An exposé in Mother Jones magazine chronicles the story of an American named named Naji Mansour who was living in Kenya. After he refused to become an informant, he saw his life, and his family’s life, turned upside down. He was detained, repeatedly interrogated and ultimately forced into exile in Sudan, unable to see his children for years. Mansour began recording his conversations with the FBI. During one call, an agent informs Mansour that he might get "hit by a car."
I would suspect that the FBI is one of those lines of work that draws people who like the prospect of being outside the law. For this reason and others, people in certain lines of work, like politics, business, and law enforcement, give me the willies. We are ultimately a civilization of animals - human animals, but animals nonetheless, and some of us have managed to exert our frontal lobes to the point where we have a sense of integrity, dignity, sensibility, intelligence, and non-impulsivity, and some of us are barely down from the trees, the same way this FBI fuckstick is. Probably has a faulty MAOA gene, for all we know.
What the Hell is going on with our federal institutions? Where is this pressure coming from? What freedom loving American would think that this is OK and that this is what is going to make us safe. I am simply outraged.
Federal institutions are made up of people. Sometimes these people are very stupid. That's what I can tell, anyway, especially with two parents who are current/former feds. People like to paint the government as a monolith when in fact it's a bureaucracy with tons of organizational minutiae that don't exist outside the federal government. Also the FBI and such probably draw the sorts of sociopathic folks who would do that.