Edgar Hoover. The F.B.I. should be so lucky ... of the Administration’s tangles with the F.B.I. and the D.O.J. His book name-checks just about every far-right grievance of the era: Benghazi ...

But if that were to occur, it would not be the first time. The agency's longest serving director, J. Edgar Hoover, authorized covert harassment campaigns against perceived enemies like the Rev.