Word: wiretaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...check from E. Howard Hunt Jr., a White House consultant. Apparently the first destruction of evidence was done by Gordon Strachan, who had served as liaison between the Nixon committee and Haldeman. Dean said that, on Haldeman's orders, Strachan had destroyed files from Haldeman's office, including "wiretap information from the D.N.C...
Dean then laid out the whole story, noting the two Liddy-Mitchell-Magruder meetings he had attended before the wiretapping and adding that he had reported these plans to Haldeman. He said that both Haldeman and Mitchell had received wiretap information. After June 17, he reported, Kalmbach had paid silence money on instructions relayed by Dean from Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Mitchell. Dean said that he had helped prepare Magruder for perjured testimony. "I concluded by saying that it is going to take continued perjury and continued support of these individuals to perpetuate the cover-up and that...
...Magruder testified that the former Attorney General and head of the Nixon re-election committee attended three meetings at which the illegal espionage plans were discussed, finally gave an unenthusiastic but firm approval to the bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters and also to plans never carried out to wiretap other Democratic offices. At the time he was considering these unlawful decisions Mitchell was the Attorney General of the U.S.-the highest lawman in the land. By the time Mitchell received the results of the Watergate burglary, in the form of photographs of Democratic documents and summaries of telephone conversations...
...number of legal federal wiretaps has widely fluctuated during the postwar era. In 1945 there were 519 wiretaps; in 1960, at the end of the Eisenhower Administration, there were 115. By 1964 the number had risen to 260, including a wiretap on the telephone of Martin Luther King, which Robert Kennedy had authorized because the FBI suspected that some of King's aides had Communist ties. Under Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the number of taps dropped to a low of 82 in 1968, and they were largely confined to foreign diplomats and their agents...
...trial of three University of Michigan students whose arrest had been partially based on wiretap information, Federal Judge Damon Keith observed that much of the Government's legal argument seemed to be based on the concept that "a dissident domestic organization is akin to an unfriendly foreign power and must be dealt with in the same fashion." On the contrary, said Keith, even the attempts of domestic organizations to attack and subvert the existing structure of Government become criminal only when they are carried out "through unlawful means, such as the invasion of the rights of others...