Indeed, this is one of the problems with the recent "FBI are the good guys" narrative--including CNN hiring them and becoming an FBI info network, the way the AP has long been. Truman said he didn't want his own 'Gestapo or Secret Police', but nevertheless the FBI persists. https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/1285571162513317889

Gonna float a concept for ya: instinctive distrust of secretive federal paramilitary forces. Radical, I know, but let's just try it and see where it goes.

"Hey, can you help us make some signs? We're protesting unaccountable federal secret police."

"Oh absolutely! Just let me finish setting up this GoFundMe for the FBI agents who got fired for abuse of trust."