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2 Apr 2024, 7:04 am
Edgar Hoover believed Nixon actually won the presidency but in deciding to follow normal procedures and refer the FBI’s findings to the attorney general—as of Jan. 20, 1961, Robert F. [read post]
15 Jan 2024, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 1:25 pm by William Appleton
Edgar Hoover’s role in American politics in the 20th century, how Hoover managed to maintain his popularity during his time as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and the role he played in the elimination of McCarthyism: And Stewart Baker sat down with Jamil Jaffer, Mark MacCarthy, and Nick Weaver to talk over the use of technology in the lockdown protests across China, industry complaints about the Department of Homeland Security’s proposed… [read post]
21 Nov 2022, 9:30 am
Edgar Hoover and the FBI, who used it to describe various notorious fugitives they were pursuing throughout the 1930s. [read post]
29 Sep 2022, 5:28 am by Gabriel Schoenfeld
Edgar Hoover leveled “threats to employ the Espionage Act against Black newspapers during WWII. [read post]
Edgar Hoover’s FBI was also found to have gathered salacious material on a wide range of public figures, including members of Congress, and to have engaged in abusive and sometimes bizarre efforts to disrupt and discredit groups and individuals it considered radical. [read post]
23 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm by News Desk
Hoover Honorary Life Membership Award Plaque. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 1:38 pm by rainey Reitman
Edgar Hoover or something, but as an adolescent I was in a way much more technical than I am now. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 10:07 am by Quinta Jurecic, Andrew Kent
Edgar Hoover’s blackmail files, Army surveillance of domestic anti-war protestors, the Watergate burglary and White House “plumbers,” political campaign-related crimes committed by two of President Nixon’s attorneys general, corruption of the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Justice for partisan ends, and many more—various actors in and out of government debated how to better ensure that the executive would follow the law and act in the… [read post]
11 Apr 2019, 5:42 am
Edgar Hoover, whose long tenure as director was marred by abuses, to recall the dangers of uncontrolled domestic spying. [read post]
27 Sep 2018, 2:19 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Edgar Hoover, created a national print pool: 7,000 law-enforcement agencies shared their fingerprint files, quickly amounting to 5 million sets. [read post]
20 Aug 2018, 6:01 am by Jack Goldsmith
Edgar Hoover, for example, engaged in political abuse when he served political masters by spying on disfavored Americans (such as suspected communists, political dissidents and antiwar protesters) for political ends. [read post]
6 Jun 2018, 5:49 am by Matthew Weybrecht
Edgar Hoover’s FBI acted largely as an independent, unaccountable investigative body. [read post]
18 May 2018, 8:25 am by Matt Tait
Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte also directed that the tapes not be destroyed in mid-2005. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 1:00 pm by David Priess
Edgar Hoover Building to get a brief ride up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House—where, as the president’s briefer wrapped up his PDB session, the attorney general, FBI director, and homeland security adviser would enter the Oval Office. [read post]
4 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
Edgar Hoover made it his business to investigate the Rev. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Edgar Hoover, and whose mission was to spy on neighbors and coworkers for “loyalty. [read post]
6 Oct 2017, 9:42 am by Garrett Hinck
The Lawfare Editors highlighted the upcoming Hoover Institution book soiree where Benjamin Wittes will interview Timothy Edgar about his new book, Beyond Snowden. [read post]