[1/2] https://reason.com/2024/05/10/an-american-gangster-at-100-j-edgar-hoovers-authoritarian-legacy
J Edgar Hoover spent his career building and running America's repressive secret police. I love this quote from Justice Brandeis: "The greatest dangers to liberty lie in insidious encroachments by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." But they are generally aided by people motivated simply by unscrupulous ambition - people eager to create and use terrorism scares, …
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