Grim points out that paying informants is not illegal, and may not even be objectionable. I agree. What is at issue is if they significantly funded the events, and if the violence would even have occurred without them. I don't know, but I am certainly suspicious.
Update: Polimath reports what I should have looked for myself - that the indictment is not for paying sources but for wire fraud and making false statements. Which makes the cartoon less a propos, but I still like it.
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I agree. It's not illegal to pay informants, but it may be illegal to pay agents provocateurs to encourage violence, and it may also be fraud on donors. Not that that's why this enforcement is being pursued: its purpose is to expose politically devastating dirt on the SPLC.
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