FBI Destroyed Walter Cronkite's File

Oh No They Didn't!

Walter Cronkite

The FBI destroyed the file of veteran newsman, Walter Cronkite. How dare they! Freedom of Information requests were submitted after his death, pursuant to Federal law, as all privacy claims are released upon the subject's passing.

However, a letter was sent from the FBI to USA Today, in response to their query, stating Cronkite's files were destroyed.

The files clearly contained invasive items targeting the journalist, such as unlawful wiretaps, illegal surveillance, mail intercepts, his bedroom tactics, profiles on his family and friends, harsh critiques of his reporting rendered by delusional FBI executives that arrogantly fancy themselves literary critics, rounding off complete intrusiveness into every facet of Cronkite's life, from what he wrote and said, to what he ate for dinner, all gathered in violation of the Constitution and U.S. Code.

Said files contained inappropriate investigation requests into the newsman, by Presidents and politicians, too nosy and power mad for their own good, who also paid too much attention to their own press and that of their respective administrations.

Robert Mueller destroyed Walter Cronkite's file two years ago, discarding taxpayer property

To preserve the false image of complying with the Constitution and Federal law, the files were incinerated by the FBI, on Robert S. Mueller's instructions, proving once again, integrity is non-existent at the Bureau.

The FBI has turned the Freedom of Information Act into a complete joke and mockery, much to the chagrin of the U.S. Congress that enacted it, embarrassing it in the nation and the world.

One cannot claim a democratic, free and open government, when rogue parties in a federal law enforcement agency, routinely break the law, whilst hypocritically claiming to uphold it. It just doesn't work that way.

What's the sense of having the Freedom of Information Act in its current capacity, if dubious, deceitful, disgraceful men like Robert S. Mueller can flout and break it at will.

Cronkite records destroyed by FBI

WASHINGTON — The FBI destroyed its files on former CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite two years ago under a policy that has been criticized by researchers for allowing potentially valuable records to be wiped out.

A search of the agency's main index of the subjects of FBI investigations found some records tied to Cronkite's name were destroyed in October 2007, the FBI said in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by USA TODAY. Cronkite's death in July at age 92 made any FBI files about him available for release under the federal law...

The FBI should have preserved records about Cronkite, who anchored CBS' newscasts from 1962 to 1981, said Scott Hodes, a former top lawyer in the FBI's records office. All FBI records on such a prominent person should have been saved under the FBI's policies, Hodes said.

"You're not supposed to destroy records that are historically valuable," Hodes said. "Somebody should have known who Walter Cronkite was."...

"They piled up the documents, and we (taxpayers) paid for it," Heard said. "With a lot of that material, the simplest thing would be to just keep it."...

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