Dissident and off beat religious groups have faced more than a century of surveillance.
EVER SINCE FBI Director James Comey staggered into the spotlight during last year’s presidential campaign, critics have been comparing him to the most infamous man ever to hold Comey’s job. “I think this is sort of a flashback to the days of J. Edgar Hoover,” the journalist turned academic Sanford Ungar told The New York Times last October. “I don’t mean to smear Comey, and it may be an unfair comparison. But Hoover would weigh in on issues without warning or expectation.”
Comey’s comments about the Hillary Clinton email investigation do highlight how a law enforcement agency can improperly influence public opinion. But there are some pretty big differences between his behavior and that of his predecessor. For one thing, his actions last year were public, a fact that triggered a national debate over their propriety and eventually led the Justice Department’s inspector general to launch an investigation of how his agency handled its probe of Hillary Clinton’s emails. For another, that probe was a legitimate criminal investigation.
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