The crazier thing is
the FBI doesn't seem to care what its operative did to influence this election. One of Fulton's "handlers," Sandra Klein, told the LA Times this:
"Whatever he did on that part with Joe Miller was not anywhere in our purview that we were interested in."
Can you imagine what the national reaction would have been back in the 1970s if the FBI had caught one of Richard Nixon's dirty tricks gang monkeywrenching an election in this manner, and the FBI had said, "Oh, never mind. It's not anywhere in our purview that were interested in.''
The FBI doesn't seem at all ashamed about standing by and watching Fulton tamper with an election in Alaska. Fulton seems downright proud. And reporters like Murphy don't even seem to care enough to go back and fact-check the story.
I wonder what the reaction would have been if an FBI plant posing as a lefty, but moonlighting undercover as a right-wing operative, had found a way last fall to sink the election campaign of Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., or any other Democrat for that matter?
Or maybe ensuring fair and free election in this country isn't in the FBI's purview. Maybe it was more important to get Cox and the others. They were, after all, posing as enemies of the state.