#247 The FBI w/ Stephen Underhill
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The FBI has been the subject of criticism and concern since it was founded in 1908, but it has nevertheless become one of the most powerful, stable, and mythologized branches of the Executive Branch of the US government. In this episode, Steve Underhill joins us to discuss the origins of the FBI, the role J. Edgar Hoover played in making the modern Brueau, and how that greater history of the FBI can help us understand how they've approached their seizure of documents from Mar-a-Lago and the subsequent attack from Donald Trump.
Dr. Stephen M. Underhill is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Marshall University, where he studies the rhetoric of law enforcement. His book The Manufacture of Consent: J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI was published in 2020.
This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.
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| 2:21.5 | And ladies and gentlemen, you may have noticed that this road we've been on recently has had |
| 2:26.6 | flashing signs warning us of the FBI, or at least on certain sides of the road. And so Bob and I |
| 2:33.1 | were talking recently about, you know, episodes |
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