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Ep. 70: Bobby Kennedy and His Enemies (Part 2)

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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The Expansion of Government Surveillance Under Bobby Kennedy

The FBI conducted 842 wiretaps, 374 bugs when RFK was the attorney general. The initial justification for this snooping came under FDR and concerns about Nazi spies and saboteurs. There's also no way that Bobby didn't know about it. Of course he knew about it. He was reading the intelligence reports.

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