Hanlon’s razor is a thought-terminating cliche in most circumstances. Malice exists very frequently, as does profit-seeking or other motives that are indistinguishable from malice, and it's not at all the same thing as occam's "don't say god did it when there's a perfectly good mortal explanation" razor.

In the DEAs case it was literally confirmed to be operating on malice since at least the Nixon and Reagan years, when it was deliberately wielded as a weapon to disrupt hippies and black communities, specifically.