Word: wiretapped
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...bill introduced by New York's Kenneth Keating would authorize the FBI and military intelligence services to wiretap in national-security cases-after obtaining a court order. The bill solves the admissibility problem by bleaching the color of illegality from future evidence...
Brownell objects to the Keating bill's court-order provision on the ground that it would conflict with the special need for secrecy in investigations of Communist conspiracy. But Brownell's weightier objection to the Keating bill is that it would make only future wiretap evidence admissible. Brownell wants to be able to use the wiretap evidence already on file...
...Authorize the FBI, and possibly a few other federal agencies, to wiretap in serious national-security cases where there is evidence of actual criminality...
...Forbid all other wiretapping. To make the ban effective, the law would have to provide stiff penalties, not only for tapping but also for procuring or hiring a wiretapper or possessing wiretap equipment...
Such a law would not satisfy either the anti-wiretap liberal or the pro-wiretap law enforcer. But a middle way between those two schools is probably the right track for a nation that has to deal with both the Communist conspiracy and the chilling potentialities of technological surveillance...