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The verb eavesdrop is a back-formation from the noun eavesdropper ("a person who eavesdrops"), which was formed from the related noun eavesdrop ("the dripping of water from the eaves of a house; the ground on which such water falls"). [1] An eavesdropper was someone who would hang from the eave of a building so as to hear what is said within.
In 1966, the Ninth Circuit affirmed Katz's conviction, ruling that because the FBI's eavesdropping device did not physically penetrate the telephone booth's wall, no Fourth Amendment search occurred, and so the FBI did not need a warrant to place the device. [9] [7] Katz then appealed to the Supreme Court, which granted certiorari. [10] [11]
The statute allowed electronic eavesdropping for up to two months upon a standard of "a reasonable ground to believe that evidence of a crime may be thus obtained." Further two-month extensions of the original order could be granted if investigators made a showing that such surveillance would be in the public interest.
James Bamford (born September 15, 1946) is an American author, journalist and documentary producer noted for his writing about United States intelligence agencies, especially the National Security Agency (NSA). [1]
This became his campaign slogan in his successful bid for the Senate on a platform advocating the abolition of tariffs. [4] An 1849 edition of the Family Favorite and Temperance Journal extended the concept: "Four boxes govern the world:—cartridge box, ballot box, jury box, and band box". [ 1 ]
The R Document occurs during a future time in the United States when crime, especially violent crime, has become so extreme a problem that FBI Director Vernon T. Tynan is promoting an especially drastic solution: a Thirty-Fifth Article Of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States that would allow the Bill of Rights to be suspended in favor of its provisions during a national domestic ...
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The Soviet Embassy building (pictured in 2006 as the Russian Embassy) Operation Monopoly was a secret plan by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to construct a tunnel underneath the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C., to gather secret intelligence, in effect from 1977 until its public discovery in 2001.