Hoover just didn’t like being told what to do by that pea-brained moron in the oval office. Or the loud mouthed, name calling senator Joe McCarthy. The point is that Hoover set up the systems by which the next wave of surveillance could grow. Hoover was the initiator, the CIA took it and ran with it in parallel during the cold war, and then everything else we are talking about now. To claim it all started with Clinton is missing something huge. The surveillance state project had broken ground long before the 90s.
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