j. edgar hoover. it was still j. edgar hoover's bureau, and so there was a new director, wonderful man, but below him, below him, the institution had not changed. so huge come in addition to the writing of rules and so forth, huge cultural change had to take place. >> one of the fundamental change about those guidelines is that they were not required i law. that is, this was a self restraint on the part of the department of justice. so the question of whether the government could infiltrate, for example, organizations by using an informative but more about them was not at that time seen as a violation of the estates constitution, not seen as a violation of any statutory law, and so one of the things edward did with those guidelines is basically said even though we have the legal authority to do this, we're not going to do it. that was a really important part of the way he changed to exercise authority as attorney general. john, did you run up, in the world of post-9/11, did you run up against levi guidelines? whether

j. edgar hoover was in charge of the fbi for almost 50 of those years. after j. edgar hoover was there

j. edgar hoover was in charge of the fbi for almost 50 of those years. after j. edgar hoover was there for half a century and the congress decided in its wisdom that maybe fbi directors should have term limits, so they are term limited to ten years, ten years. ten years, that's still a really long time, right? in our government, nobody has a ten-year term. that's a really long time for anybody to be in office. and even with that incredibly and unusually long term that fbi directors can stay in office now, for the current director of the fbi, congress decided that they were going to stretch it even further than ten years for him. robert muller was appointed to run the fbi by president george w. bush in 2001. bob muller took office exactly one week before 9/11 happened. but he was appointed in 2001, so the end of his ten-year term came up in 2011 and that should have been it for him, but the obama administration and the senate decided that they would keep bob muller on at the fbi for another couple of years anyway. most of the reporting at the time said it was, esse

j. edgar hoover's f.b.i. for at least ten years following they indicted twenty five people that can twenty five basically none of this shows up at this visitor center so it shows us that they continue to office kate they continue to try to sell this cover up that is you know lame and untrue and holds no truth. basically this weekend was the big rollout for the visitor center oliver stone actually did an amazing presentation of the truth as he sees it and he pointed to terry norman as well as the efforts to contain this and i believe he said the legacy of kent state is blood. and so what's happening with the investigation that the u.n. has accepted to hear. oh yes that's our goal is in february we submitted it. we submitted questions to the united nations human rights committee and they accepted our submission it's now posted at the u. and h.r. c. website where along with organizations like amnesty international and the a.c.l.u. and many other human rights groups basically every five years every participated n

j. edgar hoover, had some would describe as a new deal democrat. >> to your point, karen this guy stoodto the powers that be and said, we should not renew the warrantless wiretapping program. a program that must be said the president re-authorized and signed into a five-year extension at the end of last year. there's a little bit of an irony based on the conversation we were having about our current a.g. the thing is this guy, because of that he's going to appeal to the left. because of the republican it's going to make it politically much harder for the republicans to oppose his nomination. it should be a very fun set of hearings. one way or the other? i think you know, ryan, we were mentioning this, the republicans have so many irons in the fire that in terms of optics, politically it with seem incumbent on them to secure safe passage to this nomination. >> this isn't the fight they want to pick at the moment. for that reason, the president is getting a lot of credit for a very clever move. it's kind of the definition of winning a battle, but losing the war. what do you wind up with?

j. edgar hoover in a confidential letter to roosevelt and hopkins but went to hopkins as most things did, that the fbi had been listening in on the third top diplomat of the soviet embassy in washington delivering money and information and advice and orders, essentially, to a known agent of the american communist party out in berkeley which, of course, is where a lot of the analysis and exploration into atomic energy -- >> host: berkeley, california. >> guest: berkeley, california. and what the message was was, essentially, giving this man -- in the man's name was nelson, that was his alias -- money and instructions to infiltrate american defense industry. nuclear effort. >> guest: and the nuclear effort. and who have identified the soviet diplomat as a known agent. in fact, probably the most senior member of the soviet secret service at the time -- explain what that was. >> guest: well, it was the means by the which, the organization by which that they spread out -- >> host: international, right. >> guest: and infiltrated and subverted governments, non-communist governments. >> host: pa

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j. edgar hoover when he retired in december. is the only director to serve out a full 10 year term, plus an additional two. director mueller, we want to thank you for your service. want to thank you for leading the fbi, probably one of its greatest transformations in fbi history. we want to thank you for staying an additional two years, as we moved into a new enduring war, but cybersecurity aspect. and we also want to thank you for being one of the nighthawk people who were always available 24/7. because that's the nature of threats that we face in our country, both here and in the country, and those from around the world. your leadership has transformed the fbi from a domestic law enforcement agency also into a global antiterrorism police force. so while maintaining a vigorous domestic law enforcement agency, there's also been the evolution to do with these predatory threats. we're going to listen to your testimony today about what we need to make sure that the fbi is the premier federal law enforcement agency in the united sta

j. edgar hoover, these are things that, you know, you live with them in your house on the wall, you forget them. you don't see them. it is wallpaper. these are things i hadn't seen in ten years and i was a little emotional about it. >> we have been waiting five years for that. o.j. simpson on a witness stand talking under oath. publicly. maybe not about the things some people want to hear about, but cnn's paul vercammen has been in the courtroom, watching the proceedings. so the discussion is all about his former lawyer, and what he thinks his former lawyer, yale galanter, did and didn't do in his defense. how much of a case has he been making? has he been answering specifically to the fact that he says he was done wrong and needs to be -- at least retried if not sprung altogether? >> well, they are building up to all of that, ashleigh. they're laying the ground work for a couple of different arguments that are all part of these 19 claims that o.j. simpson got in effective representation in that 2008 trial. estaish that o.j. simpson had to been drinking and perhaps his vision would have be

j. edgar hoover used the irs as his own special investigative agency best we know. in the most recent bush administration, they went after the naacp. there are all of these examples of the irs doing this. in this situation, we still don't know the facts t looks like it's, you know, a relatively low-level, minor snafu of some kind whether by design or inadvertent or through income pet he knew. we don't know and i am sure that all of your colleagues will ferret that out sooner or later if congress doesn't. but the important thing is to figure out what it is that enables this to happen? i think that's the bigger and more important. >> people are saying somebody's head ought to role. they always say that. right? there is a policy problem here. right? which is these five -- most of these 501 -- most of the organizations that are filing and want to be classified as a 501 c 4 so they can be tax exempt are really political organizations. aren't they? >> i don't know if most of them are. there is a lot of legit 501 c 4s. thousands and thousands of applications and the irs ha

he will be the longest-serving fbi director since j edgar hoover when he retires in september. he is the only director to serve out a full 10-year term, plus an additional two. thank you for your service. we want to thank you for leading the fbi. thank you for staying an additional two years as we move into a new enduring war, the cybersecurity aspect. we also want to thank you for being one of those nighthawk people who were always available 24/7. that is the nature of threats we face in our country, and around the world. you have transformed the fbi. while maintaining a vigorous domestic law enforcement agency, there has been the evolution to deal with the predatory threats. we will listen to your testimony today about what we need to make sure the fbi is the premier federal law enforcement agency in the united states of america and the world. we know there are many eyes on the fbi right now, particularly those related to the boston marathon bombing. all of us at the fbi mourn what happened there. four marylanders were injured, one a 29-year-old preschool teacher. she lost a

j. edgar hoover. he is the only director to serve out his full term plus an additional two. we want to thank you for your service. >> we know there are many in the f.b.i. now, particularly those related to the boston marathon bombing. i know all of this, all of the f.b.i. mourns what happened there. but every family has a story. those who responded gave a response, and there was a coordinated law enforcement effort. i know there will probably be member questions about that, particularly in terms of the authority that the f.b.i. needs to be able to prevent such things from happening. this was an act of a predator, or was it inaction? three girls kidnapped from ohio. the f.b.i. was involved there. 45 million dollar a.t.m. heist which was exposed. $45 million in an international coordinated effort. and at the same time after everything from utter bank robbers to those who have a predatory intent to our country. we want to look at these issues facing the f.b.i. and we are concerned about the budget. the president's request was $8.4 billion. after sequestratian, it was $7.5 billi