Despite protests from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s family and the civil rights group he once led, the Trump administration has made public records of the FBI's surveillance of the slain civil rights icon.

Why it matters: The move pits President Trump's determination to release documents the government has kept secret for more than a half-century against the family's lingering pain over how J. Edgar Hoover's FBI spied on King and tried to intimidate and humiliate him. • It also comes as Trump is refusing to release documents that the Wall Street Journal said is connected to his own recent past — the Epstein files.

Driving the news: Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard released on Monday over 230,000 pages of documents related to the 1968 assassination of MLK, the agency

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