Word: plamondon
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...phrase, as Wilson conceded, did not confer any fresh power on the President. Indeed the Administration had once argued that the phrase justified tapping the telephones of domestic security risks without a warrant, only to lose in the Supreme Court by a resounding 8-0 tally in the famous Plamondon case (formally known as U.S. v. U.S. District Court). Wilson nonetheless professed to find sustenance in even that decision, since Justice Lewis Powell had specifically excluded foreign threats to security from the ambit of his opinion...
Specifically, the case before the court involved Lawrence ("Pun") Plamondon, a member of a left-wing organization called the White Panthers, who was accused of bombing a CIA office in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Administration did not contend that any foreign government was involved, and therefore, the court ruled, there was no question that Plamondon was protected by the Fourth Amendment...
...case at issue derives from the bombing of a CIA office in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1968. The Government charged three members of a left-wing group called the White Panthers, but the principal suspect, Lawrence ("Pun") Plamondon, learned that federal agents had overheard some of his telephone conversations. Plamondon, a onetime sandalmaker and co-founder of the Panthers, demanded to know what evidence the Government had acquired from the tap. Government lawyers refused to tell...
...Secrets. The prosecution did agree to send details of the tap to Federal District Judge Damon J. Keith, who was presiding over the Plamondon pretrial hearing. Keith rejected the Government's arguments. He ruled that according to an earlier Supreme Court decision, if the Government wanted to prosecute Plamondon, it would have to tell him what it had overheard so that no illegally obtained evidence would be used against...
...past three years, four cases involving warrantless internal-security wiretaps have reached the courts. Two decisions have gone for the Government, two against. In the Plamondon case, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals endorsed Judge Keith's decision. Mitchell determined to appeal...