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To: one_less who wrote (235050)	7/2/2007 8:30:26 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Never mind. Granted there is a difference between civil disobediance and lying to protect your boss or what you might think is the national interest but in both cases the similarity is if caught, and then if prosecuted, you go to jail and you should go without complaining. I predicted commutation instead of partition but expected some sort of imprisonment.

To: one_less who wrote (235050)	7/3/2007 12:18:42 AM
From: c.hinton	Respond to of 281500

The Atlantic Monthly \| July/August 2002 The FBI and Martin Luther King Martin Luther King was never himself a Communist—far from it. But the FBI's wiretapping of King was precipitated by his association with Stanley Levison, a man with reported ties to the Communist Party. Newly available documents reveal what the FBI actually knew—the vast extent of Levinson's Party activities by David J. Garrow ..... n October 10, 1963, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy committed what is widely viewed as one of the most ignominious acts in modern American history: he authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to begin wiretapping the telephones of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Kennedy believed that one of King's closest advisers was a top-level member of the American Communist Party, and that King had repeatedly misled Administration officials about his ongoing close ties with the man. Kennedy acted reluctantly, and his order remained secret until May of 1968, just a few weeks after King's assassination and a few days before Kennedy's own. But the FBI onslaught against King that followed Kennedy's authorization remains notorious, and the stains on the reputations of everyone involved are indelible. Yet at the time, neither Robert Kennedy nor anyone else outside the FBI knew more than a tiny part of the story that had led to that decision, or even the identities of the two FBI informants who had set the investigation in motion. Only in 1981 were their names—Jack and Morris Childs—publicly revealed, but even then the relevant documents were so heavily redacted that only the most bare-bones sketch of what had taken place was possible.