Christopher Hayes: The Secret Government
Important piece in The Nation by Hayes on why we need a rerun of the 1975 Church Committee. Hayes recounts this little morsel…
[The FBI] attempted to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. into committing suicide, shipping him tapes of him midcoitus with a mistress and a note that said, “There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation.”
Hadn’t heard that one before .. charming – mab .. read more
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