why is that quex. >> when i joined the fbi in 1988 almost 20 years after j edgar hoover died in every director was speaking to the need to diversify the agency and every year it was getting better. that never approached the rest of america you can see improvement. it was not easy when i was a young agent there was a class-action suit by women agents and latino agents and black agents. so there were discrimination problems that existed inside the agency but you can see there was some progress being made and the lawsuits were forcing even more progress but after 9/11 we sought retrenchment i personally believe that is the shift to the national security forecasts when you are away from law enforcement that you can't prove people are breaking the law instead looking at national security threats it's easy as human nature if people have a different life experience to be more dangerous than the risk's of the agency is overwhelmingly white is easy for normal security protocol as applied to an applicant to look more critically at somebody that doesn't look like the fbi and i go through a numbe

j. edgar hoover. these processes are in place so that you didn't regress back to that pure co- where there was real corruption. it took decades for the american people to believe we will move past this and it may take another generation but that is how you get past it by doing the right thing, telling your story and having oversight. >> we are running out of time but i want to ask one more question. one person asked a good question about kavanagh but i've already asked. as an fbi employee i've always enjoyed your e-mails about your family traditions. how has your family handle both of you have been through the past few years. thanks for allowing us to use your blog on our mother, -- to use your mug on our mugs, #comeyshomies. i was the special assistant and i continued after he was fired and people were asking how can we get him this mug and then the question came out they said he has to authorize the use invite debate to as an interlocutor in my free time getting you to sign something and all that. h

j. edgar hoover and the f.b.i.and the wire taps which we're learning about more and more and various dimensions that we saw of. of wiretaps without warrants which was a part of our history and they're very near near history do you worry about a national security state here where every digital moment in our life becomes a risk i worry about every moment becoming in our lives becoming a risk i also worry about domestic attack actors here who have learned from malicious foreign actors and have adopted those tactics i think the rhetoric this is the all right crowd the all the all right crowds were who are your who are your biggest villains in that story in that story i mean honestly in this cycle i'm really worried about what the trump camp. and in the various independent actors democratic and republican you see the trump campaign is the villain i see them as one of the villains yeah and who else i would worry about all the various independent expenditure groups again we have an f.e.c. that's not functioning we have te

in the late fifties when j edgar hoover became convinced he had to take organized crime seriously hisfirst line of attack was to use bugs or wires surveillance to gather intelligence then it went through 1965 who was not known at the time it was secret but it all came out and the reason chucky knew about it when the government revealed the legal identity the supreme court basically ordered them to say what will you do? they had two confederates to the solicitor general they thought the legal basis they would stop doing these things they presented a plan to the court they pledged they would reveal every case close to legal surveillance so chucky's case was one of those so he got lucky so he learned about in the sixties as the basis for his conviction to be vacated but one of the main things i learned we live in an era of surveillance paranoia and we have every reason to be paranoid because everybody watches all the time. there was dramatic paranoia in the sixties story after story of newfangled recording devices watching us it sounds like what we talk about today and hoffa had a lot of

attracted him to the archdiocese which was then very powerful politically they recommended to j edgar hooverd edgar hoover knew about him anyway and got the job of special counsel of attorney general in washington then hoover recommended him to mccarthy. his competition was kennedy who was on the staff of the senate select committee. :-colon edged him out and later claimed kennedy had a grudge and then became chief counsel to senator mccarthy. >> good morning. he began one of his questions what does it mean for the rule of law and democracy? let me ask about the impeachment what does it mean as a lifelong democrat fundraiser operative, the works for my party but what does it mean for the rule of law in democracy with 200 years of house procedure and most importantly, the two modern impeachment presidents nixon and clinton when the speaker comes out of her close dark corners to announce the impeachment inquiry is official without a resolution of the house with a discussion in suing and a vote i don't buy that for one second i'm not a fan of donald trump but i think the party in the house majo

onto others how you see the world, and i strongly suspected he would think that i was pulling a j, edgar hoover on him, that i was, dangling that i was dangling leverage over him. how to do this and to do this without embarrassing him, without embarrassing me, without creating a war between him and the fbi, was front and center in my mind. that is why i was.a little bit distracted i did it in that the private session and the meeting started to go off the rails very quickly. >> like what? >> i explained to him without using any of the terms you used, to explain to him the nature of this information, why we were telling him, and that provoked from him a long monologue that had nothing to do with what i had asked about, reviewing and then denying other allegations of sexual misconduct by women who had said he had assaulted them. >> 19 of them. >> i don't know if he went through 19, but he started going through one after another. there was a woman on a plane, there was one here, there was one here. i think he said, is there a guy i do i look like a guy who needs to go there? which i thought was a r

j. edgar hoover's fbi anyway, as pretty much public enemy number one. >> anthony: they sold the panthersg black men holding weapons. but internally what the fbi and nixon saw as the real threat from the panthers was the children. >> bobby: the popularity. with the killing of martin luther king my organization spread across the country. it went beyond the black panther party. >> anthony: the panther's aims were by today's standards, shockingly moderate. equality and education, housing, employment, and basic civil rights. but the image of black men with guns was too much for the america of 1966. >> bobby: right after nixon is sworn in, i got the watergate tape. "now j. edgar, now, now, you got to get rid of these black panthers for me. i mean, what have you been doing? how are you doing this now? yeah, i want you to move and get rid of these black panthers." man, has just been sworn in. he's the president of the united states. >> archival newscaster: raids are launched on panthers' strong points around the country. the arrests are many. >> anthony: the fbi did everything they could to erad

j. edgar hoover spying, what the attorney general was trying to imply, and predicated 100% lawful spying not only was lawful, but was necessary for the reasons brendan says. you can't ignore the allegations of russian interference and they shouldn't have. they did it lawfully. it turns out the fbi does things lawfully. the sort of sinister suggestions were always far fetched but that's what trump at least and i think barr tried to insinuate. >> the inspector general, michael horowitz, found the fbi was quote careless and unprofessional in pursuing the wiretap against carter page. they referred to the findings for potential criminal charges about a document that was altered in 2017 by an attorney. so the fbi is not entirely off the hook in this. >> i mean they're not entirely off the hook but there's a world of difference between actually being the deep state actors out to get trump and normal fbi bureaucratic misstep. here you're right, it looks like horowitz will find it was corrected. that's really small. if the republicans try to gen that up in some grandeur argument against a conspir

[laughter] j edgar hoover. and david hume kennerly.uires the three names capture the greatness of the man who is sitting with us tonight. [applause] david: thank you. i am honored to be here. awas david's editor like being that radar operator of pearl harbor. he was an uncontrollable force. and an evend longer-term admirer. this will surprise some of you i was an audit child. [laughter] --odd child magazine., -- covers -- i remember his time magazine covers from long ago. he bumped matthew brady out of the way to get that lincoln shot. at doingnobody better what he does and the remarkable thing is in many ways, he invented the genre of which he is the master which is that of being in the room. david: thank you. now we will sing a hymn for our funeral. you might wonder why my archive is here. jon: tell us why we are here. david: the university of arizona center for creative photography is the perfect place for i think , and by the way i want to thank rebecca kennerly, my wife without whom this would not have happened. [applause] my thre

j. edgar hoover.follow jones' foot steps into the bureau and too would work undercover in the black community. hoover would go on to become the longest tenured fbi director and targeting influential black americans would become a pattern. in the '50s and '60s hoover targeted martin luther king jr. for extensive surveillance. >> we're going to walk nonviolently and peacefully. >> it was actually the career of a lifetime. >> reporter: but that history did not stop john glover. in 1966 he became the second african-american graduate from the fbi's training academy in quantico, virginia. >> i had a class of new agents training class of 32 individuals. i was the only african-american. >> reporter: glover would rise through the ranks. in late 1970s when the city of atlanta was being haunted bay series of child murders, he led the fbi response. >> i think for the black community it was kind of satisfying to see an african-american man up in front, in charge. >> reporter: in 1982, glover would become the burea

j. edgar hoover would have done with this technology. it was mr. hoover who surveilled dr. king. they went so far as encouraging him to take his life. one can only imagine. now, i'm not placing you under the eye of suspicion. but it's my job to make sure this technology is not abused. i take my job seriously and i need to do my job. my concerns are do you alert people to advise them they're being surveilled? >> i wouldn't characterize it as surveillance. the way the alert happens, when you approach the backdrop, they they ask if you would like to use biometric identification. >> if you thought this was a form of surveillance, would you alert the people? >> we don't do surveillance. >> you don't do it -- excuse me. if you thought, would you recommend, if we were of the opinion that this is surveillance, what do you think we should do? should we indicate that person should be noticed that they're being surveilled? >> we provide notice before the image is captured. it's purely with the consent of the traveler. >> what about consent of the person who happens to be with the traveler,

edgar hoover's, j and others. hoover was the only one who encouraged robert kennedy to role ashe rule -- the attorney general, and the next day, he asked his friend to accompany him to the president-elect's home to have breakfast. on the drive there from mclean, virginia to the kennedys' home in washington, he knew he did not want to take the job. he knew, he said, his father was going to be really, really angry. because his father wanted robert to become attorney general. in that morning over breakfast, jack kennedy would have nothing of his brother's opposition. he wanted him to be attorney general. largely because of his own interest to have an insider he could trust completely for device and counsel, but also, i think, to some extent due to pressure from his father. quite kennedy senior was a character. he was 25, he was a bank president. he had a lot on the ball. never very bitter he was fully accepted in boston society because he was irish catholic. there was a great divide in boston. it was his goal in life