After all the bureau’s crimes, Americans need somebody who is willing to tear this organization down to its bare studs.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The FBI Deserves Kash Patel
Tag: COINTELPRO
Georgia Frames Cop-City Protest as Criminal Conspiracy
Rachel McKane and David Pellow see Georgia’s RICO indictment as an attempt to repress social movement activity, using the state’s tools of legal interpretation and enforcement.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: J Edgar Hoover’s Evil Brainchild
All of COINTELPRO should be declassified. Bobby Rush’s legislation — now at high risk of getting lost in Congress — would do that.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The War Against Us
Britain’s Secret Political Police
A who’s who of the U.K. radical left over the past half century was infiltrated by “spycops,” reports Asa Winstanley, who has personal involvement with this story.
MLK & Fred Hampton Versus J Edgar Hoover
James DiEugenio tracks the FBI boss and his renegade violence against any sign of a Black Messiah through two current films.
A New Angle in Abu-Jamal’s Case
The decades-old case of convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal has always centered on whether the legal process was rigged against the black political activist, an argument that has new life, reports Dennis J Bernstein.