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FBI, King and the tremors of history

Nothing like trying to rewrite history.

Remember way back when, when America was one nation under God and everyone got along so nicely? That was the sentiment of an FBI tweet on Martin Luther King Day, which -- oh, the horror! -- blew up in the agency's face and brought a real fragment of the Old Days back into public consciousness. And maybe, in the process, the agency woke up King's actual dream -- you know, the one it hated and did its best to smother.

This was the FBI's official tweet on MLK Day:

"Today, the FBI honors

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