An astounding amount of the explosion of federal law enforcement power came from the odd homo J. Edgar Hoover. A cursory look at his entire career has him as the driving force behind an ever expansive federal jurisdiction.
When he started there, they were a minor investigative agency, created by the progressive era and were not even armed. He got the feds involved in the Lindberg kidnapping by simply freelancing and bullying. It wasn’t a federal crime at the time. Same with bank robbery in the 30s. Same with mafia. Same with being a domestic spy catching agency.
All of this belonged to the states or the military before Hoover.
That one lawless foul man did more damage to this nation than we will ever know. Future generations will regard him as an American Beria, or a Heinrich “gestapo” Mueller.
I would rather have J Edgar hold those files than HRC.