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A 1950 Plan: Arrest 12,000, Suspend Due Process – New York Times

A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the long-time director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans that he suspected of disloyalty.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XhvG_fD0HA[/youtube] Part of Google’s great At Google Talks series on YouTube.