I think the cross-dresser was still running the FBI in 1971. He never had much regard for civil liberties. Including those of his bosses.
You have to realize that Cross Dresser Hoover meme can’t be used in today’s inclusive liberal agenda except to say that it is okay. This is about Nixon as a Republican, implying transferred blame against Republicans, period.
You can’t hit up Obama’s NSA, FBI, DHS directly. It has to be via a circuitous and tortured trek through anything Republican on which to lay blame.