The video outlines documented FBI controversies from 1956 to 2011, highlighting significant cases and oversight concerns. It details COINTELPRO, the FBI surveillance program active from 1956 to 1971 ...

Betty Medsger is an investigative reporter, author, photographer, producer, media critic and educator. She is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at San Francisco State University. Hoover, director until ...

At the Department of Justice, a "Weaponization Working Group" has a long list of Trump's perceived enemies to investigate. And on the evening of Sept. 25, 2025, former FBI Director – and one of ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge said Wednesday he’s in no rush to grant the Trump administration’s request to unseal records related to the FBI’s surveillance of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. “This ...

Charles Manson was the evil behind the brutal murders of Sharon Tate and at least eight others — but a new documentary speculates that Manson and his "family" of followers may have been influenced by ...

For decades, law enforcement agencies have used surveillance as a tool to monitor and control Black communities in the United States. From the FBI’s COINTELPRO program in the 1950s and 60s, which ...

This conversation features Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and scholar-activist Ward Churchill as they discuss the impact of COINTELPRO, the FBI’s covert counterintelligence program, at a Congressional ...

Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for director of the FBI, on Capitol Hill this month. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the FBI, has a ...

Former Black Panthers fear the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after COINTELPRO. In at least one case, they were right. Malik Rahim. On a warm afternoon in 1970, Cleo Silvers, then a young ...