I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

S. Theatre Works' The Play's the Thing (2001). Edgar Hoover was the nominal author of a number of books and articles.

Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him". They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. He used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists to amass secret files on political leaders and to collect evidence using illegal methods.