If You're Listening

How Trump is sending the FBI back to the 1960s


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Throughout Donald Trump’s campaign he declared that the Justice Department and the FBI were weaponised against him. 

Now that he’s US President, he’s making huge changes to both, putting loyal supporters in charge. 

Over two episodes, If You’re Listening looks at the massive transformation underway in the US federal criminal justice system, starting with the appointment of Kash Patel as Director of the FBI. 

For almost 50 years, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover used the bureau as a political weapon, and successive Presidents let him. 

The 50 years since his death have seen the FBI aim for independence from the President. Now, with Patel’s appointment, that work is at risk of being undone, with potentially terrifying consequences.

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