Nixon's War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism by Daniel S. Chard (review).

According to the author, the book "seeks to trace the ways that insurgents and state agents unintentionally goaded each other forward - how the state's preemptive tactics amplified leftist paranoia, just as guerrilla violence informed and sometimes helped legitimize the FBI and Nixon administration's frequently extralegal programs" (p. 3). Since then, the tense relationship between the FBI and the White House has significantly shaped political debates and impacted widely followed events, including the Mueller investigation and notably Trump's firing of Comey as FBI director. Even though his concern involved negative reactions from U.S. citizens towards FBI activities, Hoover and other FBI directives also intended to create the perception among the targets of the FBI that they were G-men and informants "behind every mailbox." In Daniel Chard's compelling book, I Nixon's War at Home i , the author includes the case of I U.S. vs U.S. District Court i - also known as the Keith Case - as one of several events that had both an immediate and long-term impact for the White House and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). [Extracted from the article]