THE IRS TARGETING OF CONSERVATIVES (((See COINTELPRO))) the shift from left to right There was a Time when The IRS & FBI Targeted LIBERALS History Shows That Both Republicans & Democrats Have targeted each other for Political Gain ___________________ Examples of surveillance, spanning all presidents from FDR to Nixon, both legal and illegal, contained in the Church Committee report President Roosevelt=Democrat asked the FBI to put in its files the names of citizens sending telegrams to the White House opposing his national defense policy and supporting Col. Charles Lindbergh. .................. President Truman=Democrat received inside information on a former Roosevelt aides efforts to influence his appointments, labor union negotiating plans, and the publishing plans of journalists. ................................ President Eisenhower =Republican. received reports on purely political and social contacts with foreign officials by Bernard Baruch, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. ....................... The Kennedy administration =Democrat had the FBI wiretap a congressional staff member, three executive officials, a lobbyist, and a Washington law firm. US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy received the fruits of an FBI wire tap on Martin Luther King, Jr. and an electronic listening device targeting a congressman, both of which yielded information of a political nature. ............................ President Johnson =Democrat asked the FBI to conduct name checks of his critics and members of the staff of his 1964 opponent, Senator Barry Goldwater. He also requested purely political intelligence on his critics in the Senate, and received extensive intelligence reports on political activity at the 1964 Democratic Convention from FBI electronic surveillance. ......................... President Nixon Republican. authorized a program of wiretaps which produced for the White House purely political or personal information unrelated to national security, including information about a Supreme Court Justice. .en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
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