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“DEPARTMENTAL PRACTICE”
While in this cartoon Herblock identified J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, he also implicated former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and his successor, Nicholas Katzenbach (1922–2012), in flaunting the laws of the United States by permitting the use of illegal electronic surveillance in investigations. The FBI had been required, since 1940, to obtain permission from the Office of the Attorney General office to conduct wiretapping. Herblock wrote, “Wiretapping and bugging have amounted to major weapons not so much against crime as against privacy.”
“Departmental Practice,” 1966. Published in the Washington Post, July 15, 1966. |