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Likewise, those who criticize the Kennedy brothers' approval of an FBI wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr. are, in Schlesinger's book, "outsiders." Those on the inside understood the exigencies of the time and understood why the tap was necessary. Those on the outside really could not grasp the whole situation...
...whether to override his veto of the military authorization bill. His civil service reform legislation also faces House floor action. By most counts, Carter should win both tests, but he cannot take that for granted. Ironically, he is also supporting a bill that would require court approval of any wiretapping done for national security reasons, but it is under heavy fire from conservatives, who feel that the Executive Branch should be free to wiretap in such cases without asking a judge for permission...
...campaigned for Robert Kennedy and George McGovern, Hundley was as astonished as the rest of the Washington legal community when Mitchell hired him. But the two got along well. When Nixon's current Washington attorney, Herbert J. Miller, was unable to represent Nixon in the so-called Kissinger wiretap case, he passed the assignment along to Hundley. One of Hundley's six children protested: "Representing Mitchell was bad enough, but defending Nixon is embarrassing us at school." The dilemma was resolved after a few months when the Justice Department took over Nixon's defense...
What Others Did As Lasky notes, Franklin Roosevelt did use the FBI to harass prominent people who publicly opposed U.S. involvement in World War II. Jack and Robert Kennedy did wiretap newsmen and Martin Luther King Jr. Lyndon Johnson did employ the FBI for partisan political purposes in gathering intelligence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J. The Kennedys did conduct a dirty campaign against Hubert Humphrey in the West Virginia primary...
Torello revels in the sadistic side of his work. An FBI wiretap once recorded him plotting in Miami to murder a Chicago union boss by taking him out to sea in a powerboat, slitting his throat, chopping up his body and feeding the pieces to the sharks. The FBI intervened. Another FBI wiretap overheard Torello telling how he had hung William Jackson, a 350-lb. loan shark, on a meat hook and tortured him with an electric prod. "He was on that thing three days before he croaked," Torello said excitedly. "He was floppin' around...