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"It began during the presidential campaign in June of 1972, when five burglars, carrying wiretapping and photo equipment, were caught in the act of breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate apartment complex of Washington, D.C. One of the five, James McCord, Jr., worked for the Nixon campaign; he was "security" officer for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP). Another of the five had an address book in which was listed the name of E. Howard Hunt, and Hunt's address was listed as the White House." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) "The frenzy of Nixon's actions against dissidents—plans for burglaries, wiretapping, mail openings?suggests the importance of the antiwar movement in the minds of national leaders. One sign that the ideas of the antiwar movement had taken hold in the American public was that juries became more reluctant to convict antiwar protesters, and local judges too were treating them differently. In Washington, by 1971, judges were dismissing charges against demonstrators in cases where two years before they almost certainly would have been sent to jail. The antiwar groups who had raided draft boards?" - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) "Watergate had made both the FBI and the CIA look bad—breaking the laws they were sworn to uphold, cooperating with Nixon in his burglary jobs and illegal wiretapping. In 1975, congressional committees in the House and Senate began investigations of the FBI and CIA. The CIA inquiry disclosed that the CIA had gone beyond its original mission of gathering intelligence and was conducting secret operations of all kinds." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

"The requirement of a warrant, the Court concluded, "is justified in a free society to protect constitutional values" and would reassure the public "that indiscriminate wiretapping and bugging of law-abiding citizens cannot occur." All of this changed in 2001 with passage of the Patriot Act only 45 days after the 9-11 attacks. Congress authorized government agencies to search any individual's financial and medical records, Internet searches, and travel patterns without a warrant, nor do they have to show cause." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Common sense, for example, dictates that airline passengers submit themselves and their baggage to some examination before boarding. wiretapping and other forms of electronic surveillance have presented modern challenges for the Constitution. President Richard Nixon's attorney general contended that the government had "inherent power" to maintain electronic surveillance of alleged political subversives and need not apply to the courts for a proper warrant. The Supreme Court responded by asserting that neither the Constitution nor any statute justified such an extravagant doctrine." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"The administration of President Richard Nixon ordered wiretapping of the telephones of government officials and newspaper reporters to uncover sources of leaked information about the secret bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. This illegal wiretapping eventually led to the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation. write-in candidate A candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot (usually because he or she has not secured the nomination of a political party) but whose name must be written on the ballot by voters." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.)

"I don't think there was any more or less wiretapping" during the Nixon administration than in previous years, the FBI's intelligence division chief James Adams said. However, "what was unusual about this [was] that it involved wiretaps on the NSC staff, on individuals that were part of the White House family." Administration officials had previously ordered wiretaps to spy on potentially criminal union leaders and organized mobsters. A wiretapping program set against one's own staff was, according to another top FBI official, Thomas Smith, "unprecedented." - Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional? (Get the book.)

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