I hate, hate, hate, HATE, with a fiery passion, the fact that this is a thing people say when defending depraved intelligence agencies and their disgusting behavior.
The FBI, who assassinated Fred Hampton and tried to make Martin Luther King Jr kill himself, just jailed a black activist without bail for five months as a “Black Identity Extremist” for making controversial Facebook posts. Stop doing mental gymnastics to defend J Edgar Hoover’s brainchild and look at this for what it is.