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The building in Media, Penn. where burglars in 1971 found evidence of decades of FBI abuses against citizens. Betty Medsger

Trump’s targeting of ‘enemies’ like James Comey echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover

Donald Trump has a partisan ally running the FBI. He’s urged retribution against his perceived enemies. Will today’s FBI repeat the vast, unconstitutional persecutions of the J. Edgar Hoover era?
FBI agents at a news conference announce the addition of Daniel Andreas San Diego, top right, to the FBI’s list of most-wanted terrorists in April 2009 at FBI Headquarters in Washington. AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File

FBI director guides the agency in confronting complex international threats, investigating federal crimes and running 55 field offices

The FBI investigates everything from terrorist threats to cybercrime to public corruption. What does the presidentially nominated, Senate-confirmed head of the sprawling agency actually do?

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