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

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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The Role of the Mob in Government Surveillance

Bobby Kennedy was the attorney general when his brother John F. Kennedy became president in 1968. He signed off on bugs being used against mobsters without a warrant, which went to the core of the Fourth Amendment. Untold hundreds of mobsters who were surveilled in the late 50s and early 60s; many tens or hundreds of thousands of hours of surveillance. But none of this was talked about in the church commission report in 1975 because it was the mob.

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