Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite this, Webster often admonished his FBI colleagues that the end does not justify the means. Fretting over a request to bug the chambers of a Chicago judge, he told an associate, "We have to take a strategic look. Even if we win, do we lose? Are they going to say we will be in the confessional next?" He ultimately approved the bugging, but insisted the conversations could be recorded only when agents watching the judge's chambers had good reason to suspect that the visitor would offer a bribe. The case, known as Operation Greylord, resulted in the conviction...
...title evokes in equal measure the mundane pests who scurry through the apartment and the character in Kafka's Metamorphosis who arises one morning to find himself no longer a salesman but a bug. For this couple, each dawn is a reawakening to humiliation, each day a struggle to believe they can make an art as universal as Kafka's. They speak of their homeland with attempted distaste: "In Eastern Europe, nobody has a sincere smile except drunks and informers." They echo Poland's subjugation: they yearn to be Russian refugees, who they believe are more in fashion, and wish...
...minds on the music and the uncontrolled black market drugs. At home, the "oldies"--and the kids too wacked out even to crawl to the Barn--are watching channel 147, which plays an around the clock, brain washing mixture of snooker, music videos and government advertising. MTV may not bug you now, but just give it a couple years...
...once they see it work," says Cudmore, "they become believers for life." Both "Skyro" and "Bug-Eye," a hand-held portable microscope that enables children to view living insects, have been marketed by Milton Bradley...
...Select Committee probing Iranscam is determined to avoid such unseemliness. To shield its investigation from political gossip as well as foreign intelligence services, the committee will move into a new $350,000 suite in the Hart Office Building that is designed to be leakproof. Staff members will talk on bug-proof telephones, type on hacker-proof word processors and sign out research material from a "secure documents room." The offices will be protected by code-locked doors staffed around the clock by armed guards. Exterior walls will be implanted with electronic sensors to detect intruders...