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The Domestic Spying of Hoover’s FBI Is an Eerie Prequel to the NSA’s Snooping Today

History Repeats

In the ’70s Americans learned the hard way that intelligence agencies hate to tell the public what they’re doing. Recent revelations about the NSA prove that oversight and accountability are as necessary now as they were four decades ago.

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