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...when the FBI made its first arrests in the Brink's heist in Boston, Edgar Hoover's announcement, carried by both national wire services prematurely declared that "intensive investigation by the FBI for the past six years has resulted in the solution of the million dollar Brink's robbery. Of the eleven members of the gang responsible for the robbery, the FBI this morning arrested six." When word leaked to the Chicago Daily News that two of the six cops arrested for burglary in 1960 were ready to talk in exchange for lighter sentences, the paper refused...
GOLDWATER: There's another important thing, Dick. I'm sure you realize that except for the President here, we Republicans haven't had a winning candidate since Hoover. Now I'm sure of why that is: it seems to me that because we have put up "me-too" candidates, the voters who are our real strength, the conservative backbone of the nation, stayed home and didn't vote. These people are a majority of the country. Now last time, unfortunately, a bit of bad weather here and there kept some of them away from the polls. And of course...
...part, Hoover contended that the FBI is an investigative agency, which often cannot act without Justice Department instructions. He later expanded on that theme in an interview with former Associated Press Correspondent Don Whitehead, author of The FBI Story. "I don't enjoy a controversy, and I don't go looking for one," said Hoover. "But I cannot let attacks on the FBI go unchallenged when they are unjustified." He complained that civil rights groups "want us to be bodyguards and to give personal protection, but that is impossible. Our agents cannot be used as instruments for social...
...said Hoover, "is to gather facts when there is an indication that a federal law has been violated. These facts are presented to the Department of Justice and the department decides whether there will be or will not be a prosecution. An FBI agent is not authorized to pass judgment on the guilt or innocence of a person. He can only gather the facts and let the facts speak for themselves. If he were allowed to become an investigator, judge and jury all in one, then we would have no constitutional law enforcement. We would have a police state...
...Hoover said he had no plans for imminent retirement, chuckled at speculation that his fuss with King might force his leavetaking. Said he: "I intend to remain active because I just don't like the rocking-chair life...