![]() J. Edgar Hoover (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | As ??Hoover ??s FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau ??s Image ? shows, the performance of supposedly first-rate FBI agents has been dismal time and again when the citizens of the United States needed them most, including perhaps most notably the run-up to the events of September 11, 2001. What the FBI excelled at, especially under its long-time chief J. Edgar Hoover, was a non-stop public relations campaign that portrayed the agency as a heroic band of G-men who skillfully tracked and felled dangerous criminals. |




