FBI's Deadly Mistake on Terror Investigations May Fuel Next Civil War? w/ Mike German - Thom Hartmann

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Is the FBI making a fatal mistake in investigations on terror cases? Thom Hartmann discusses the possibility of a new US Civil War being fueled by rhetoric from Donald Trump and what the FBI can do to stop it before it's too late.

Mike German is the author of the shocking new book, "Policing White Supremacy - The Enemy Within." Michael German is a retired American FBI agent, scholar, and writer. He is a fellow in the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty and National Security program. - 01/10/2025.

[Oopsie Daisy]

1. Clickybait-y headline in the form of a question ... and the answer is "NO" (as usual)

[keep_left]

2. LOL...you just stated "Betteridge's Law".

But you probably already knew that.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions#Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

[Oopsie Daisy]

3. "...by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not."

It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

(Thanks for the links, keep_left.)

[Oopsie Daisy]

4. "[Writers] know the story is probably bullshit, and don't actually have the sources and facts to back it up..."

Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no." The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions#Betteridge's_law_of_headlines