Word: hooverness
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...most recent Harris Poll, 60% of the population has expressed the opinion that there must have been a conspiracy to murder the civil rights leader. Prompted by the revelation that the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had conducted a vicious vendetta to discredit King, the Justice Department is probing both the FBI's harassment of him and its investigation of his death...
...what of a more serious concern-that the FBI either bungled the whole investigation because of Hoover's hatred for King, or may even have helped plan the murder? As part of its own fresh investigation of the King case, TIME has learned that a Justice Department review of the FBI's work will conclude there is no evidence of any kind that the FBI 1) helped arrange the killing, or 2) failed to do everything it could to run down the sniper and any conspirators. Since the FBI is an arm of the Justice Department, of course...
...imagine that the only thing that could save Hoover's reputation with most of the press would be the discovery that he was a homosexual and a crypto-Communist...
...your story about J. Edgar Hoover, I am identified as an "outraged defender" of Mr. Hoover's. You quote me as having said that Hoover "had only one motive. That was to make the FBI the finest investigative agency in the world." To the best of my knowledge, I never made that statement, and if I did I was clearly wrong...
...Hoover's motives was to build "the finest investigative agency in the world," but certainly many of the things he did had to come from far less admirable instincts. Because this is so obvious, I saw little use in joining the chorus of self-righteous decriers of Hoover's actions before the Church committee. Instead, I have recommended that we never again place that much power in one man's hands, as inevitably the results will be the same or worse...