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The True Mystery in James Comey’s Crime Novel June 02, 2023
A novel should be more than just an artifact of imagination; it should be an act of revelation. That’s no less true of workaday genre books than it is of the most deliberately literary works: What distinguishes a good Michael Crichton or John Grisham...
Birch Watching May 01, 2023
The moment the reader realizes the degree to which Matthew Dallek went native in writing Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right arrives late—on page 286 of a 288-page book. “We need to find space in our periodization of A...
Federal Foes January 04, 2023
Beverly Gage’s new biography of J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man, perceptively situates him within “the rise of the administrative state” that “came of age alongside Hoover,” in the author’s words.1 Indeed, partly because of the fbi’s own self-understanding, a...
How J. Edgar Hoover Went From Hero to Villain November 30, 2022
Before his abuses of power were exposed, he was celebrated as a scourge of Nazis, Communists, and subversives....
J. Edgar Hoover Was as Complex as the Country He Served November 25, 2022
J. Edgar Hoover, who served as director of the F.B.I. for an astonishing 48 years, has long been remembered as the stuff of liberal nightmares: a redbaiter, a wiretapper, a sower of discord through covert manipulations....
British Filmmaker Christopher Morris Explains the FBI May 13, 2022
Now that the chair Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker threw at his hostage-taker is headed to the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, I hope it isn’t too rude to note that numerous all-too-quickly-memory-holed questions rema...
Our Republic is the Price for Prosecutorial Misconduct October 02, 2020
"You’ll wear a wire on anyone we tell you to, you know everybody in this town," said Chicago FBI agent Patrick Murphy to former insurance broker Michael Segal.But when Segal refused to cooperate and wear the wire as directed, he was arrested immediat...
How J. Edgar Hoover Used Libraries to Spy March 09, 2020
Once a revered political figure the public looked to for advice on everything from crime to child rearing, J. Edgar Hoover—the former director of the FBI from its inception in 1935 to his death in 1972—is now known as a bigot who abused his power to ...
Multitasking the Intelligence Community Roundup October 28, 2019
Life of Lies: James Comey's 'A Higher Loyalty' June 15, 2018
An early chapter in James Comey's memoir A Higher Loyalty describes his role as prosecuting attorney in the trial of a senior leader of the Gambino crime family. His witnesses included Sammy the Bull Gravano, who admitted to nineteen murders, and Gas...
Higher Loyalty? James Comey and the Failure of Leadership May 25, 2018
For James Comey, it was a pivotal moment. The rule of law and the very integrity of the government were, he thought, at stake. The president of the United States may have been blatantly violating the law, and Comey was being asked to compromise his p...
