The Imperial Bureau: The FBI, Political Surveillance, and the Rise of the US National Security State

A revelatory new history of the FBI that explores the relationship between domestic political surveillance and the emergence of the US national security state

Throughout its history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has tracked and monitored domestic political movements—and its war on American dissent is far from over. The FBI has in recent years spied on both the Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter movements. Following the national uprising in response to the police murder of Georg...