The FBI was a political dirty tricks agency from its first days. J E Hoover kept dossiers on all public officials to use coercing them. First priority was alwa

The FBI was a political dirty tricks agency from its first days. J E Hoover kept dossiers on all public officials to use coercing them. First priority was always getting coninued funding and absolute autonomy for the FBI and Hoover. But next in priority was whatever the hell Hoover wanted. He may have taken his dossiers to the grave; there is no way to know. But they certainly still keep them. The FBI forensic lab for its whole existence went out of their way to falsify testimony on samples they were sent, implicating or exonerating according to what whoever sent them wanted. Their "most-wanted list" was always a political PR instrument: they put on it whoever they were about to arrest, just so they would seem successful, effective, and deserving of increased funding. Now whoever runs it inherits all their institutional power.