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Monday, January 20, 2020
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When the Select Committee on Assassinations issued its final report on the murder of Dr. #MartinLutherKingJr, it noted that the Department of #Justice “failed to supervise adequately the Domestic Intelligence Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." The report further stated that: "the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in the #DomesticIntelligence Division’s COINTELPRO campaign against Dr. King, grossly abused and exceeded its #legal authority and failed to consider the possibility that actions threatening bodily harm to Dr. King might be encouraged by the program.” In light of that conclusion, why did the committee not recommend the complete and immediate #declassification of all #FBI records dealing with King, his associates and related #CivilRights organizations and movements, and urge the passage of #legislation to make racialized #MassSurveillance illegal?
To this day more than 17,000 pages of FBI files dealing directly with Dr. King remain classified.
The King files are part of the vast, still classified FBI “Domestic Security” cases, spanning 1939 to 1984.
The “Domestic Security” label was used by the bureau to conceal the true #political or #racial nature of the #surveillance and investigations conducted against targets such as King, labor leaders such as Walter Reuther, or folk singers such as Pete Seeger, among others.
How many classified records are we talking about?
If you stacked the case file boxes end‐to‐end, they would stretch for almost seven miles.
Looking for a ballpark page count? At 1,800 pages per linear foot, with 35,637 linear feet of records, we’re talking about over 64 million pages of still‐#classified FBI records that are anywhere from 40 to 80 years old.
And those are only the records we know exist.
Learn more at the link in our bio
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@CatoInstitute (Instagram) authored a viral Instagram post which received 496 reactions "When the Select Committee on Assassinations issued its final report on the murder of Dr. #MartinLutherKingJr, it noted that the Department of #Justice “failed to supervise adequately the Domestic Intelligence Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." The report further stated that: "the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in the #DomesticIntelligence Division’s COINTELPRO campaign against Dr. King, grossly abused and exceeded its #legal authority and failed to consider the possibility that actions threatening bodily harm to Dr. King might be encouraged by the program.” In light of that conclusion, why did the committee not recommend the complete and immediate #declassification of all #FBI records dealing with King, his associates and related #CivilRights organizations and movements, and urge the passage of #legislation to make racialized #MassSurveillance illegal? To this day more than 17,000 pages of FBI files dealing directly with Dr. King remain classified. The King files are part of the vast, still classified FBI “Domestic Security” cases, spanning 1939 to 1984. The “Domestic Security” label was used by the bureau to conceal the true #political or #racial nature of the #surveillance and investigations conducted against targets such as King, labor leaders such as Walter Reuther, or folk singers such as Pete Seeger, among others. How many classified records are we talking about? If you stacked the case file boxes end‐to‐end, they would stretch for almost seven miles. Looking for a ballpark page count? At 1,800 pages per linear foot, with 35,637 linear feet of records, we’re talking about over 64 million pages of still‐#classified FBI records that are anywhere from 40 to 80 years old. And those are only the records we know exist. Learn more at the link in our bio"