The federal government has always had a knack for misusing our tax money in the most wasteful of ways. Take, for instance, the FBI's interest in Coretta Scott King in the years following her husband's assassination. A recently unearthed memo shows that the geniuses at the FBI were worried that the wife of a man famous for his use of non-violent resistance to effect change would become some violent anti-Vietnam rebel.

In memos that reveal Coretta Scott King being closely followed by the government, the FBI noted concern that she might attempt “to tie the anti-Vietnam movement to the civil rights movement.”

Four years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, the FBI closed its file on Coretta Scott King, saying, “No information has come to the attention of Atlanta which indicates a propensity for violence or affiliation of subversive elements,” according to a memorandum dated Nov. 30, 1972.

This is more ridiculous — but less surprising — than the time the NYPD felt the need to stalk the dangerous terrorist that is Alicia Keys, who was no doubt up to some subversive shit on the set of the Nanny Diaries.

[MSNBC]