Word: warrantedly
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...have over their use. Many who worry about informers and police power would like to see more, not less, of such judicial control. Aryeh Neier, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, thinks that the use of police informants should be permitted only after a judge issues a warrant. Others, like Illinois Attorney Joseph R. Lundy writing in The Nation, focus their objection narrowly on political investigations. They would require a warrant authorizing the use of informers when First Amendment free speech rights are involved...
Under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, only the Attorney General or a "specially designated" Assistant Attorney General has the power to authorize federal investigators to seek a court warrant for wiretapping. The law deliberately limited authorization of wiretaps in order to allay fears of widespread, unchecked surveillance. In the Nixon Administration, only Mitchell was legally empowered to authorize wiretaps. He did not delegate that authority to an Assistant Attorney General permitted, under the law, to act in his behalf...
They returned a few minutes later with a warrant signed by the Corporation. The University had issued a warrant for Helfand's arrest on March...
Katherine Moos '75, a spokesman for SDS, said yesterday that Harvard had deliberately waited to arrest Helfand in University Hall. "He's been on University grounds since March 5 trying to get arrested. Harvard has had countless opportunities since the warrant was served," she said...
Steiner explained yesterday that although Harvard police are deputized--and can therefore make arrests--there was no precedent for a Harvard policeman to serve a warrant...