MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show January 31, 2017
Supposed to serve for life. And Jay Edgar Hoover appointed himself fbi director for life and one of the ways that he was able to hold on to that job for 37 years, one of the ways to hold on to that power for the length of his life is because politicians were terrified of him and for good reason. He kept files on all sorts of politicians and he was absolutely not above blackmailing politicians in order to keep him in line and keep himself in power. So that eliminated the threat that anybody was going to reach into the fbi from the outside and remove him as director. But he also had to manage th...
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