Perhaps I’m being unfair; but I suspect that it’s ‘political’ in the sense of “how do you choose which targets to follow up on in a very target rich environment” rather than the sense of “trumped up charges and railroading the innocent”.
There are just so many local police departments, relative to the resources of the FBI, that seeing one crawling with feds suggests some combination of special fed interest and truly exemplary guilt; but it seems rather less likely that the FBI has to resort to just making stuff up because the cops are so stubbornly innocent.
