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. Loading the player... 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.”