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Betty Medsger is an investigative reporter, author, photographer, producer, media critic and educator. She is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at San Francisco State University.
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Trump’s Targeting Of ‘Enemies’ Echoes FBI’s Dark History Under J. Edgar Hoover Screenshot/Retro Report/New York Times/2014

Trump’s Targeting Of ‘Enemies’ Echoes FBI’s Dark History Under J. Edgar Hoover

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Hoover, director until his death in 1972, operated a secret FBI within the FBI that he used to destroy people and organizations whose political opinions he opposed.