"A reason to hang him": how mass surveillance, secret courts, confirmation bias and the FBI can ruin your life

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@wysinwyg

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.

So you think that confirmation bias is a one-and-done sort of phenomenon? Everything looks like a nail when you’re a hammer, and this doesn’t stop being true just because you’ve already hammered one thing down.