Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...privy to all information the FBI has relating to any specific investigation [and] operate as openly as possible." The committee's job would be to see that any new law was honored; demand the names of groups being infiltrated; oversee the use of bugs, wiretaps and informants; monitor FBI relations with the Attorney General; and judge the propriety of orders from the White House. Kelley was all for an oversight committee. "Congress must assume a continuing role, not in the initial decision-making process but in the review of our performance," he said. He added: "I think that...
...inflated hopes for biofeedback may have been related to the growth of interest in Eastern mysticism. Glowingly described by fans as "electronic yoga," biofeedback seemed to offer inner exploration without drugs, religion or psychotherapy. The revelation that biofeedback machines could monitor the brain's alpha waves - associated with relaxation and meditation - led to the proliferation of "alpha" institutes and training centers, many of them now defunct. "Getting high on alpha" peaked in 1973, when some colleges offered credit for alpha experience...
...doctors have for years fought to keep the Federal Government from ruling on what is necessary, proper care. In the most recent defense of their professional prerogative, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons had gone to court to block enforcement of a new Social Security amendment that will monitor the treatment given Medicare and Medicaid patients. The doctors argued that such a system violated their constitutional right to practice medicine and their patients' right to receive treatment...
...monitoring of U.S. dissidents began with Lyndon Johnson's anxiety that foreigners were financing and organizing antiwar groups seeking to drive him from office. The FBI and CIA submitted watch lists. The Defense Intelligence Agency had the NSA monitor the foreign communications of about 20 Americans who were traveling to North Viet...
...million class-action suit charging the NSA ,and CIA with running a large and illegal spying campaign against antiwar elements in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The suit was brought on behalf of 7,200 individuals and 1,000 groups on which the two agencies supposedly kept files, monitored calls and cables and opened mail. Among the defendants are four communications companies-RCA Global Communications, ITT World Communications, Western Union and American Cable and Radio Corp.-that allegedly cooperated with the agencies by helping them monitor communications. Of course it was the U.S. Government that persuaded the companies years...