Epstein Secrets

private, but continues to laud him for the media. Gore Vidal has no such restraint. On a television prog

st HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015096 Whittaker Chambers, against Senator Joseph McCarthy and against J. Edgar Hoover. In that vein, gossips used to rant about Hoover and Clyde Tolson double-dating with Charles “Bebe” Rebozo and myself. Neither Rebozo nor! are “gay.” We have been very close friends since 1950. Wha

irony that while Bobby Kennedy was giving official permission to J. Edgar Hoover to spy on Martin Luther King, | was giving unofficial permission to Hoover to spy on Kennedy. That is to say, Robert Maheu may have been working for Howard Hughes, but he had also continued working for the FBI. So when he re

subsequently consulted with the Israeli government about that case. Later in my career, I was a lawyer in the Bill Clinton impeachment, the Bush v. Gore election case, the efforts to free Nelson Mandela, Natan Sharansky and other political prisoners. I participated in the Senate censure of California

t. One of the great villains of the day to all liberals was J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI. On several occasions, I let my negative views about Hoover be known to Goldberg, but he never said a word. I didn’t understand why. A few years later, I asked Bazelon, who smiled, and said “I probably shouldn

ed Bazelon, who smiled, and said “I probably shouldn’t tell you, but it’s important for you to know that there are no perfect heroes.” He continued, “Hoover and Goldberg got along well, because when Goldberg was the lawyer for the labor movement, he worked hard to rid the C.I.O. of Communist influence.” I

as one view; “We serve at the president’s displeasure,” another. OOK Ok In the West Wing of every administration since at least that of Clinton and Gore, the vice president has occupied a certain independent power base in the organization. And yet Vice President Mike Pence—the fallback guy in an admin

he was elected. At some level he had a point. One reason presidents don’t fire the director of the FBI is that they fear the consequences. It’s the Hoover syndrome: any president can be hostage to what the FBI knows, and a president who treats the FBI with something less than deference does so at his ow

: Where to begin? Personally, for me, it goes back to when George Bush won the presidency in 2000. That was due to the electoral college, even though Al Gore had won the popular vote. That same time, Hillary Clinton was elected Senator. She announced, publicly, the first thing she was going to do was get

was due to the electoral college, even though Al Gore had won the popular vote. That same time, Hillar

at it is. It’s like J. Edgar Hoover; he stayed around for decades [via] blackmail. I think it’s the same thing, You don’t have to say it, you know. Hoover would just go to JFK and say, “We found some photo of you in bed with Marilyn Monroe. But don’t you worry, we'll keep it in our safe.” EP: You've liv