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By Tony Capaccio, Published: August 27
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech inspired the world. It also galvanized the FBI into undertaking one of its biggest surveillance operations in history.
Initially approved in October 1963 by then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the FBI’s wiretap and clandestine microphone campaign against King lasted until his assassination in April 1968. It was initially justified to probe King’s suspected, unproven links to the Communist Party, morphing into a crusade to “neutralize” and discredit the civil rights leader.
You would be surprised Aloysius how many people who were alive back then and who were born later are shocked about domestic spying.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Not exactly breaking news tho', is it??
It was revealed in 1972!