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protocoltureyesterday at 10:50 PM1 replyview on HN

If their atheist affiliation had a pattern of this exact behaviour, that had been documented even so far as how it had corrupted the FBI.

https://academic.oup.com/california-scholarship-online/book/...

Why yes, 6 day old account, I would say the same in that scenario. Thanks for playing.


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eks391today at 5:13 AM

Without an account with the journal, all I could read was the abstract, but it didn't hint to me that they corrupted the FBI, whatever that means, but have a high representation within the FBI.

Someone recently told me that when he worked for the BLM, there was a lot of LDS folk, which reinforced my observation that they are overrepresented in federal jobs in general (I have no evidence for this, just several anecdotes). I assumed it is because they usually don't smoke marijuana, so they are more likely to be eligible. That abstract gave more compelling possibilities that I didn't think of, that don't seem conspiratorial, like the higher multilingual likelihood at concentrated places like BYU, making it a great spot for recruiting.

Does the article go into more detail on how they "corrupted" the FBI that is not easily explained by them simply being ideal FBI hires?

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