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Cloak and Gavel
FBI Wiretaps, Bugs, Informers, and the Supreme Court
Alexander Charns
Cloth978-0-252-01871-8
$29.00
| Pub Date: | 1992 |
| Pages: | 240 pages |
Cloak and Gavel, the definitive work on the FBI-Supreme Court relationship, is based on thousands of pages of FBI documents that Charns fought for eight years to obtain. One 2,000-page file was released only after he submitted hundreds of Freedom of Information requests and brought lawsuits against the FBI. The book establishes J. Edgar Hoover's strategies to influence the Senate confirmation process, incite the public against the Warren court, lobby for legislation to counteract judicial rulings, and use numerous informants inside the Court to both monitor and influence it.
"We all learned in history class that there are three branches of government: the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary. What Cloak and Gavel reveals is that one branch, the executive, is infringing on the powers of the others, and, worse than that, is actually invading the privacy of the justices of our highest court. Alexander Charns has uncovered a scandal of historic proportions."
-- Geraldo Rivera
Subjects:
Law / Criminal Justice / Political Science / History, Am.: 20th C. / Radical Studies
