50 Years of Secrets: Why You Should Care About the FBI's 'Prohibited Access' Files

The FBI's 'Prohibited Access' Files

In an echo of Seymour Hersh's famed 'Family Jewels' story, the FBI has been caught hiding a generation of secrets.

50 Years of Secrets: Why You Should Care About the FBI's 'Prohibited Access' Files

Former CIA Director William Colby dubbed the “Family Jewels” the “skeletons in the CIA’s closet.”The Middle East is on fire, the planet on the verge of world war, the Homeland Security director just ousted. It’d hard to pay attention to anything else. Still, if you want to know why news that the FBI has begun to turn over long-concealed “prohibited access” files to Congress might matter, just ask Seymour Hersh.Fifty-two years ago, on December 21…