edgar hoover his his lifetime mistress navl and browning stated she was there when johnson came out he grabbed her hand and said after tomorrow those kennedy boys will never bother me again it's all in the us but i never heard that he does the bio on commission no no warren commission didn't want anybody that told a different story come down to the final of thing on this book or i will cool conspired to kill him well that's the difficult question in fifty years let's just put it this way jack kennedy made a lot of enemies he made enemies of the military industrial complex because he would not invade cuba which they wanted to do and he was going to pull us out of vietnam so that's two wars that kennedy was going to head off that we were going to be part of that ticked them off he was going to take away the oil depletion allowance which is where all these oil guys make their real money not having to pay taxes because kennedy couldn't figure out how a guy like h.l. hunt could make thirty million a year and not pay any taxes so he was going to do it so that got the oil people angry at him

the coverup, that jay edgar hoover always refused to say i don't know. >> jay edgar hoover was a fronthe decided very early on within 24 hours of the assassination that'swald did it had oswald under surveillance for months before the assassinati assassination. >> he went to the office and said leave my wife aileen. he leaves behind a handwritten note. after the assassination they destroyed the note. tear it up and flush it down the toil it. they'll never know. >> can i go back to the autopsy? we know jacqueline kennedy opposed an awe tips so from the beginning which were the navy. you say the whole autopsy from start to finish was a three ring circle. why. >> >> they're unable to perform autopsies with gut reasoned. >> what us the in the fine report that leaves people to question the awe thentity. >> the head wound that killed president kennedy it was wrorng by 4 inches and on a my man head, they threatened it. >> we still don't know why he was shot. >> no. >> the warren commission never revealed it. >>> and a cruel and shocking tonal goes on sail tort. ee'l and i sponsored this ad. ca

the coverup, that jay edgar hoover always refused to say i don't know. >> jay edgar hoover was a fronts. he decided very early on within 24 hours of the assassination that'swald did it had oswald under surveillance for months before the assassinati assassination. >> he went to the office and said leave my wife aileen. he leaves behind a handwritten note. after the assassination they destroyed the note. tear it up and flush it down the toil it. they'll never know. >> can i go back to the autopsy? we know jacqueline kennedy opposed an awe tips so from the beginning which were the navy. you say the whole autopsy from start to finish was a three ring circle. why. >> >> they're unable to perform autopsies with gut reasoned. >> what us the in the fine report that leaves people to question the awe thentity. >> the head wound that killed president kennedy it was wrorng by 4 inches and on a my man head, they threatened it. >> we still don't know why he was shot. >> no. >> the warren commission never revealed it. >>> and a cruel and shocking tonal goes on sail tort. ee'll tell e it's great havin

and what was being done by j edgar hoover. what was being done by hoover would be patently illegal. he was surveilling americans -- martin luther king, among others. there was no legal basis for doing it then and there is no legal basis now. that was a form of corruption of the highest level. you have a law enforcement agency, sworn to protect, that is abusing its capabilities to surveilled for political purposes. here we have the intelligence community undertaking surveillance to protect the community. we can have a debate about the wisdom of particular programs, but weonstitutionality, don't have a situation where the intelligence community is deliberately misusing its authority, violating the law and order to gather information about political opponents or create an enemies list. that is an important distinction. of have been cases intentional misconduct. veryhey have been of a personal nature. you have one intelligence community analyst who may be misusing intelligence community resources to get information about his ex-wife or his girlfriend. you have some very serious abuses l

edgar hoover building named fo for the worst known keeping files when security and privacy is a concernhere is the the swearing in of james comey. >> before we d do the oath of office, let me say this is a very proud day for james comey, which is hiv wife patrice. and it's a prouder day for the men and women of the fbi and for all of us who care about this premiere law enforcement agency, including all of the former fbi directors and former attorney generals many of whom are here today. ever since our year together, which was great fun as we both learned our new jobs. i told jim, who is 6'8", as you can see, to watch his head. jim didn't need any prompting from me. he's a modest guy. he has always been serious about his work, but at core he never takes himself too seriously. after that first year i had high expectations for jim, that they had been exceeded is due in no small part to the open, genero generous, modest kind of person that he is. jim, of course, is a fine lawyer, hard working and smart, but also a natural leader who inspires those around him. this ability to inspire has bee

the irs haseen used as a political apon since jay edgar hoover. been -- look at what they have done this year. targeting the certain conservative groups. and now sharg confidential information. this is only what we're finding out. so they have been -- you ask anybody. does the irs target peopl because of political affiliations? and they will tell you yes. you want to put them in charge of bra obama care? that's a horrible id. >> sasha, do you agree? >> you know,john, if you ask anybody if they think that it's political, then i think that there are a lot of people who was say that it wasn't. maybe no republicans or independents, but i'm sorry, i did not mean to insult you before. but, no, i -- >> if a republican was in charge, the democrats would say, look, this is politics as usual. it's not partisan. >> there's a joke that some hostage takers saidhat they think it's hurtful they are being cmpared to the tea part which i really like. but that aside, the irs, ingram who is in char of it, the information that she provided to the white house did not

edgar hoover and the leading of the cia cabinet member there at the same time going on. and he was trying to break down a secret organization in secrecy going on and he was in the background and the next thing you know, the man was a feature of our history with. >> guest: i only have my personal opinion, but my personal opinion is that there was no conspiracy. i know that is not a popular opinion with some people, but i have looked into it and there is an isn't information reporting i have read other books on the subject than i thought it was pretty persuasive. and so that is just my personal opinion that we may never know the truth, but on the face of it it appears that it is what the majority of people think that there was a lone assassin. >> host: let's go back to your piece in the smithsonian and how did you come across this story? >> guest: i cannot talk about that. i came across it because a source obviously in the intelligence business whispered to me about it and i was able to confirm that such a thing had actually happened and i was able to get all of the detail

edgar hoover written to the warren commission in june of 1964, somewhat,000 tw never, ever got to themission. tell bus that memo, you where you found it. >> it was sitting in the national archives. it was classified for years and years and years after the assassination. put butt it turns out in the middle o warren investigation, hoover wrote a letter saying that the f.b.i. has learned that oswald marched into an embassy, almost certainly a cuban embassy, and announced he was going to kill president kennedy. this document for the warren commission disappears. so the warren commission never knows that oswald was talking openly, weeks before the assassination, about killing the president. if the commission had seen this, it would have raised questions. >> schieffer: had the f.b.i. known about it, the people in dallas at that time, had known what the c.i.a. think about this, they certainly would have alerted the people on the ground. >> that's the thing. there was knowledge, especially about this mysterious trip that oswald takes to mexico city, that was sitting in the f.b.i. files in was

we have to days, theack in those department of justice and the fbi was just coming out of the j edgar hoover, there were lots of problems inside our department of justice and law enforcement in general. to perhapso turn now related, but surely to the claim it. i want to end today show on the national security agency. our guest here in new york, abdeen jabara, whose cofounder of the committee, was involved in a groundbreaking court case in the 1970s that forced the national security agency to it knowledge it had been spying on him since 1967. the disclosure was the first time, i believe, that the nsa admitted it had spied on an american. i mean, this is at a time, abdeen jabara, than most people had no idea what the nsa was. it is not like these last few months. very interesting. i didn't know what the nsa was. i started a lawsuit against the fbi because i thought the fbi had been spying on me and monitoring my activities. >> why? >> and that of my clients. i will tell you why. i have been very active in palestinian support work. one day i read in "newsweek" magazine that 26 arabs in the unit

edgar hoover was convinced she had quote/unquote colored blood.ey had a secret meeting to have her declared colored and stripped of her citizenship. the fbi component of eleanor and race is -- >> the fbi kept a file on it. >> the largest fbi file in american history. >> when did it to become public? >> in the early -- the late 1980s. a lot of that is classified. if i win the lotto, we'll get the court suit and we'll get classified. >> chris, alita black, and doug brinkley are our guests. garry: thank you. -- >> guest: i think she's everything abigail adams was to john adams to american history in her day and age, eleanor roosevelt was for the early 20th century almost as if she was a reincarnation of her. and i'm wondering if hillary clinton is maybe a reincarnation of her too. it's just -- there are these women who have a place in history and abigail adams and eleanor roosevelt strike me as that. >> thank you, chris. >> well, nobody is a reincarnation of anybody else. but the caller is right, abigail adams is a great first lady and her correspond

edgar hoover had many files on people especially from congress. i think that right now, the whole democratic process has been underminded. america is no longer free. when you know, we have files now, electronic files on all congressman, on all senators, on all leaders, how can we trust anybodyon in our government any longer because how do we know that you aren't being coerced into voting certain ways? i have had it. the government is corrupt. and we're looking elsewhere. >> host: ron, we'll get a response from the congressman. >> guest: i like to ask you, what form of government would you prefer? you said you're looking elsewhere? would you prefer another form of government than we have? you're talking about people that run the government system we have right now, are you looking at some other form of government that you would prefer? >> host: ron is gone. >> guest: i hate that. >> host: you're making a point there and explain a little bit more. what is the alternative? >> guest: old adage ouher form f government is the worst out there except for

years ago j edgar hoover had many files on people, especially in congress.he wholeat right now democratic process has been undermined. free when no longer we have files, electronic files, on all congressman, on all senators, on all leaders. how can we trust anybody in our government any longer? how do we know that you aren't being coerced into voting certain ways? i have had it, the government is corrupt. we are looking elsewhere. host: let's get a response from the congressman. guest: i would like to ask you what form of government you would prefer? would you prefer a different form than what we have? are you looking at some other form of government? you were making a point, explain a little bit more, what is the alternative? the old adage that our government is the worst out there -- our constitution is strong and healthy. of claypeople with feet that are trying to do the best they can. i am not aware of any file on me, i am not being coerced in any shape or mannerform, shape,. in thene of us has public record and internet file. you just have to type in th

edgar hoover said as follows, at the outset i wish to emphasize the facts available to the fbi concerning the army of zero -- of prior to the assassination did not indicate in any way he was or would be a threat to president kennedy nor were they such as to suggest that the fbi should inform the secret service of his presence in dallas or his employment at the texas school book depository. hoover was not telling the truth. demille after the assassination hoover ordered the investigation to identify any deficiencies in the handling of the house of case. december 10 he receives a report from assistant director james p.m. this day that there were a number of failures in the house will security case. the report concluded, of salt should have been on the security index. should have been interviewed before the assassination, and the investigation intensified, not held in abeyance after oslo contacted the soviet embassy. 17x -- fbi employees censored or placed on probation for shortcomings with the investigation of oz all prior to the assassination. an action should be taken promptly despite the