• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    If you want to go down a rabbithole, look up the early days of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.

    Hoover got the job because he was a bureaucrat, not a lawman. He would have his people build giant files by hand on anyone of interest.