to help avoid further danger. Congress obliged, not only supplying funds, but going one step further. The message was then made clear: foreign radicals were to all be deported. The government had formulated and put into effect their plan to rid the country of unwanted foreign radicals, but the problem remained as what to do with those radicals were citizens of the United States. This was not to go unanswered for long, however. In June of 1919, New York state officials raided the Rand School of Social Science in New York, as well as the headquarters of the I.W.W. and the Socialists. These raids were a product of a New York legislature action that created the Lusk Committee. The idea behind this committee was anit-radical, and the tactics of said committee spread nationwide very quickly, or their methods of "defending the republic". Even with all the legislation in place, Attorney General Palmer complained that not enough was not enough was being done to deport aliens. It is ironic that after the Red Scare, he argued for the release of a Socialist that was imprisoned during the Scare. However, during it he helped convict many in a similar situation. It is highly probable that he held his anti-liberal veiws only because he had presidential ambitions. But it must also be considered that he himself was the target of a bombing. His actions may merely have been out of fear, but his wavering attitudes hold no true reason. In the August of that same year, Palmer created an intelligence department to deal with problems originating with anarchists and that ilk. He appointed J. Edgar Hoover to lead this newly founded agency. Hoover created files on each "subversive" organization. One of the first field assignments of this agency was to raid The Union of Russian Workers in New York. Palmer was not the most extreme of these anti-radicals. Senator Kenneth McKellen of Tennessee went so far as to propos...
