Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horrible oversight) it is immediately clear that the movie borrows only a little and, I suppose, an audience from the book. The script, which appears to have been written by a select society on the order of the Warren Commission, is also about as funny as the Warren Report, and as likely to be the spy movie to end all spy movies as the Warren Commission's product is to be the final word on the Kennedy assassination...
Justice Department officials are not the only critics of President Johnson's bill to curb wiretapping and bugging except in security cases. Although it was not known at the time of his State of the Union Message, the President's own National Crime Commission, which did not submit the report of its 18-month study of crime until almost two weeks after the privacy bill was introduced, had on December 30 backed down--under pressure from Johnson aides--from a recommendation for legislation permitting electronic surveillance by police...
...commission's 308-page crime report, submitted to Congress on February 19, said that "a majority of the members of the commission believe that legislation should be enacted granting carefully circumscribed authority for electronic surveillance to law enforcement officers...
This recommendation, in effect, placed the commission at odds with the President's privacy bill. Jawarski and his group had held firm. The commission technically avoided directly opposing the President's bill by recommending only that "Congress should enact legislation dealing specifically with wiretapping and bugging." The report nevertheless provides ammunition for opponents of the administration bill...
...Justice Department's fight against organized crime, according to the commission's report, reached its peak under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy '48, but lost its effectiveness in 1965. The commission attributed this decline to press charges of illegal wiretapping made against several federal agencies...