From the above-linked article: "...to corner the most status-quo-seeking individuals into the temptation to do wrong, and dirty their hands for the sake of keeping the status quo, inviting them to do a “minor” wrong in order to steer back toward “normalcy”..."
Another quote: "To control personnel psychologically, and to destroy the integrity of an institutional mission, you must not only assign people to what they don’t do, and shouldn’t do, but make them seem to do it to themselves..."