Word: eavesdropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frisk a suspect even if the officer's suspicions are based on the word of an unnamed tipster. When the court did find that officials had overreached their authority, however, it proved ready to slap them down, thus the Justices ruled unanimously that it is unconstitutional to eavesdrop on domestic political "suspects" without a judicial warrant...
Shortly after taking office, the Nixon Administration claimed the right to eavesdrop-without a judicial warrant -on anyone it chose to consider a threat to the national security. By the time the issue reached the Supreme Court, Nixon had appointed four new Justices, so the Government thought its chances of enforcing the claim seemed promising. But last week, by a vote of 8 to 0, with Justice William Rehnquist abstaining, the court declared that bugging or tapping domestic political "suspects" without a warrant is illegal. "Those charged with this investigative and prosecutorial duty should not be the sole judges...
According to Justice Department procedures, after Mitchell gave the go-ahead. Will Wilson, a former Assistant Attorney General in charge of the criminal division, was to write a formal letter instructing investigators to get a court order for the proposed eavesdrop. But many of Wilson's letters were actually signed by two of his aides, Henry Petersen and Harold Shapiro. Both Mitchell and Wilson permitted aides to sign for them, despite the legal requirement that Mitchell or a designated assistant personally review each bugging application. The practice went on until James Hogan, a defense lawyer in the Miami case...
...Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go," said Claudius as he sent Polonius to eavesdrop on Hamlet. The prince of petulance had his problems, not the least of which was that he was an excellent poet who could not keep his mouth shut. Compulsively putting the truth into unforgettable images and rhythms is indeed a form of madness that tyrants have always feared...
...Stockholm production. In it, the play moves out of the sitting room and into the psyche. Bergman's stage is relatively bare and expressionistic, luridly lit when it is not dark. On the peripheries of many of his scenes, characters who are supposed to be offstage linger to eavesdrop on the proceedings that concern them. Somewhat eerily, this shifts the emphasis from actual events to the manner in which they are apprehended by the characters; above all, to the way they are apprehended by Hedda, who overhears far more than anyone else. At times the drama even seems...