The FBI was run by J. Edgar Hoover for 48 years – from 1924 until 1972 – as his personal fiefdom for spying on powerful people, blackmailing and coercing them. How else did he stay as FBI Director his entire life, until the very day he died?
There's a movie showing some of this, J. Edgar. Directed by Clint Eastwood and with Leonardo DiCaprio in the main role.
In 1972 - 1974, FBI Associate Director Mark Felt was the clandestine "Deep Throat". He provided information to Washington Post in an operation to unseat a president who was reelected in a landslide with 520 electoral votes.
What could make us think that the FBI today is any different? That it ever had any other goals?
The FBI was run by J. Edgar Hoover for 48 years – from 1924 until 1972 – as his personal fiefdom for spying on powerful people, blackmailing and coercing them. How else did he stay as FBI Director his entire life, until the very day he died?
There's a movie showing some of this, J. Edgar. Directed by Clint Eastwood and with Leonardo DiCaprio in the main role.
In 1972 - 1974, FBI Associate Director Mark Felt was the clandestine "Deep Throat". He provided information to Washington Post in an operation to unseat a president who was reelected in a landslide with 520 electoral votes.
What could make us think that the FBI today is any different? That it ever had any other goals?