Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. During the latter years of his life, King was subject to extensive FBI scrutiny.OK, that’s much too kind. What King was subjected to was surveillance and harassment that bordered on the criminal, which is why I’m using this anniversary to call for a bipartisan congressional committee that will pressure the FBI into releasing — un-redacted — all of its files about the bureau’s informants and the surveillance of all civil rights and anti-war groups.
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