Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered a striking justification of the surveillance effort against Martin Luther King, Jr. during an interview with Politico on Sunday.

Kennedy, who is seeking the 2024 presidency as an independent, defended his family's authorization of the FBI's wiretapping of the civil rights leader — a day before the national holiday honoring King.

The surveillance campaign was done by the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, but was authorized by Kennedy's father, Attorney General........

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