Word: wiretaps
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Harassing phone calls to David A. Guberman '71, who has charged one student and testified against four others for participation in the disruption of the March 26 Counter Teach-In, have been traced by wiretap to the phone of a Radcliffe junior...
...wiretap, conducted by the telephone company at Guberman's request after he had been repeatedly harassed over a two-week period, disclosed that eight calls had been made on the defendant's phone to Guberman between...
...defendant says that Guberman agreed to try to withdraw his charges in the Cambridge courts if she asked the phone company to turn over the transcript of the wiretap to the CRR. Guberman maintains that he made this agreement only on the condition that "the necessary evidence" come before the CRR. "The necessary evidence" could be a plea of guilty, the name of the caller if it was someone else, or the wiretap transcript...
After years of confusion over the legalities of electronic eavesdropping, Congress attempted to set rules in the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1968. Law-enforcement agencies were permitted to wiretap in ordinary criminal cases, provided they first obtained a court-approved warrant. Under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, such warrants require "probable cause"-proof that officials are probing with specific evidence of a crime, not just trying to trap possible wrongdoers. The 1968 law, though, did not limit the President's power "to obtain foreign intelligence information deemed essential to the security of the United States...
...Michigan). More important, if the decision is upheld by the Supreme Court, the Justice Department will have to get warrants in order to bug suspected domestic subversives. Since it apparently has not done so up until now, it would not be able to prosecute on the basis of any wiretap evidence it may now have...