Tim 'Legacy of Ashes' Weiner gives the FBI the treatment. But he has no truck with the Hoover tranny tales:
Weiner doesn't buy the Hoover rumors. Americans know Hoover, he writes, "only as a caricature: a tyrant in a tutu, a cross-dressing crank. None of that is true." He argues that Hoover had a sexless relationship with his constant companion, Clyde Tolson, mostly because no one can prove otherwise.
The assumption here is that J Edgar the crossdresser is the baseline perception. Maybe it is; certainly, once imagined, never forgotten. One for the book list.
Yeah but "During the 1960s, the FBI illegally wiretapped and spied relentlessly on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.and other civil rights leaders, convinced they were under Moscow'sdirection, but ignored the predatory Ku Klux Klan, the most violent U.S. terrorist group of the century."
Not true. My late friend John Drabble published enough about the way that the FBI went after the Klan. shame yr man never read it.
Posted by: chris williams | March 11, 2012 at 02:43 AM