Rush, a co-founder of the Illinois Black Panther Party, filed a bill mandating disclosure of secret FBI files. He also asked AG Merrick Garland to release unredacted documents.
Rep. Bobby Rush introduces bill forcing FBI to release Fred Hampton files
It requires the FBI to release all counterintelligence files, including those about Hampton and Martin Luther King.
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A co-founder of the Illinois Black Panther Party on the eve of his 30th year serving in Congress has introduced a bill mandating the disclosure of secret FBI files related to the death of
Chairman Fred Hampton.
Bobby Rush also sent a letter to Attorney General
Merrick Garland in which he requested “that you release unclassified and unredacted versions of any files or papers in the possession of the U.S. Department of Justice or the FBI pertaining to this assassination.”
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Congressman Bobby Rush Introduces Legislation to Disclose COINTELPRO Records
The bill would also eradicate J. Edgar Hoover s name from FBI headquarters. Hoover was head of the FBI when its counterintelligence program was involved in Fred Hampton s assassination. Congressman Bobby Rush | Photo by Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis via Getty Images
Congressman Bobby Rush introduced legislation yesterday that would disclose records from the Counterintelligence Program, known as COINTELPRO. The bill would establish both a COINTELPRO Records Collection and a Review Board and eradicate J. Edgar Hoover’s name from FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Hoover, leader of the FBI from 1924-1972, was the principal public official who conceived of and implemented the COINTELPRO operation, and he was famously depicted in the motion picture film