Look, let's be honest. The FBI has a long history of messing up people's lives. This time the lives they're messing with just happen to be Presidential Candidates. Yes, the FBI messes with people big time - writers, actors, moviemakers, activists, organizers, peacemakers. It's all there. It's all documented. People's lives have been destroyed by the FBI.
But now the institution that has based its existence on secrecy and hasn't been accountable in that secrecy is being recognized by some in the media and the public as the truth teller, the organization we should be depending on for truth in a terrible election. I don't buy it. This is a very scary proposition. The history and tradition of dirty tricks, meddling and informants speaks volumes.
A gadfly upsets the status quo by posing different or novel questions, or just being an irritant. Socrates pointed out that dissent, like the gadfly, was easy to swat, but the cost to society of silencing individuals who were irritating could be very high.
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