Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scandal and uproar. The White House wiretaps of Kissinger's staff, no matter how unpleasant, were different from Watergate. They represented an Administration effort to protect its own security against leaks that it rightly or wrongly considered dangerous to its foreign policies. Government wiretapping without a court warrant is perfectly legal in cases involving suspected foreign agents, and it was considered legal by the Attorney General in domestic-security cases until last summer, when the Supreme Court banned the practice...
Dean's "report" came back verbally from Ehrlichman. The White House explanation followed Dean's insistence that he had never made such a report to the President (TIME, May 21) and that the limited checking he did would not warrant the original conclusion announced by Nixon...
...Vesco, he has defied an order to appear before the grand jury, and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. The SEC fraud suit is now before the courts; it seeks to halt further plundering from Investors Overseas Services. If this civil action is successful, the decision could well become the basis for a criminal suit against Vesco. Meanwhile, he is believed to be living in comfort in Costa Rica (see BUSINESS) and planning to become a citizen of that country...
Without a warrant, without identifying themselves in any comprehensible way, the agents had terrorized the Giglottos for half an hour. A unique blunder by overzealous investigators trying to crack a narcotics ring? Hardly. A little later the same night in Collinsville, a service station operator, Donald Askew, 40, and his family were about to sit down for a late dinner when their dog began barking frantically. Askew's wife Virginia, 39, was the first to see the man standing outside the open living-room window. "I looked," says Askew, "and the man looked just like my boy, long hair...
...Firebrand Russell Means in Los Angeles. Means faces eleven counts on various charges in connection with the takeover. When a Deadwood, S. Dak. court caught Means in a technicality relating to the filing of his $25,000 bond, Judge Andrew W. Bogue revoked the bond, and a warrant was issued for Means' arrest...