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On the recordDecember 6, 2017
Would it have been inappropriate of President Kennedy ordered Director Hoover to stop surveilling Martin Luther King Jr., in say 1962, if he believed that surveillance was illegitimate?
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Ron DeSantis
Republican · Florida

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DeSantis questions the appropriateness of political interference in surveillance activities.

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