Enemies
a History of the FBI
by Tim Weiner, Francisco José Ramos Mena · first published 2011
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Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America's police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau's first and foremost mission. Enemies is the story of how presidents have used the FBI to conduct political warfare, and how the Bureau became the most powerful intelligence service the United States possesses. Here is the hidden history of America's hundred-year war on terror. The FBI has fought against terrorists, sp
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…broken the law throughout its existence, I'm talking about stuff outside of any conceivable constitutional allowance, I highly recommend reading this recent book on its history (http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-History-FBI-Tim-Weiner/dp/1400...)
on “Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement” ↗It actually started with the British whose spooks taught it to the US' Herbert Hoover before WWII. Read "Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner" <http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/30/enemies-fbi-his... for the definitive historical overview of how domestic spying and its abuse got started. George Orwell…
on “Why I Wrote PGP (1999)” ↗Read "Enemies" by Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Wiener. This is not that out of character for the FBI really. http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-History-FBI-Tim-Weiner/dp/0812...
on “Defense Claims Courthouse Was Illegally Bugged” ↗…read the history of the FBI [1], they have been an intelligence agency as long as they've been a law enforcement one (pre-1950s, when it was called the Bureau of Investigation): http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-History-FBI-Tim-Weiner/dp/0812... They pride themselves in the idea hardly no one in the American public is aware of this fact. 9/11 made them focus their intelligence abilities on terrorism but those…
on “FBI operating fleet of surveillance aircraft flying over US cities” ↗Well, it makes sense that she'd say that since she's one of the two that rejected that the program is illegal. I've been reading Tim Weiner's Enemies, a history of the FBI and one thing stuck with me. That was that there was a period of time when the FBI was incredibly useless because of a previous Supreme Court ruling that wiretapping was illegal…
on “Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End” ↗The word to search for is COINTELPRO. Tim Weiner's Enemies: A History of the FBI goes into some detail about it, and its notes probably provide pointers to the relevant documents.
on “What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals” ↗I’m not sure this follows. Intelligence and federal police services routinely “manage” crime to various ends. Go read Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes or Enemies for myriad examples.
on “Nitter.net has disappeared” ↗Tim Weiner's history of the FBI's intelligence operations, Enemies.
on “Snowden reveals GCHQ spy programme with link to Scottish police” ↗