The FBI and investigative reporters
Christian Science Monitor
by Daniel Schorr
05/06/06
I haven't had any problems with the FBI lately that I know of, and I was hoping it would stay that way. In 1971, President Nixon had J. Edgar Hoover launch an investigation of me that ended up as an item in the Bill of Impeachment under 'Presidential Abuse of Power.' We in the press hoped that the FBI would learn from that experience and refrain from doing political chores. But now it seems that the FBI is back investigating what it has no business investigating. It has told the family of Jack Anderson, the justly celebrated investigative columnist who died last December, that it wants access to Anderson's 60 years worth of files. Why? The FBI says it wants to remove any secret papers...
https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0505/p09s02-cods.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Daniel Schorr
05/06/06
I haven't had any problems with the FBI lately that I know of, and I was hoping it would stay that way. In 1971, President Nixon had J. Edgar Hoover launch an investigation of me that ended up as an item in the Bill of Impeachment under 'Presidential Abuse of Power.' We in the press hoped that the FBI would learn from that experience and refrain from doing political chores. But now it seems that the FBI is back investigating what it has no business investigating. It has told the family of Jack Anderson, the justly celebrated investigative columnist who died last December, that it wants access to Anderson's 60 years worth of files. Why? The FBI says it wants to remove any secret papers...
https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0505/p09s02-cods.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 8. Mai, 16:15
