Every administration has employed domestic spying to one degree or another. The F B I has long utilized its investigative prowess to spy on any private citizens, or organizations perceived as a threat to national security. The Ku Klux Klan, and all the major civil rights organizations of the 60s/70s, incl the NAACP and the Black Panther Party were infiltrated by agents of the federal government. Its a well known fact that Dr King's and Malcom X's phones were tapped. The infiltrators were so invasive as to put doctored messages on both of these guys answering machines.
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