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Athan Theoharis, Chronicler of F.B.I. Abuses, Dies at 84 He found his way through the formerly unobtainable files of J. Edgar Hoover, whom he called “an insubordinate bureaucrat in charge of a lawless organization.” Image Athan Theoharis in his office at Marquette University in 1991. He used Freedom of Information Act requests to uncover secrets about the F.B.I.Credit.Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Athan Theoharis, a pre-eminent historian of the F.B.I. whose indefatigable research into the agency’s formerly unobtainable files produced revelations about decades of civil liberties abuses under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, died on July 3 at his home in Syracuse, N.Y. He was 84. ....
The GOP is still telling Trump s spygate lies. They have nothing on the reality of COINTELPRO. Rep. Devin Nunes really compared Trump to Martin Luther King Jr., who was actually spied on. Liberals: actually spied on in the 1950s and 1960s. Conservatives: lie about being spied on in 2016.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images April 16, 2021, 9:30 AM UTC / Updated April 16, 2021, 3:08 PM UTC Former President Donald Trump loved to lie about the FBI while he was in office. The claim that his 2016 campaign was illegally spied on either “spygate” or “Obamagate” depending on when the particular lie was told maintained a top spot in his ever-changing list of grievances, both real and imagined. ....
The abuses and excesses by the American surveillance and law-enforcement communities in the years leading up to the mid-1970s prompted setting up of committees to reform the intelligence set-up. Let’s take a look and see whether we have an answer to the question once posed by the Roman satirist Juvenal: Qui custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guards?) A few House and Senate committees were formed after reports of surveillance abuse came into light. (Image: danielo/Shutterstock) Let’s begin by acknowledging the complementary role played by the courts. The leading case here is titled United States v. United States District Court, better known as the Keith case. ....
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