I blame the hortatory subjunctive

Surely our lack of grammatical training and our utter confusion regarding the differences between tense, voice, and mood have led us to this state. How can anyone, the FBI included, be expected to understand and enforce the law when they can't tell an imperative from an indicative? Just ask Lurita Doan.

FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data - washingtonpost.com

An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited bipartisan congressional criticism.

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