Word: monitorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...license for political harassment and an invasion of privacy. But he also presents it as a paradigm of police inefficiency. It may take 20 men to install one tap, often by breaking and entering the suspect's home, plus as many as six more men to monitor the tap, often for months and months in which they could be gathering solid evidence instead of recording mostly innocent chatter. Clark's Justice Department shunned bugging-but in 1968 somehow managed to indict 1,166 figures from organized crime, a record-breaking total for the decade...
...Loeb's scheme, computers would monitor the odds for all U.S. sporting events, detect suspicious swings of big money and thus discourage fixes. Customers could dial a bet and have the transaction entered on their phone bills. The Government would not pay bribes, which cost the Mob about $2 billion a year. It could make winnings tax-free and still get by with a 10% to 20% rake-offless than half the Mob's reported take. In short, the Government could offer better odds. As Loeb figures it, the Government might net $15 billion a year...
...intelligence units should be permitted to watch controversial political figures on the theory that "agitators" cause riots, and the extent to which the Army through the CIAD should be expected to analyze political and social aspects of civil disturbances. Finally, the hearings must define the Army's authority to monitor civilian politics in light of such principles as the civilian control of the military, state and civilian primacy in law enforcement, the decentralization of intelligence duties, and obedience to the constitutional scheme of the separate branches of government sharing policy-making powers...
...evidence was frankly not good enough for the U.S. intelligence community, which had been shown the pictures the week before. The resulting dispute stemmed in part from the substantial differences in the ways the U.S. and Israel gather and evaluate their intelligence. To monitor the Suez Canal front, the Israelis rely chiefly on high-speed passes by camera-carrying Phantoms during the daytime. At night, the mainstay of Israeli intelligence is a chain of electronic listening posts in the Sinai hills near the canal. But both these methods have glaring weaknesses: the Phantom pictures are often blurred, and the electronic...
...Whose fellow council members are Robert Cahn, Washington correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, and Gordon J.F. Mac-Donald, a geophysicist at the University of California at Santa Barbara...