The U.S. and Global Security Review - Blog by Michael Novakhov

FBI director nominee James Comey oversees a growing part of the US surveillance state. Photograph: Gary Cameron/Reuters The mentality of J Edgar Hoover’s FBI undergirds today’s surveillance state People forget that the FBI is the NSA's primary partner in domestic spying, which allows them to work in secret Trevor Timm theguardian.com ,  Saturday 19 April 2014 15.00 BST Jump to comments  ( 24 ) The new documentary  1971 , about the  formerly anonymous  FBI burglars who exposed the crimes of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, debuted to a rapt audience at the Tribecca film festival last night. As the filmmakers noted in an interview  with the AP, the parallels between Nixon-era FBI whistleblowers and Edward Snowden's NSA revelations are almost eerie in their similarity. But while the NSA connection seems obvious, the movie will actually shed light on the domestic intelligence agency with far more power over ordinary Americans: the modern FB