[fc417fc802]

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]

>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]

That's basically the FBI's MO.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/29/politics/aby-rayyan-fbi-terro...

[bell-cot]

Munger's Law - Agents know they'll never get recognition or promotions by rounding up hothead wannabes.

[pydry]

They'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]

I’m not sure how that’s in any way the same thing.

[0928374082]

> 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?

[bartread]

> 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.