Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hosea Williams, a leading figure in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, maintains that the FBI infiltrated the mass gathering of the poor in Washington in 1968 and persuaded young people to throw tear-gas grenades at the police, who retaliated with a barrage of their own. In addition, organizations from the American Nazi Party on the right to the Socialist Workers Party on the left believe that they are still being badgered by the FBI and that their phones have frequently been tapped...
...FBI refuses to comment on these charges, but Saxbe, while ruling out disruptive counterintelligence, was careful last week to make the point that the agency would continue to use legal and proper means to acquire intelligence that could lead to the riling of criminal charges...
...Saxbe could forbid dirty tricks by the FBI, why did not earlier Attorneys General order Hoover to halt COINTELPRO? In his statement, Kelley maintained that the Attorneys General from William P. Rogers in 1958 to Robert Kennedy in 1961 to John Mitchell in 1969 knew about COINTELPRO. In response, Nicholas Katzenbach, who held the office in 1965, said that he had never heard the term COINTELPRO. While he knew of some legal bureau activities involving the Klan, said Katzenbach, he was unaware of any disruptive campaign against groups such as CORE or the S.C.L.C. Ramsey Clark, Lyndon Johnson...
Notion of Tyranny. With COINTELPRO being disowned and defended, Democratic Congressman Don Edwards called into session his Judiciary subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights. Edwards had some special credentials to conduct a hearing into the role of the FBI: he had been an FBI agent. With Kelley listening, Edwards said: "I suggest that the philosophy supporting COINTELPRO is the subversive notion that any public official, the President or a policeman, possesses a kind of inherent power to set aside the Constitution whenever he thinks the public interest or 'national security' warrants it. That notion is the postulate...
...years past, Congress has been unable-or unwilling-to mount the kind of effort necessary to exercise any real power of review over the FBI while it was Hoover's fiefdom. At the end of the day, Edwards declared that the COINTELPRO episode showed the need for "much stricter oversight of the FBI." Edwards feels that Congress is ready to take on the job, one made politically easier because extremist activity has abated hi recent years. Indeed, the General Accounting Office-Congress's monitoring agency-is already planning to review the domestic spying operations of the FBI...