RFK Jr.: Make J. Edgar Hoover Great Again
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Some people say that RFK Jr. is an example of talent seeing the next generation and running away screaming. But that’s not entirely accurate. In some ways, he’s his father’s son — the iteration that was a lawyer for Joe McCarthy, that is:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday defended his family’s role in authorizing government surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr., calling it a necessary step amid the political tensions of the Civil Rights era.
Kennedy’s provocative comments came as the independent presidential candidate was on a campaign trip to Atlanta on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, Kennedy said that his father, Robert F. Kennedy — who authorized the wiretapping of King as attorney general — and President John F. Kennedy permitted the eavesdropping because they were “making big bets on King, particularly in organizing the March on Washington.”
“They were betting not only the civil rights movement but their own careers. And they knew that Hoover was out to ruin King,” said Robert Kennedy Jr., referring to J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director at the time.
He argued that the Kennedy administration had a legitimate reason to go along with Hoover’s determination to surveil King. The FBI director saw King as a dangerous radical with Communists in his inner circle.
“There was good reason for them doing that at the time,” Kennedy said, “because J. Edgar Hoover was out to destroy Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement and Hoover said to them that Martin Luther King’s chief was a communist.
“My father gave permission to Hoover to wiretap them so he could prove that his suspicions about King were either right or wrong,” he continued. “I think, politically, they had to do it.”
“They had to order surveillance of MLK in flagrant violation of the Fourth Amendment, because they were actually doing him a favor.” OK!
I assume that the Elon-Greenwald axis of derp has dropped him now that he’s probably a greater threat to take votes from Trump than Biden, but the time in which he was their man was both hilarious and revealing.