If only we could consult some record of past events to determine whether the FBI manufacturing evidence and violating civil rights was a one-off tragedy or part of a larger pattern of illegal behavior.
Oh right. It’s called history and the FBI indeed has a history of this kind of thing. Right back to its founding.
If the FBI violated the civil rights of US citizens and manufacture evidence implicating them once and I’ll chalk it up to good intentions gone wrong. Since they’ve done it hundreds, maybe thousands of times over the course of decades I’d feel like a bit of an idiot if I tried making excuses for them.
