Thursday, January 12, 2017

Robert Parry — Pulling a J. Edgar Hoover on Trump

The decision by the U.S. intelligence community to include in an official report some unverified and salacious accusations against President-elect Donald Trump resembles a tactic out of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s playbook on government-style blackmail: I have some very derogatory information about you that I’d sure hate to see end up in the press....
"Nice presidency you've got going there. It would be a shame if anything happened to it."

Consortium News
Pulling a J. Edgar Hoover on Trump
Robert Parry

1 comment:

Matt Franko said...

Notice the word here: "illegally"

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/819520238446411777