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...suspicions are based on the word of an unnamed tipster. When the court did find that officials had overreached their authority, however, it proved ready to slap them down, thus the Justices ruled unanimously that it is unconstitutional to eavesdrop on domestic political "suspects" without a judicial warrant...
Shortly after taking office, the Nixon Administration claimed the right to eavesdrop-without a judicial warrant -on anyone it chose to consider a threat to the national security. By the time the issue reached the Supreme Court, Nixon had appointed four new Justices, so the Government thought its chances of enforcing the claim seemed promising. But last week, by a vote of 8 to 0, with Justice William Rehnquist abstaining, the court declared that bugging or tapping domestic political "suspects" without a warrant is illegal. "Those charged with this investigative and prosecutorial duty should not be the sole judges...
What paths will the Administration now follow? The President at his press conference said that no legislation would be sought to eliminate the warrant requirement. Other Administration sources, however, were interested by a suggestion in the court's opinion that Congress could establish different and presumably easier standards for issuing warrants in security cases...
Conforti, 48, has no criminal record and says he will sue to recover his losses. His lawyer argues that "the search warrant just says they can search -not search and destroy. This isn't Viet
...should pay Conforti is also unclear. The Federal Government can plead "sovereign immunity." The individual narcotics agents would be able to claim that they are protected as agents of the Government if they can prove that they acted in "good faith" on the instructions of the search warrant. The bureau's associate regional director, Frank Monastero, who supervised the search, regrets only the failure to find any loot. "We didn't send in a lot of guys with instructions of 'you pound here' and 'you pound there,' " he says. "We went through a series...