds prudent if you’re a target.

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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by politician on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @12:36AM (#36121183)
If the very first director of the FBI immediately abused his position to blackmail everyone around, what do you think has been going on in the intervening 75 years?
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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by politician on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @11:49AM (#36126253)
The front page of HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123670
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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by dragonwriter on Monday May 29, 2023 @06:21PM (#36118783)
The constraints and incentives for agencies like the FBI have changed a lot since Hoover (in no small part due to the abuses under Hoover.)

“Read about J. Edgar Hoover” is a handwave, rather than an argument, and its made worse when it supposed to support a position on the current state of affairs.

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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by politician on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @12:33AM (#36121165)
The OP asked for examples, not arguments.
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