[WayneS]

They called themselves “The Citizen’s Committee to Investigate the FBI”. Their goal was to investigate the actions of the FBI.

They broke in to an FBI office looking for documents related to FBI spying on US citizens.

I repeat: They were specifically looking for what they found.

The fact that they found what they were looking for is not evidence that they were on a “fishing expedition and got lucky”.

If the FBI or NSA had done something similar, it would be described as a successful counter-intelligence operation.

[hecticskeptic]

They called themselves “The Citizen’s Committee to Investigate the FBI”. When did they do this? Was this before or after the break-in? From the article, it appears that it was likely after the break-in when they knew that they actually had something they wanted to send to various news sources and so they created a suitable name. What evidence is that there to the contrary?

Their goal was to investigate the actions of the FBI. It is true that this is what they now state that their goal was all along. There is no evidence in this article to confirm that this was the goal of the group from the outset of their initial formation.

They broke in to an FBI office looking for documents related to FBI spying on US citizens.Unless other documents support this contention, it has to be regarded as an assumption. There is a wide variety of other reasons that they might have had for breaking in to the FBI office.

They were specifically looking for what they found.Maybe… or they were on a fishing expedition and would take anything they found.

The fact that they found what they were looking for is not evidence that they were on a “fishing expedition and got lucky”.It’s also not evidence that they weren’t on a fishing trip and got lucky.