Nick Bryant

If the government needed a cover-up, Stan Pottinger would be there.

He covered up Kent State, where the four students got shot by National Guardsmen.

There was a tape, the Justice Department had a tape of those soldiers being ordered to shoot

But the grand jury that Pottinger oversaw, that tape was never played.

And actually, that tape didn't come out until like 2005.

So he covered that up.

And the FBI had a program called COINTELPRO, in which it completely trampled on the rights of Americans, open mail and...

During this period, a letter was sent to Martin Luther King, who was about to get the Nobel Peace Prize.

And it had, I think it had like some tapes of King having an affair.

And the letter, which I believe was written by William Sutherland, who was like the number three guy, told King that he needed to commit suicide.

before he accepted the Nobel Prize, these tapes would come out.

Coretta King, his wife, was called and told about his affairs.

So it was really, COINTELPRO was really nasty, especially like with the American Indian movement and also the Black Panthers.

And there's evidence that

COINTELPRO definitely contributed to the death of Fred Hampton, who was a Black Panther in Chicago.

But there was a member of the American Indian movement named Emery Aquish, and the FBI floated information that she was an informant, and she was murdered by two members of the American Indian movement because they thought she was an informant.

So the church hearings, which looked into COINTELPRO, found all this stuff out about what had been going on.

And they had 20,000 pages of documents, and they'd interviewed a number of FBI agents.

And Stan Pottinger was going to come in and he was going to exact justice.

And no one got indicted.