Drs Quote by Louis Stokes

“If J. Edgar Hoover had something like Total Information Awareness, would his agents have used it, as they did all the other means available…

— Christian Parenti

With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

“The record is suffused with examples of groups and individuals being placed under government surveillance by virtue of their dissenting views and activism—Martin Luther…

— Glenn Greenwald

“President Lyndon Johnson was forced to select a commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by…

— Mae Brussell

It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

They [FBI] had a lot of clippings, a lot of articles I'd written. And to me the - the funniest one was - I…

— Nat Hentoff

“Hoover’s attention to the case had waxed and waned over the years, but he had become so agitated about the growing criticism he was…

— David Grann

“The president and his subordinates at the Department of Justice have abused their power in conducting unduly aggressive surveillance and other investigation of members…

— Andrew McCarthy

They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights…

— Malcolm X

I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of…

— Clint Eastwood

“I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way…

— Esther Perel

And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I…

— Richard Ben-Veniste