Archive Report
Archive Report
Wire Tapping and the National Security
Proposals to amend existing federal statutes with respect to wire tapping have been offered in Congress as part of a comprehensive administration bill to “strengthen the internal security of the United States.” When Sen. McCarran (D., Nev.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced the bill Jan. 18 he said it should receive “the study and consideration of every member of the Senate as well as of the Committee on the Judiciary.” He pointed out that the wire tapping proposals in particular would need careful thought “because those weapons which we afford for national protection and defense might be turned to the destruction or impairment of individual human rights.”1
The intention of the Department of Justice to seek new anti-espionage ...