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"Cloak and Gavel . . . is the product of an eight-year struggle to force the FBI to reveal its Supreme Court snooping." Wall Street Journal

"The FBI's scandalous techniques ranged from illegal wiretapping, to disinformation campaigns, to using Justice Abe Fortas as a Bureau informant." Harvard Law Review

"The result is a bonanza of Supreme Court history, providing depth and perspective to some great cases of our time." St Louis Post-Dispatch

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  The FBI versus the United States Supreme Court

FBI files obtained in two FOIA lawsuits were donated to the University of North Carolina Library

 

Other publications include "How it took Thirteen Years and Two Lawsuits to get J. Edgar Hoover's Secret Supreme Court Sex Files," (co-written with Paul M. Green), A. Theoharis (editor), Culture of Secrecy: The Government vs. The People's Right to Know  (Univ. of Kansas Press 1998);  A. Charns (editor), U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Judges FBI Files, (UPA 1992) (microfiche); and Diary of an Exploding Judge (iUniverse 2003), a murder mystery.
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