“If J. Edgar Hoover had something like Total Information Awareness, would his agents have used it, as they did all the other… — Christian Parenti Copy Share Image
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
My father was the first black Secret Service agent. He wanted to get into the FBI but J. Edgar Hoover, who was… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Angela Davis's legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“The goal was a U.S. Gestapo. Senator Ervin described the espionage squad inside the White House as a “gestapo mentality.” J. Edgar… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater… — Louis Stokes Copy Share Image
If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“So this is where the CIA began—with J. Edgar Hoover telling the British to go to hell, and the British not appreciating… — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
“As the historian Richard Gid Powers has noted, J. Edgar Hoover found in Progressivism an approach that reflected his own obsession with… — David Grann Copy Share Image
J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
“My anxiety level was rising pretty fast now. Visits with the FBI can do that to you, I guess. I'd had bad… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Nobody has proved that the NSA or GCHQ committed grave and deliberate breaches of the law. In the big scandals of the… — Edward Lucas Copy Share Image
“If through no fault of his own the hero is crushed by a bulldozer in Act II, we are not impressed. Even… — Bernard Knox Copy Share Image
