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Republicans wrongly (those two words are almost like one word) think Democrats cheer, defend, if people in the FBI did wrong things, if they were against a Republican figure.
Actually, Democrats are in favor of appropriate investigations of such wrongdoing. As much as the IG found wrongs on FISA and Carter Page, we support the IG's uncovering that, and punishing wrongdoing involved. We're the ones who have long raised problems with the FISA system and would support reforms. Democrats can post if they agree or if they defend wrongdoing as Republicans wrongly claim.
As usual, Republicans are projecting.
They're the ones who have violated the rights of their 'enemies', and supported that, pretty much forever. We could go back a century to J. Edgar Hoover's war on 'anarchists', but it especially happened since Nixon, such as Cointelpro. Show me the Republicans who criticized that.
"FBI records show that COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed subversive, including feminist organizations, the Communist Party USA, anti–Vietnam War organizers, activists of the civil rights movement or Black Power movement (e.g. Martin Luther King Jr., the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party), environmentalist and animal rights organizations, the American Indian Movement (AIM), independence movements (such as Puerto Rican independence groups like the Young Lords), and a variety of organizations that were part of the broader New Left."
Actually, Democrats are in favor of appropriate investigations of such wrongdoing. As much as the IG found wrongs on FISA and Carter Page, we support the IG's uncovering that, and punishing wrongdoing involved. We're the ones who have long raised problems with the FISA system and would support reforms. Democrats can post if they agree or if they defend wrongdoing as Republicans wrongly claim.
As usual, Republicans are projecting.
They're the ones who have violated the rights of their 'enemies', and supported that, pretty much forever. We could go back a century to J. Edgar Hoover's war on 'anarchists', but it especially happened since Nixon, such as Cointelpro. Show me the Republicans who criticized that.
"FBI records show that COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed subversive, including feminist organizations, the Communist Party USA, anti–Vietnam War organizers, activists of the civil rights movement or Black Power movement (e.g. Martin Luther King Jr., the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party), environmentalist and animal rights organizations, the American Indian Movement (AIM), independence movements (such as Puerto Rican independence groups like the Young Lords), and a variety of organizations that were part of the broader New Left."