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J Edgar Hoover's oversteps: Why FBI directors are forbidden from getting cozy with presidents

  • Written by Douglas M. Charles, Associate Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University
imageFormer FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

How are U.S. presidents and FBI directors supposed to communicate?

A new FBI director has recently been nominated, former Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray. He will certainly be thinking carefully about this question as he awaits confirmation.

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