It’s not cynical. The FBI does not have a great track record on things like this. We’ve got plenty of recent examples of this happening - people with mental illnesses and/or cognitive disabilities who got hooked up with FBI agents who planned out some action for them and supplied them with fake bombs. So people who would have been all (semi-coherent) talk on their own got set up to look like terrorist masterminds. When you look at the history of the FBI, it gets even worse. I know people involved in leftist causes in the '60s (and later) who said it became really easy to spot the undercover FBI agents - they were the ones constantly pushing everyone else to do something illegal.
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