J. Edgar Hoover Delivered Order to Ignore Democrat After His Critical Comments
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com J. Edgar Hoover wasn’t known for messing around. When U.S. Rep. Jack Brooks criticized the FBI director during a background interview for a potential judicial nominee in 1958, Hoover laid down the law – his version of it. “He is to be ignored,” Hoover wrote of the Texas Democrat in a June…