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60 Secrets People Accidentally Discovered That They Were Absolutely Not Supposed To Know

The internet asked what secrets people accidentally discovered that they were never supposed to know. What followed was a thread full of wrong drawers, half-open doors, and information that arrived uninvited and never left. From the psychology of nosiness to J. Edgar Hoover's secret files, it turns out that secrets…

Bored Panda · Sep 24

Donald Trump’s spying on leftwing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro

The FBI from the 1950s to the 1970s tried to infiltrate and discredit leftist organizations. Trump seems to be repeating that sordid practice

The Guardian - US · Aug 14

Before the NSA Honored Historian David Kahn, the FBI Investigated Him

Newly declassified files reveal that J. Edgar Hoover wanted to prosecute the NSA’s future scholar in residence for collecting cryptography manuals.

Reason · Jul 10

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Meet the past FBI directors who make Kash Patel’s problems look like child’s play

FBI director Kash Patel has faced backlash from his mass firings at the agency, to use of government planes for private trips

The Independent UK · Mar 15

Warren Buffett is 'going quiet' after he steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO this year. Read his farewell letter to shareholders

Greg Abel will take Warren Buffett's post at year's end.

Fortune · Nov 10, 2025

History is repeating itself at the FBI as agents resist a director’s political agenda

Three converging events in the 1970s – the Watergate scandal, the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from the Vietnam War and revelations that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had abused his power to persecute people and organizations he viewed as political enemies – destroyed what formerly had been near-automatic trust in the…

The Conversation · Oct 3, 2025

Trump’s use of FBI to target ‘enemies’ echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover

As a candidate last year, Donald Trump promised retribution against his perceived enemies. As president, he is doing that.

The Conversation · Sep 23, 2025

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Trump dumps a pile of MLK files. Why not the Epstein files?

Trump releases MLK files amidst backlash over withholding Epstein documents, fuelling selective transparency claims.

Al Jazeera · Jul 22, 2025

MLK Files Unsealed: What Is It And Why Is The Family of Martin Luther King Protesting?

Newly unsealed FBI files related to Martin Luther King Jr.'s death have triggered protests from his family, who fear privacy breaches and the spread of conspiracy theories. Here's what we know.

International Business Times UK · Jul 22, 2025

This land is their land: Trump is selling out the US’s beloved wilderness

During the McCarthy era’s darkest days, public lands came under attack. History now repeats itself – and this may be the last chance to defend what’s ours

The Guardian - US · May 18, 2025

How the FBI could harass Trump critics

The newly confirmed FBI director, Kash Patel, does not need a warrant to launch a preliminary investigation

Salon · Mar 13, 2025

The parallels between Kash Patel and William J. Burns, a scandal-mongering 1920s FBI director — an FBI historian explains

After winning the 2024 election, President Donald Trump said on Nov. 30 that his new FBI director would be Kash Patel, a controversial lawyer and former Trump aide known for backing right-wing conspiracies.

The Conversation · Mar 12, 2025

JFK, RFK and MLK: The conspiracies behind each assassination that continue to enthrall amateur sleuths

As the deadline for the release of the files looms, Rhian Lubin revisits some of the outlandish and more compelling theories out there about the killings of JFK, RFK and MLK

The Independent UK · Mar 8, 2025

We study mass surveillance for social control, and we see Trump laying the groundwork to ‘contain’ people of color and immigrants

President Donald Trump has vowed to target his political enemies, and experts have warned that he could weaponize U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct mass surveillance on his targets.

The Conversation · Feb 21, 2025

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Reason · Feb 19, 2025

No Quid Pro Quo. So?

With a deferred prosecution and a dismissal without prejudice, who needs a quid pro quo?

The Guardian - US · Feb 16, 2025

MLK’s family fear new batch of assassination files will have FBI ‘smears’

Family of Martin Luther King Jr says Trump mandate could revive J Edgar Hoover’s efforts to discredit revered activist

Salon · Feb 16, 2025

Will Kash Patel be the next Hoover?

Trump's FBI pick could be a throwback to America's legendary secret policeman, who ran the FBI for nearly 50 years

The Guardian - US · Jan 26, 2025

Inside the 100-year fight to get a Black revolutionary pardoned

Joe Biden’s pardon of Marcus Garvey capped a decades-long campaign to restore the reputation of one of the most significant Black leaders of the 20th century

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Reason · Dec 31, 2024

How FDR Built the American Security State

Historian Anthony Gregory explains how liberalism can be used to build an apparatus of repression.

The Conversation · Dec 18, 2024

Nixon’s official acts against his enemies list led to a bipartisan impeachment effort

The Nixon administration’s enemies list inspired bipartisan revulsion. Its purpose was, in the immortal words of President Richard Nixon’s White House counsel, to “use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.”

The Conversation · Dec 13, 2024

FBI director guides the agency in confronting complex international threats, investigating federal crimes and running 55 field offices

Mention the FBI, and many older Americans will likely think of a time when the agency was run by J. Edgar Hoover, who spent much of his nearly half-century tenure at the agency harassing political dissidents and abusing his power. But as former FBI counterterrorism expert Javed Ali explains, the…

Salon · Dec 13, 2024

Christopher Wray's cowardly exit

There is no doubt that Wray understands the threat that Trump and his henchmen pose to the country and the world

The Conversation · Dec 11, 2024

Trump wants to shake up the FBI – here’s why he nominated Kash Patel to do it

Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s nominee to direct the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), once declared that his first act in power would be to “shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state”.

The Conversation · Dec 2, 2024

US attorney general’s professionalism can protect Americans’ privacy, former federal judge explains

As President-elect Donald Trump announces his prospective Cabinet nominations, The Conversation U.S. Politics Editor Jeff Inglis spoke with John E. Jones III about how the U.S. attorney general – the head law enforcement officer of the executive branch of government – deals with federal judges, who are part of the…

The Guardian - US · Nov 27, 2024

‘Most of these guys had never fired a weapon’: inside the FBI’s early hunt for gangsters

The new book Gangster Hunters recalls J Edgar Hoover and his so-called ‘G-Men’ who took down some of the biggest criminals of the time

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