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Read this the other day- truly frightening. Also too, the irony of a cross dressing bigot presuming to lecture anyone on morals or what constitutes abnormal... Face it, in this day and age Hoover would be a consummate internet troll

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I am the very model of a moderate Major Nazi General

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That's Hedley

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Don't get me started on MLK, I'm still pissed about the way they treated Dillinger!

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D'oh!

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Rule 34

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I want to believe

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This is Pre-Kardashian slut shaming. Meh.

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So you've heard, right?

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I bet Hoover and Hermann Goering are getting along well in whatever depth of hell they're currently occupying.

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Hoover's FBI held men to a greater standard. MLK was a horrible sex pervert because he had sex with multiple women outside of marriage - disgusting! From Edgar's point of view having sex with one's wife was distasteful, but unavoidable. Anyone who would willfully place his member in a strange woman's pit-of-deceit was simply ...Eeeuw!

No,according to Hoover, a true leader is a man who is chaste with women and a strong, close comrade with other men. Strong men with whom you can trust and share all of your deep inner feelings, while still occasionally showing your softer more vulnerable side. You know, just the two of you in smoking jackets, sipping brandy and communing in manly fashion, like a couple of real men. But then it starts getting late, and you really have been drinking a bit so maybe you shouldn't drive home. No, really sleep in the guest room it's fine, I'll just be in the room next door.

And then in the morning you have eggs.

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Did Tim Gunn Meet J. Edgar Hoover Dressed in Drag as Vivian Vance? <a href="http://movieline.com/2010/0..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://movieline.com/2010/08/31/tim-gunn-suspects...">http://movieline.com/2010/0...

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Layers libel!

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<blockquote>We’re a little reassured by this detail in Gage’s report: “The current F.B.I. director, James Comey, keeps a copy of the King wiretap request on his desk as a reminder of the bureau’s capacity to do wrong.”</blockquote>

There was also that whole thing where he arranged a line of bodies to barricade John Ashcroft's hospital bed so Gonzalez and Card couldn't browbeat an ailing man into signing off on the warrantless wiretapping program that was already well underway.

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they're probably still terrified Hoover will come back from the dead with his secret files if they try to redact his image and name from the current institution. that kind of evil seems to hang around like boogers and old chewing gum.

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I noticed it wasn't dated. I'd hate to think about that too hard

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