"The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI" (Part 1)

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Featuring the author Betty Medsger; with comments by Julian Sanchez, Research fellow, Cato Institute; moderated by Gene Healy, Vice president, Cato Institute.
"What do you think of burglarizing an FBI office?" That was the question a mild-mannered physics professor at Haverford College privately asked a few fellow antiwar activists in late 1970. Soon, as part of an unlikely band calling itself "the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI," he did just that. On March 8, 1971, the group broke into a Bureau branch office outside of Philadelphia, seeking evidence for what they'd long suspected: that Hoover's FBI was engaged in a secret, illegal campaign of surveillance and harassment of American citizens. The documents they found revealed massive abuses of power and helped lead to new legal checks on domestic surveillance.
As a young Washington Post reporter, Betty Medsger was the first to receive and write about the secret files. Now, 43 years later, in The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI, she reveals the never-before-told full story of that history-changing break-in, bringing the activists into the public eye for the first time. It's a riveting story, and one that, in the wake of last summer's Snowden revelations, could hardly be more relevant today.
Video produced by Blair Gwaltney.

[@earleyoung5904]

One of the high points of my life was to study journalism with Betty Medsger and the rest of the great faculty at San Francisco State between 1986 and 1989.

[@josephsmith6777]

He was a mafia puppet they had pictures off him dressing as a women and bn gay

[@burgerkillsyou]

I wouldn’t describe him as a puppet. The blackmail basically became a mutual agreement to leave each other alone. It was more of a disgruntled alliance rather than Hoover simply being a puppet. Hoover used the mafia for dirty work all the time.

[@artifactland69]

VERY plausible.

[@ronniebrown2517]

he kept all kinds of personal information on people but kept it hidden that he was a drag queen.....BE BEST

[@jamesgentry13]

So? If you got nothing to hide who cares

[@maxinefowler1186]

He was Black too, I know his Family in Washington D.C. He was a sad Guy.

[@ronniebrown2517]

@@jamesgentry13 j ed hid the fact that he was a gay black man...why wasn't that public knowledge?

[@ronniebrown2517]

@@maxinefowler1186 i knew about the drag thing but never heard about him being black....

[@joanie84h85]

@@ronniebrown2517 there us a documentary on KZbin where a black woman who is his cousin tell the story.. but I can’t remember the name of the documentary

[@ritamariekelley4077]

CATO, strange place to be discussing this...

[@artifactland69]

what even is CATO institute?

[@SUPER_WOLFMOON]

Proof that the public as formed into government should not entertain fools. Why do we keep having to learn this lesson. Sadly, less obvious fools always have use for the more overt among us.

[@artifactland69]

Hoover is in new Scorcese movie so maybe more theories about him are in that.

[@wanTANdan]

here comes the squeeze 1955 Lynchburg Lemon DIA nada

[@wanTANdan]

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[@artifactland69]

what?