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The FBI

How a Filing Cabinet Took Over America

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The FBI

By: James Johnson
Narrated by: Steve Krumlauf
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The FBI: How a Filing Cabinet Took Over America is a surgical walk through the most powerful domestic surveillance machine in U.S. history — and the terrifying banality behind it. From its paranoid birth to its modern algorithmic glow-up, this book traces how the FBI evolved from a desk job into an empire. This isn’t a thriller. This isn’t a rant. It’s the story of how America’s most trusted agency spent a hundred years collecting secrets, destroying lives, and filing it all away. J. Edgar Hoover. COINTELPRO. MLK. Waco. 9/11. Metadata. Informants. Blackmail. Bureaucracy as weapon. Every chapter follows the paper trail — no speculation, no soapbox. If you think the FBI exists to protect you, this book might hurt your feelings.

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