Short answer: this dries up any dissent. But if you think THIS is what stops people from organizing politically then you&#x27;re wrong: the intelligence agencies have done a lot worse. They&#x27;ve dabbled with human experimentation in the 50&#x27;s, sabotaged civil rights movements in the 60&#x27;s, propagandized anti-Soviet literature in the 70&#x27;s, and so on. This is another step in the long line of government abuses in the land of the free.