Word: fbi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Violence flared anew last week on the Pine Ridge reservation of the Oglala Sioux in South Dakota. It was there in 1973 that militant Indians occupied the town of Wounded Knee for two months and two Indians were killed. This time the victims were two FBI agents, slaughtered by a band of Indian militants, and one of their attackers...
...trouble began when four Indians kidnaped two young whites, releasing them a few hours later. Two days later the FBI arrested one Indian and the following day sent Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, both 28, to Oglala with warrants for the arrest of the other three. The agents headed toward a hamlet down a dirt road flanked at the end by 20-ft.-high rocky banks. Indians apparently opened fire on the car from both sides. Coler and Williams radioed a desperate Mayday call and succeeded in turning the car around, but could not get away. Their assailants apparently...
When more FBI agents and Bureau of Indian Affairs police arrived, they exchanged gunfire for several hours with some 16 Indians in the area, killing one of the attackers. As sporadic firing continued and Government agents awaited word on whether to storm the hamlet houses, the Indians slipped away. But the escape may prove temporary; a large force of FBI and other law-enforcement officials, determined to track down the FBI men's killers, descended on the reservation and fanned out in a massive search effort...
Ehrlichman's lawyers are vigorously citing another case in the D.C. court of appeals. In that one, the FBI, with approval by then Attorney General John Mitchell, bugged the headquarters of the Jewish Defense League in New York City. New York Attorney Bertram Zweibon, a former J.D.L. member, and others sued Mitchell and the FBI for damages. At the time its offices were bugged, the J.D.L. was harassing Soviet diplomats in the U.S. as part of its efforts on behalf of Soviet Jews. The league lost its case at the trial when the judge agreed with the Justice Department...
...fine, claims that the two cases are really entirely different. On the one hand, it is not claimed that the President had specifically ordered the Ellsberg breakin; and if he had, standard law-enforcement procedure would have been to go through the Attorney General. On the other hand, the FBI was given authority for the J.D.L. bugging by the Attorney General, who has repeatedly claimed the right to act without a court order in national security cases involving foreign powers. How the judges will react to the asserted distinctions remains to be seen...