Comments on: President Hinckley and J. Edgar Hoover

By: Adam Greenwood

Adam Greenwood — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:20:36 +0000

Hinckley investigated by FBI to see if he worshipped alien lizards in extensive underground tunnels.

By: Marc Bohn

Marc Bohn — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:10:42 +0000

I thought reading through the contemporary assessments of Gordon B. Hinckley from friends, colleagues, associates, etc. was pretty fascinating actually. Perhaps I’m a history geek though.

By: Costanza

Costanza — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:26:27 +0000

If that’s a “pretty interesting” file I would hate to see a dull one. The Trib’s headline was comical though (something like “GBH Investigated By FBI to See if He was a Spy.” It might as well have been “Hinckley Investigated by FBI to see if he Murdered Puppies and Smoked Grass With Cab Calloway while Sacrificing Goats to Satan.” Turns out they didn’t find any evidence of those things either, but they might have.

By: Eric Russell

Eric Russell — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:54:08 +0000

Anyone applying for a government job gets a background check. This has got to be the biggest non-story I’ve ever seen in a newspaper.

By: bloggernacleburner

bloggernacleburner — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:56:17 +0000

Joe Cannon seems to have had a newsgasm over this, I’ve never seen so many stories in my RSS feed from the Deseret News regarding the investigation into GBH’s background.

Background check Joe. Move along, Move along.

By: Alison Moore Smith

Alison Moore Smith — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:36:18 +0000

Interesting. I tend to agree with John on this. So you’ve got reams of papers delving into someone’s life–just to show, “THERE’S NOTHING TO SEE HERE!”

By: Adam Greenwood

Adam Greenwood — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:26:35 +0000

I expect to see this in an anti-Mormon tract soon. FBI INVESTIGATED MORMON “PROPHET” !

By: John Mansfield

John Mansfield — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:20:52 +0000

I don’t understand why these things are released instead of destroyed. The release of such files is 1,000 times the incursion upon privacy that the compilation of them was. And if historical interests dictate that such things be released to the public, one year from the death of the subject is far too short a time. Twenty or fifty years might be about right.

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:13:31 +0000

Signature published a limited edition volume of the Ezra Taft Benson FBI files this year. I understand that there wasn’t anything particularly earth-shattering.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:18:59 +0000

These guys are just as boring as they seem. I’d be interested to see the E.T. Benson documents, especially since his government involvement was cabinet level.