Word: warrantedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfectly legal, they said, even though it had been installed without a judicial warrant, because warrants are not necessary in cases involving a threat to "national security." This is true not only for the traditional danger from a foreign power, the Justice Department maintains, but also for the security threat posed by the current radical protest movement. Besides, the Government said, the overheard conversations had nothing to do with the bombing charges, and the tap was on the phone of another organization, not the White Panthers...
...General Erwin Griswold insisted that radical protests within the U.S. are "interrelated" with security threats from abroad. The Government was merely gathering intelligence to protect the nation, he said, not deliberately seeking evidence for criminal prosecutions. If each case had to be submitted to a judge to get a warrant, Griswold added, "the Government would have to disclose sensitive and highly secret information." Judges, he said, are not as qualified as the Attorney General to make the "subtle inferences" involved. Even though the Attorney General might abuse his power, that "is not a valid basis for denying [him] the authority...
Americans usually keep up with current events by reading newspapers and magazines and watching television. Now they have their choice of still another news medium: the T shirt. Not long after a warrant was issued for the arrest of Angela Davis, for example...
Carl Griffin, under pressure from a warrant for his arrest, turned himself into the Cambridge police after consultation early last week with his lawyer, Henry F. Owens III. Cambridge city councillor. Owen said yesterday that Griffin had pleaded not guilty and is now being held in Billerica House of Correction. He said that there will be a hearing on Thursday to determine "probable cause" for holding Griffin...
Cambridge Police yesterday received a warrant for the arrest of Carl Griffin, a suspect in the Saturday night murder of the manager of the Club Casablanca...