OPINION: U.S. Rep. Bobby L. Rush makes the case for why federal agencies must publicly release all files related to J. Edgar Hoover’s racially-targeted COINTELPRO It was 1966 and the civil rights ...
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 ...
"As a victim of COINTELPRO, I want to know, with honesty, with clarity, and with no redactions, the full extent of the FBI's nefarious operations," the congressman said. "I want to know the breadth ...
Democrats who are leading a push to remove J. Edgar Hoover’s name from the FBI headquarters building are citing a new film that explores the bureau’s former attempts to discredit civil rights ...
On May 4, former Black Panther and long-time Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) introduced the COINTELPRO Full Disclosure Act — legislation designed to make public any remaining records about the FBI’s most ...
Peacock is developing a drama series about the FBI’s notorious COINTELPRO program, Variety has learned exclusively. Set in 1965, the series centers on Amos Harvey, a conservative black cop and veteran ...
With the recent revelations that the FBI paid an informant who inserted himself into Denver racial justice protests in 2020 and encouraged protesters to commit crimes, COINTELPRO is back in the ...
A Democratic lawmaker on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require the government to release its decades-old records from an FBI-run covert surveillance program that monitored the Black Panthers, ...