Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, appointed to the office 10 months earlier by President Woodrow Wilson, led the sweep against suspected communists and anarchists, as well as their sympathizers.

Mitchell Palmer is a graduate student at George Mason University and currently works in the cybersecurity field. He has contributed to quantum-cryptography research and consulted for a quantum ...

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 November 1919 and January 1920, in what notoriously became known as the “Palmer Raids,” Attorney General Mitchell Palmer began rounding up and deporting so-called radicals. Thousands of people were ...

Mitchell Palmer. In the midst of general hysteria concerning Communist infiltration of America after the war, anarchists bombed Palmer's home in 1919. The Attorney General used the attack to ...