Opinion | Bill Rivers: 'That such transgressions ever happened should alarm everyone concerned with civil liberties and national security' - NBCNewsTHINK
— which oversees FBI requests for wiretapping and other surveillance — to determine if they are adequate.
Sadly, the country has been here before. In an episode with eerie parallels to today, almost exactly a century ago the FBI’s precursor organization abused its power by conducting sweeping raids , based partly on fears of malign Russian influence in a U.S. election year.That dramatic overreach created deep distrust of government, impacted the then-ongoing presidential race and sparked a civil liberties movement that lasts to this day.
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