Word: wiretappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following complaints of possible phone interference, an official at the New England Telephone Company said yesterday there was no evidence of a wiretap on the home phone of a close associate of Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe, whose office phone was found to have been tapped early last month...
...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...
Steiner said that Harvard officials informedthe FBI and the Massachusetts Attorney General'soffice about the wiretap. The FBI is conducting aninvestigation, Steiner said...
...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...