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The FBI’s Gestapo Tactics: Hallmarks of an Authoritarian Regime
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2022
by Nisha Whitehead, John W. Whitehead
published in Criminal Legal News
October, 2022, page 16
Filed under:
Police State-Surveillance.
Location:
United States of America.
by John & Nisha Whitehead
This article was originally published by The Rutherford Institute on August 22, 2022. It is reprinted here with permission.
“We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction.” —Harry Truman
With every passing day, the United States government borrows ...
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