In 1919, after a series of bomb attacks — one on his own home — Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer set up a new division within the Justice Department. Known as the “Radical Division ...

In 1920, threats against the life of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, because of his activities in suppressing criminal radicalism, led officials to take every precaution to guard the head of ...

They range from A. Mitchell Palmer, mastermind of the original Red Scare that decimated the left in the wake of the First World War, to Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III and William Pelham Barr ...