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Report: Hoover had plan for mass arrests (1950, up to 12,000 suspected of being disloyal)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/22/07 | AP

Posted on 12/22/2007 12:35:03 PM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: NormsRevenge

They should have done it.


21 posted on 12/22/2007 1:36:08 PM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: donna; elpadre
No, he wasn't a drag queen but he sure spent a lot of time with Clyde Tolson for a straight guy. I never did see a picture of any potential Mrs. Hoovers either.

Not that that makes him a bad person...

22 posted on 12/22/2007 1:44:08 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: NormsRevenge
I read Truman's memoir and I'm not sure but I think that Truman mentioned that he tired to "Dress Hoover Down"

but Too Late!"

23 posted on 12/22/2007 2:13:05 PM PST by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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To: NormsRevenge
"...Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal..."

Makes sense. He was opposed to the interning of Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor—unlike FDR and Earl Warren.

24 posted on 12/22/2007 2:25:49 PM PST by Does so (...against all enemies, DOMESTIC and foreign...)
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To: NormsRevenge

Where can I get a copy of the list?


25 posted on 12/22/2007 2:30:39 PM PST by Paperpusher
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To: NormsRevenge

Having been drafted myself shortly after the Korean War began, along with about every male acquaintance who had not already enlisted, I have found it odd that, as far as I know, there was no antiwar activity at all during the entire military operations phase of the war. What a contrast to the tens of thousands of ill-groomed loudmouth protesters who came along half a generation later.


26 posted on 12/22/2007 2:40:24 PM PST by 19th LA Inf
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To: bandleader

I’ve always found it amusing that the worst thing the Left can do to a conservative is accuse him/her of being something that is a large part of the left’s base.


27 posted on 12/22/2007 2:53:52 PM PST by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: muir_redwoods

there a few people who dedicate their lives to the job. He was one.

He had a better handle on the communist menace than anyone alive.

If any hanky-pank was going on the agents would have known and they will tell you ‘taint so.


28 posted on 12/22/2007 2:58:25 PM PST by elpadre
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To: Kent1957

no list but here is the pdf , 789 pages

Documents: The Intelligence Community, 1950–1955 (state.gov) (pdf)
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/96783.pdf

and this

Text: Hoover’s Letter to Truman’s Special Consultant (December 22, 2007)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/washington/23habeas-text.html?ref=washington


29 posted on 12/22/2007 3:03:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: PLMerite
I’ve always found it amusing that the worst thing the Left can do to a conservative is accuse him/her of being something that is a large part of the left’s base.

That may work in the other direction too. Imagine the scandal if a prominent leftist were accused of holding an honest private sector job or passing over a government handout they qualified for.

(Try as I may, I can't imagine either of those actually happening.)

30 posted on 12/22/2007 3:16:34 PM PST by CGTRWK
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To: CGTRWK
Imagine the scandal if a prominent leftist were accused of holding an honest private sector job or passing over a government handout they qualified for.

Imagine the scandal if a prominent leftist was caught reading...the Bible. Gasp!!!

31 posted on 12/22/2007 3:26:41 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: donna
...the Hoover Drag Queen Myth has become cant through repetition in certain intellectual circles where Hoover, and other law enforcement types, are reviled along with the military.

This myth is a Big Lie which, sadly, has come to be widely believed--as is the tale of Richard Nixon's claim to have a "secret plan" to end the Vietnam War, which he never made, or the "Christmas Bombing" of Hanoi, which did not take place on Christmas.

32 posted on 12/22/2007 3:37:39 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: NormsRevenge

we need somebody with Hoover’s guts today. There are way more than 12,000 disloyal traitors out there. Starting with the RATS in congress and the MSM.


33 posted on 12/22/2007 3:42:32 PM PST by balch3
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To: squireofgothos

“He should have pulled the trigger...”

Absolutely, and the HUAC(House Un-American Affairs Committee)of the House of Representatives should be brought back into business. If we could get a pro-American majority, maybe we could get rid of some these traitors/communists that we have in and out of government.


34 posted on 12/22/2007 3:51:31 PM PST by izzatzo
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To: NormsRevenge

If that plan was carried out today there wouldn’t be enough dhims left in Congress to make a quorum. There’d be a few RINO’s missing too.

What a delightful Crhistmas present to the USA THAT would be!


35 posted on 12/22/2007 4:31:09 PM PST by 43north (I hope we are around long enough to become a layer in the rocks of the future.)
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36 posted on 12/22/2007 7:30:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Tuesday, December 18, 2007___________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Bon mots
Gay men can be dangerous.

Hoover was best at making himself look good - women's clothes and all...

37 posted on 12/22/2007 7:34:36 PM PST by GOPJ (Drug dealers are NOT "unlicensed pharmacists" and illegals are NOT "undocumented workers". Bailey)
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To: elpadre
"If any hanky-pank was going on the agents would have known and they will tell you ‘taint so."

And have their careers and lives ruined. Sure

38 posted on 12/22/2007 8:12:27 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: muir_redwoods

“And have their careers and lives ruined. Sure”

they are all retired now and will concur with all I have said, except for a very few misfits that probably were bounced out for cause.


39 posted on 12/22/2007 8:18:55 PM PST by elpadre
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To: elpadre

The Mob knew he was gay and they blackmailed him with the fact. That’s why he never went after them and even denied their existence. When the otherwise worthless Bobby Kennedy went after them through the Teamsters, Hoover had a fit.


40 posted on 12/22/2007 8:27:02 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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