Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another development yesterday, government attorneys said that time has run out on Federal judge W. Arthur Garrity's order that the government state whether or not they have wiretapped Noam Chomsky and Richard Falk. Garrity ordered the government to avow or disavow wiretapping before it could subpoena...
Gravel's motion arises from a grand jury subpoena served on Leonard S. Rodberg, a physicist at the Institute for Policy Studies whom Gravel hired as an administrative aide to help publish his edition of the Pentagon study...
Rodberg asked Garrity to quash the subpoena last month on the grounds that it violated Gravel's legislative immunity, Garrity ruled that Rodberg could refuse to discuss actual Congressional business but that he must still testify. Gravel and Rodberg then appealed to the circuit court...
However, Chomsky also filed a second motion, in which he argued that he has reason to believe that some of his telephone conversations have been tapped and therefore that his subpoena may have sprung from illicitly obtained evidence. In the final section of his affidavit, which is not printed here, he presented the bases for his suspicions. One was that the phones of the organization RESIST, which he co-founded and often calls from elsewhere are very likely tapped, since the government has apparently even searched its trash; another was that he has spoken to a number of the Harrisburg...
Last Friday, Garrity ruled that he would quash Chomsky's subpoena unless the government states, by today, whether or not it has eavesdropped on Chomsky. The government is generally reluctant to make such disclosures. It is by no means certain that it will make one in this case...