We thought somebody needed to confront Hoover and document what many of us knew was happening.
- Bonnie Raines
"We called ourselves the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI," says John Raines. He was a professor of religion at Temple and Bonnie's husband.
The burglars were sure that Hoover — who ruled the bureau with an iron fist — had been carrying out illegal surveillance on Vietnam protesters and civil rights groups.
"And he was an icon — nobody in Washington was going to hold him accountable," John Raines says. "He could get away with doing whatever he wanted to do with his FBI, and it was his FBI, nobody else's."
The breaking and entering was supposed to get evidence of that spying so Congress and the public could no longer ignore it. Not long after the burglary, reporter Betty Medsger received an anonymous package at her desk at the Washington Post: secret documents. She published the story.
The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
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"The country learned for the first time that the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover was almost completely different from what the country thought it was," Medsger says.
I don't know if the end justifies the means.
Besides there is a little difference here than with Snowden.
Here you have average citizens, breaking and entering to steal "evidence".
In todays cloud info world, the breaking and entering would be hacking.
The Snowden case is a little different, it was part of his job to maintain secrecy on the material he came across and the mechanations of his job.
And I have made no judgement on Snowden or what he did.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Lord Jim wrote:I know, I couldn't find baloney... Believe me, I looked...
It's one of those spelling things, LJ
A bologna sandwich
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
When people cannot cope with reality they revert to bullshit. It distracts them from reality and allows them to feel that the real world no longer matters. For a short while.
Run along babies. Grown ups are taking care of business.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
rubato wrote:When people cannot cope with reality they revert to bullshit. It distracts them from reality and allows them to feel that the real world no longer matters. For a short while.
Run along babies. Grown ups are taking care of business.
