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Just before the trial opened, however, Judge William Matthew Byrne disclosed that a Government wiretap had happened to overhear a conversation involving one of the lawyers or consultants on the defense team. "Serious, shocking, shameful," declared Attorney Leonard Boudin. The defense demanded to know who had been overheard and what had been said...
...rules on Government wiretapping are now rather complex, but the gist of the matter is this: the Supreme Court has declared that if there has been any illegal eavesdropping involving a defendant, he must be given the details of what was overheard. It has also said that it is illegal to tap without a warrant -at least in cases that do not involve foreign intelligence...
...eavesdropping at issue last week was admittedly done without a warrant, but the Government claims that it was a "foreign" tap, that the defendants themselves had not been overheard, and that the intercepted conversation had nothing to do with the Ellsberg case. (Boudin represents the government of Chile in certain of its affairs, and some of his 15 colleagues in the trial have had associations with North Viet Nam.) Although the Supreme Court has not explicitly ruled on "foreign" taps, the prosecution claims that they are legal and therefore do not have to be disclosed. Judge Byrne himself studied...
...Bleeding Heart. Kleindienst was referring to a Supreme Court ruling three years ago which declared that individuals subjected to illegal eavesdrops have a right to transcripts of what has been overheard if they are to be prosecuted. Warrantless taps are known to have been used, for example, in investigations of the Chicago Seven and in the recent Berrigan case. Wherever violations are found, the Justice Department will have to either disclose the details of the eavesdropping or drop prosecution. Wouldn't it be only proper to inform anyone who has been illegally overheard? "Hell, no," said Kleindienst. "Our duty...
...Cloney almost went so far as to kiss the winning female. (She had the fans wondering about the reddish brown stains on the backs of her legs.) Their participation in such numbers--seven officially--made it a bit tough on us, though, because most of the spectators' remarks I overheard were about the women, and when the top one finished she got a louder round of applause than the winner and louder even than old Johnny Kelly, who at 6-4 must represent some kind of Marathon minority...