In march 8, 1971, a group of activists come including a cab driver, a daycare director, into professors, broke into an fbi office in media, pennsylvania. They stole every document they found an elite the press shocking details about fbi abuse and the then secret cointelpro program. , the firstr letter file i read was about a group of fbi agents who were told to enhance the paranoia and the Antiwar Movement and create an atmosphere that there is an fbi agent behind every mailbox. No one was ever caught for the fbi breakin. The identities of the media burglars made a secret until this week. Today, three of them join us on the show as well as the former Washington Post reporter, Betty Medsger, who first broke the story of the still of fbi documents in 1971. This week she revealed the identities of the burglars in her new book, the burglary the discovery of j. Edgar hoovers secret fbi. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im a
In march 8, 1971, a group of activists come including a cab driver, a daycare director, into professors, broke into an fbi office in media, pennsylvania. They stole every document they found an elite the press shocking details about fbi abuse and the then secret cointelpro program. , the firstr letter file i read was about a group of fbi agents who were told to enhance the paranoia and the Antiwar Movement and create an atmosphere that there is an fbi agent behind every mailbox. No one was ever caught for the fbi breakin. The identities of the media burglars made a secret until this week. Today, three of them join us on the show as well as the former Washington Post reporter, Betty Medsger, who first broke the story of the still of fbi documents in 1971. This week she revealed the identities of the burglars in her new book, the burglary the discovery of j. Edgar hoovers secret fbi. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im a
wrong today, tuesday, august what she says she did right and wrong today, tuesday, august 21st, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to today, 7 a.m. on the west coast this tuesday morning, good morning, everyone, i m savannah guthrie. i m matt lauer. sad news about diana nyad, made it halfway for the swim between cuba and florida. the dangers were mounting you and physical conditions were deteriorating. she had to call it off. hard to see her get out of the water. when you look at her the first images that happened after the swim, you can see what happened, her lips and face so swollen because of the cold salt water, we will get a live report from key west and we will talk live to a member of her team who is with her right now, straight ahead. also a high school valedictorian denied her diploma for a single word she used in her graduation speech. it s a four-letter word but perhaps one that might surprise you. now the school wants a written apolo