...when FBI agents didn’t have any problem with J. Edgar.This cultural force--not unanimous but strong--is an under-reported fact that influences agency action dating all the way back. I'm confident, for example, that the few 2016 pro-Hillary anti-Trump texts that Rs made so much of would be swamped by agents' anti-Hilary nastygrams. https://t.co/Z0EcdjyaZl
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) October 14, 2022
My experience with culture, in an institution as in a people, is that it tends to persist even as the personnel change entirely. It’s a curious thing, but it is, in Sondheim’s words, “as permanent as death, implacable as stone.” And no surprise it hasn’t really changed in the Bureau in the 50 years since Hoover’s death.
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