Hoover, director until his death in 1972, operated a secret FBI within the FBI that he used to destroy people and organizations whose political opinions he opposed.

As a candidate last year, Donald Trump promised retribution against his perceived enemies. As president, he is doing that .

At the Department of Justice, a “ Weaponization Working Group ” has a long list of Trump’s perceived enemies to investigate. And on the evening of Sept. 25, former FBI Director – and one of Trump’s prime targets – James Comey was indicted by a grand jury at the behest of a Trump loyalist , his former personal lawyer who was appointed a prosecutor less than a week before, despite no experience as a prosecutor, and who pushed for the charges against the advice of career prosecutors who said there w

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