Hoover

In this day of rapid change it is hard to believe that J. Edgar Hoover led the FBI for 48 years and during that time he proved the old adage that power corrupts. He used his power to try and defeat Harry Truman and later to bring down other presidents like Kennedy. Richard Nixon was recorded in 1971 stating that one of the reasons he did not fire Hoover was that he was afraid of reprisals against him from Hoover.[6]President Truman said that Hoover transformed the FBI into his private secret police force: The Internet is awash with examples of Hoover’s misuse of power. Here is one quote: Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive abuses of power began to surface. He was found to have exceeded the jurisdiction of the FBI,[1] and to have used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders,[2]and to collect evidence using illegal methods.[3]