The Radice Files — Episode 46 “Remember J. Edgar?”
First a CNN reporter, now The Department of Commerce. sh@&’s about to get real .
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One more thing…
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Opinion…
What if, like J. Edgar Hoover, Trump and his people kept covert files, this time to include everything from social media to email, and phone calls, on everyone they/he, felt needed to be surveilled in America. An enemies list, and a 4 year fishing expedition. That could be the power over the R’s that created this hurricane of insanity from the right. (To be fair, past administrations have used this technique before). A CNN reporter, and now, the Commerce Department, are in the news for being associated with just such activity. It could be the tip of the iceberg. And J. Edgar was not alone…Remember McCarthy and Nixon? I’m just saying. And they didn’t have today’s tech.
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