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...Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights ended its hearings into the extent of Government surveillance of citizens last week. The hearings produced no clear-cut plans for remedial legislation. They did, however, accomplish the aim of the subcommittee's chairman, North Carolina Senator Sam J. Ervin (TIME, March 8), by dramatizing the difficulty of preserving privacy in a world drifting toward...
...Ervin has been plumping for an inquiry into the impact of Government data banks on individual rights since 1967, when he learned that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare was using stored information to blacklist scientists for their political views. Two years later, he heard about the Secret Service's data bank, which houses information on 50,000 persons, including some who are described vaguely as "professional gate crashers" and some who "insist upon personally contacting high Government officials for the purpose of redress of imaginary grievances." Ervin figured he just might fit into the latter category...
Blanket Surveillance. Last year John O'Brien, a former Army intelligence agent, disclosed that the Army had spied on a number of U.S. politicians, including Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, now a U.S. Senator. Ervin decided that the time had come for his subcommittee to act. In four weeks of hearings, he and his colleagues, including Liberal Democrats Ted Kennedy, Birch Bayh and John Tunney, heard 45 witnesses. Among them...
Machines Above Law. Last week Rehnquist returned to the hearings and asserted that the Government has the right to spy on any citizen-including Senator Ervin-as long as the citizen is not forced to disclose information and the information is not used against him in court. The Senators understood that the Government needs to use computers and data banks for administrative purposes, including crime control. But they were distressed that Rehnquist seemed to think such a system should be allowed to grow unchecked. "There is not a syllable in the Constitution," Ervin snapped, "that gives the Federal Government...
Recent testimony before. Senator Sam Ervin's committee investigating surveillance by civilian and military spies has indicated the magnitude of the threat posed by such activities to political activists of all sorts. The CLUM suit is important because it attacks surveillance by a local police force. Local political spying can be especially threatening, as the cases of Hornsby and Yaffe show...