J Edgar Hoover

In Defense Of Hookers

Chris Weigant | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

It's impossible to describe the relationship between politicians, lobbyists, corporations, and campaign cash -- and have it come out sounding different than what a prostitute does for a living.

Potentially Dangerous

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.24.2007 | Politics


Jayne Lyn Stahl

One wonders what Hoover's definition of the word "dangerous" was, and how that might be instructive in light of today's political climate.

J Edgar Hoover Planned Mass Jailings, Suspension Of Habeus Corpus

New York Times | Tim Weiner | Posted 12.22.2007 | Politics


A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas c...

Waving Flags for Dissent, the Highest Form of Patriotism

Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics


Coleen Rowley

I can't think of a cause more worth celebrating with token flags then feminist Jane Fonda and Koryne Horbal's lives of patriotic service, caring and dissent.

Rudy Giuliani

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

Could New Yorkers' chilly reception of their former mayor be the result of the fact that he continues to milk shamelessly for his own benefit their beloved city's most horrifying trauma?

Nixon, Hoover Bashed Justices In '71 Phone Call

Washington Post | Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics


President Richard Nixon described the Supreme Court's June 1971 Pentagon Papers decision as "unbelievable" and "stinking," and vowed "to change that c...


 

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