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In reply to the discussion: Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit 'Radicalizers' [View all]TheSarcastinator
(854 posts)"It's only six people!" No, it isn't: the FBI has been doing this shit in various forms for decades. J.E. Hoover loved this kind of domestic spying and even tried to use it to get MLK to commit suicide:
http://firedoglake.com/2013/01/21/the-fbi-wrote-a-letter-to-martin-luther-king-telling-him-to-commit-suicide/
"Letters of Note published an interesting piece of correspondence this time last year. It is a letter from the FBI, written in 1964, trying to convince Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide.
In November of 1964, fearful of his connection to the Communist Party through Stanley Levison, the FBI anonymously sent Martin Luther King the following threatening letter, along with a cassette that contained allegedly incriminating audio recordings of King with women in various hotel rooms the fruits of a 9 month surveillance project headed by William C. Sullivan.
Unsurprisingly, King saw the strongly worded letter as an invitation for him to take his own life, as did an official investigation in 1976 which concluded that the letter clearly implied that suicide would be a suitable course of action for Dr. King.
But hey, it was just the most important civil rights leader in modern history, so I'm sure all you apologists can invent plenty of excuses for it now, right?