Word: wiretappings
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Internal Security: To strengthen the Internal Security Act, the Administration will propose that the Justice Department be authorized to 1) use wiretap evidence in security cases, and 2) force witnesses to testify about the acts of others in security cases by granting immunity from self-incrimination (TIME...
Last month, in a move hardly calculated to endear him to HICOG, Clark accepted the chairmanship of a bar-association committee investigating wiretap allegations against the Conant administration. He also attacked a new law, signed by Conant, requiring special HICOG permission before German officials can be called before U.S. courts...
Seeking a revision in the section of the Federal Communications Act of 1934 which the Supreme Court has interpreted as prohibiting the use of wiretap evidence in Federal courts, Justice Department and FBI officials are hoping to gain the tool which will permit them to prosecute cases in which they lack other types of evidence. If Congress legalizes wiretap evidence, the Justice Department will undoubtedly try to avenge its failure to prove a case against Judith Coplon or to get the grand jury to indict Harry Dexter White...
Congress should not rely upon the Supreme Court to decide whether legalization of wiretap evidence is a good measure, as Congress has done so often in the past. Under any Supreme Court, discretion is the function of Congress, and discretion should show that once wire-tapping becomes legal evidence, the days of George Orwell's telescreen machines cannot lay far in the future...
...line and Stoker began to record some lively conversations. One was by another sergeant on the vice squad named Elmer Jackson, who called the city hall from Brenda's atelier. Another time Sergeant Jackson called to apologize to Brenda for a sheriffs' raid. Stoker reported his wiretap findings to a confidential aide of Chief of Police C. B. Horrall, then raided Brenda's place...