There’s a lot being asserted here, so I’ve been trying to separate what’s alleged from what’s established.

Here’s the actual indictment:
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What DOJ is alleging is narrower than “SPLC funded and organized Charlottesville.”

It’s about:
• paid informants inside extremist groups
• donor disclosure (fraud theory)
• financial structure used to conceal payments

That’s different from saying they created or ran these movements.

At the same time, the method itself isn’t new:
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Placing sources inside groups like the Klan to gather intelligence goes back decades.

And zooming out:

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DOJ itself was created during Reconstruction to enforce civil rights against white supremacist violence.

So the tension I’m trying to understand is:

where exactly is the line between:
• infiltration
• intelligence gathering
• and materially supporting the thing you’re trying to expose?

Because that seems to be the actual legal boundary being tested here.