FDR - wiretaps, intimidation, misuse of FBI & IRS.
Eggleston also notes Roosevelt's political use of law enforcement agencies, an issue that historians are increasingly addressing. (See, for example, Richard W. Steele, "Franklin D. Roosevelt and His Foreign Policy Critics," Political Science Quarterly 44 [Spring 19791: 15-22; Roy Turnbaugh, "The FBI and Harry Elmer Barnes: 1936-1944," The Historian 42 [May 19801: 385-398).
On May 21, 1940, Roosevelt authorized his attorney-general to bug certain private telephone lines. Lindbergh soon told Eggleston that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had ordered wire taps on all Lindbergh telephones, the phones of the America First Committee, and the lines of Scribner's Commentator. (Both Lindbergh and Eggleston said that they welcomed the electronic surveillance, as they had nothing to hide). Eggleston also claimed that the Internal Revenue Service was used politically against him and Stewart. For Eggleston, however, such intimidation was just beginning.
Tricky dick? HA! Nixon, nor Kenedy were the first to misuse wiretaps or the FBI & IRS - they were following in AUTHORITARIAN FDR's footsteps - THE pioneer OF AUTHORITARIAN abuse of power in an American President.
Note this wiretap was BEFORE Pearl Harbor and US entry into the war. Eggleston and Lindbergh had to "WELCOME" the wiretaps, because FDR, Luce etcetera had already created the mob mentality and they valued their lives.
Like you're going to find this out what a MONSTER FDR was in a Jonathan Alter book...LOL!
That's the real story here Robert. How the LEFT has buried the TRUTH for DECADES, suppressed with an IRON HEEL and left their naive sycophants thinking they are angels.
Wake up Robert! Smell the coffee! You're being lied to. Dean, Alter...Olbermann - they treat you like uninformed, mindless slush who will soak up their lies and half-truths and empower and enrich them merely by believing.
I do this as a public service. Tom may have given up on throwing life presevers to you after you shove them away, but I'm throwing you the life preserver, nevertheless - it's up to you to take it and save yourself though.
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