Countering conspiracy by infiltration threatens civil liberties as Hoover’s did

Evidence

Government, on this view, should attempt to “debias or disable its purveyors” in this fashion. Their proposal for a government-sponsored conspiracy to combat conspiracy recalls the efforts by J. Edgar Hoover, the founding director of the FBI, who ran a counterintelligence program from 1956 to 1971 that, among other illegal and improper techniques, infiltrated civil rights groups. Infiltrating conspiracist groups is a similar offense against civil liberties—especially when the group is not a terrorist cell or some other violent association. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 343

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Exposed government infiltration would strengthen rather than weaken conspiracism — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 343; Terrorist acts force security responses that themselves encroach on civil liberties — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2114; FBI counterintelligence programs targeted civil rights activism as threats to national security — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 392 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Exposed government infiltration would strengthen rather than weaken conspiracism #corroborates (0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 343
• FBI counterintelligence programs targeted civil rights activism as threats to national security #exemplifies (0.80) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 392
• Secret police provocation manufactured the resistance they claimed to suppress #exemplifies (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 948
• Terrorist acts force security responses that themselves encroach on civil liberties #complicates (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2114