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Yes. I have a feeling he will have a major role to play in American history.
It goes unremarked amidst the other fireworks, but in the interview he even managed to bring out about the communist infiltration of Vietnam-era antiwar groups, and civil rights groups, often through communist front organizations.
The FBI and CIA took on this domestic communist threat, and of course there was push-back from the left.
The A.G. was, as a result of that era, given POWERS TO OVERSEE the activities of U.S. agencies engaged in counter espionage.
Here is the money quote:
"A lot of these groups were in contact with foreign adversaries, they had some contact with front organizations and so forth and there were a lot of rules put in place and those rules are under the attorney general. The attorney general’s responsibility is to make sure that these powers are not used to tread upon first amendment activity."
It is perhaps ironic that the powers the A.G. is about to use were created as a result of the whining of the left about surveillance of their own commie connections.
Though the mills of God grind slowly;
Yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting,
With exactness grinds He all.