The FBI’s attempt to honor the 95th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth on Monday backfired on social media because of the bureau’s historical efforts to undermine the civil rights leader’s work during his lifetime.
When James Comey became the FBI director in 2013, he placed atop his desk a framed copy of the letter that authorized the surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. as a reminder of the bureau’s “shameful.”
When Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent resistance in October 1964, the FBI was furious, .
Just three weeks before the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the FBI declared in a newly released analysis that the civil rights leader was “a whole-hearted” communist.
The long-awaited release of secret John F. Kennedy assassination files has prompted a push for the FBI to release secret or redacted files on killings during the civil rights era.
By E.J. Dionne Washington Post Last week’s speech by FBI Director James Comey at Georgetown University was remarkable on its own terms, but revolutionary in the context of his agency’s history. You wonder if the late J. Edgar Hoover would have accused Comey of subversive intent. “All of us in law enforcement must be honest…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Speaking at a church where Martin Luther King once preached, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that he soon will be unveiling stringent new protocols for reducing profiling by federal law enforcement, Time reports. The new protocols would represent the first change to racial profiling guidelines on the federal level in…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s well-known that notorious FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover loathed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. That has never been made clearer than in an uncensored letter from Hoover to King that was recently found among the former director’s archives, the New York Times wrote. In the letter, Hoover calls…
