Rising Hegemon
A little ditty from the NYT about Hoover and the FBI that I think deserves more attention (ignored in the run up to the caucuses and holiday season):
A recently declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.
Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, 12 days after the Korean War began. It envisioned putting suspect Americans in military prisons.
Didn't see any brown shirts among the Ron Paul folks in Iowa and New Hampshire, maybe Hoover took them all and sewed himself a dress?
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