Word: wiretapping
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...wake of the discovery of an unauthorized wiretap on the Harvard Law School office telephone of Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe '62 last week, Harvard officials said they conducted a follow-up investigation of several other professors' phones...
...large, that has been the court's chief business ever since it first went into business. In Holmes' words, the Constitution has ramifications that "could not have been foreseen completely by the most gifted of its begetters." How, for example, could James Madison have foreseen a wiretap? Therefore its precise phrases, and the possible intent by which they were formed in a world dead and gone, carry far less weight than the flow of legal history and the accumulated power of precedent. Says Justice William J. Brennan Jr.: "The ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text...
Merola claims that he gained significant evidence against Donovan and the other defendants from a 1979 FBI wiretap on the telephone at Masselli's Bronx meat-packing warehouse. In 1981, after Donovan had faced confirmation by the Senate as Labor Secretary, the FBI advised the lawmakers about his alleged organized crime connections but for some reason did not mention the incriminating wiretap. Nor did the FBI reveal that it was aware, as the Senate considered Donovan's qualifications, that "possibly fraudulent schemes" to hike minority participation in the Schiavone subway work had been disclosed by the recorded conversations. The bureau...
...York FBI agents that the Schiavone company was "mobbed up" and claimed that Donovan had been "acquainted" with mobsters on both "a business and social basis." This information was relayed to FBI headquarters on Jan. 8 and Jan. 10,1981. So was one comment about Donovan from the Masselli wiretaps. On Jan. 11, all this was passed on to Fred Fielding, a Meese aide who is now White House counsel. But neither Meese, Fielding nor Webster told the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee about the derogatory information before Donovan's confirmation hearings began...
...York FBI office, Walton admitted barring his agents from talking to Merola's staff. At least one agent was disciplined for giving information to the Bronx investigators anyway. FBI headquarters last week ordered an internal investigation into the way its New York office had handled the Masselli wiretap evidence. Despite the lack of FBI assistance, Bronx Detectives Michael Geary and Lawrence Doherty finally put together the case that the feds had declined to make...