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Trump’s targeting of ‘enemies’ like James Comey echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover

  • Written by: Betty Medsger, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, San Francisco State University
imageThe building in Media, Penn. where burglars in 1971 found evidence of decades of FBI abuses against citizens.Betty Medsger

As a candidate last year, Donald Trump promised retribution against his perceived enemies. As president, he is doing that.

At the Department of Justice, a “Weaponization Working Group” has a long list of...

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