Word: warrants
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...worldwide and a vast computer complex in Maryland allow the NSA to tap into and record all electronic messages entering or leaving the country. A 1975 post-Watergate Senate panel described the NSA setup as a "giant vacuum cleaner." But unlike domestic law-enforcement agencies, which must obtain a warrant from a Federal Judge before tapping phone messages, the NSA gets warrants from a special secret panel of judges...
There are several problems with the NSA's structure. By shrouding the warrant process in secrecy, the government restricts the public from finding out or reviewing when and why wiretapping is authorized. The use of secret judges also distorts the warrant-requirement limits placed on domestic law-enforcement agencies. In the Jabara case, for example, the NSA supplied tapped information to the FBI, 17 domestic agencies and three foreign governments. The FBI, which never formally charged the lawyer with any crime, could not have obtained a warrant...
...years ago, women's soccer had become big enough to warrant an AIAW national tournament and despite losing the Ivy title to Brown. Harvard was there and ended up with a third place finish...
...Hatch's 15 percent to 8 percent lead over the last two weeks--he has had to walk a tightrope between attacking the president's policies and appearing to support the man himself. In Utah, says Wilson's campaign manager Micheal Graham, it's still "a candidate's death warrant" to criticize Reagan on anything but the economy...
Howard M. Erickson '84 said that he thought that Women's Studies is too particular a field to warrant its own faculty. "After all, with [the Equal Rights Amendment] and all that, Women's Studies is not something that will be endlessly relevant. One day the division between men and women will no longer be necessary," he predicted...