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Trump executive order prompts request to release FBI wiretap records two years early, over objections by the civil rights ...
A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI's surveillance of Martin ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights ...
(AP Photo/JL, File)(AP/JL) WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files ...
In 1977, a court order directed the FBI to collect records about its surveillance and monitoring of King and turn them over to the National Archives and Records Administration.
The 1977 court order required the FBI to compile records of its telephone wiretapping operations, between 1963 and 1968, at King’s home and at the SCLC offices in Atlanta and New York.