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In ‘My Fugitive,’ a lawyer’s daughter trains her eye on the FBI’s excesses

St. Louis on the Air

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The Fbi Wasn't Just Spying on People, It Was Actively Meddling and Messing With Their Lives

i followed up with Nina dos Santos after the film festival to find out how her father's client, Howard anic, tied into the failure of investigators to look into the king assassination. She told me that it all came back to the f b i's own illegal activity, the wire taps, harassment and surveillance of american citizens undertaken without congress's approval. Those illegal acts were only revealed years later, after hoover's death. If there was an investigation into the assassination, they would have found coentel pro because there had been a massive campaign against martin luther king himself.

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