The FBI

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The Bureau is Born
3. Chapter Two - J. Edgar Hoover: The Original Surveillance Addict
4. Chapter Three - Red Scare Rhapsody
5. Chapter Four - COINTELPRO: The War on Thought
6. Chapter Five - Spies, Bugs, and Broken Laws
7. Chapter Six - The FBI and the Mob: Frenemies Forever
8. Chapter Seven - Waco, Ruby Ridge, and the Militia Boom
9. Chapter Eight - 9/11 and the Patriot Act Playground
10. Chapter Nine - The FBI vs. The Presidents
11. Chapter Ten - The Modern Bureau
12. Chapter Eleven - The Illusion of Justice
13. Chapter Twelve - The Letter

Excerpt

PROLOGUE IMAGINE YOU HAD a folder on every single person you’ve ever met. Their childhood. Their secrets. Their browser history. Now imagine you had millions of them. Color-coded. Cross-referenced. Classified. You don’t make arrests. You don’t fight wars. You collect. You wait. And when the moment is right — you reach into the cabinet, pull a name, and destroy a life. That’s not a Bond villain. That’s not a Marvel plot. That’s the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And if you think that sounds dramatic, you don’t know the half of it. This isn’t a story about agents in cool jackets chasing serial killers through alleys. It’s not about the good guys stopping kidnappers, or that one nice man who...