FBI SURVEILLANCE

HOOVER

J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI from its creation until his death in 1975, had his agency keeping up surveillance through wiretapping and following members of the Lawyers Guild. Just like McCarthy, he was afraid that they Guild was a subversive group out to destroy the government. As the FBI files are being archived, the extent of their surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. and others involved in the Civil Rights movement, is coming to light.

Alot has been made of the wiretapping that President Bush knows about, but it doesn't compare to the wiretapping Hoover and the FBI did from the 50s through to the 70s. And they didn't bother at that time to get any warrants to do the wiretapping.