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"Drawing on thousands of pages of declassified FBI documents, [this book] shows how America's guerrilla war prompted the FBI to institute a host of new policing measures while reviving illegal spy techniques previously used against communists in the name of fighting terrorism. These efforts did little to stop the guerrillas--instead, they led to a bureaucratic struggle between the Nixon administration and the FBI that fueled the Watergate scandal and brought down Nixon. Yet despite their internal conflicts, FBI and White House officials developed preemptive surveillance practices that would inform U.S. counterterrorism strategies into the twenty-first century, entrenching mass surveillance as a cornerstone of the national security state"--
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Daniel S. Chard is visiting assistant professor of history at Western Washington University.
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Drawing on thousands of pages of declassified FBI documents, Daniel Chard shows how America's war with domestic guerillas during the Nixon presidency prompted a host of new policing measures as the FBI revived illegal spy techniques previously used against communists in the name of fighting terrorism.
