NYT article "traditional", my ass.
John K. Taber
jktaber at netcom.com
Sun Jun 5 12:28:11 PDT 1994
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> From: peb at netcom.com (Paul E. Baclace)
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> Does anyone find the following somewhat distorted: "...White House
> and Justice Department officials have argued forcefully that is a
> necessary information-age compromise between the constitutional
> right to privacy and the *traditional* powers of law enforcement
> officials." [my emphasis] If wiretapping laws were passed
> in 1968, I don't consider that *traditional*. Is Markoff speaking
> about surveillance in exceedingly general terms?
>
>
> Paul E. Baclace
> peb at netcom.com
>
Yes, I found it distorted. My question for John Markoff, if he would be
kind enough to answer, is: is "traditional" his word, or was it his
source's? If source's, was source DoJ, or White House?
IMO, police wiretapping usurped a power forbidden to it by the Fourth. To
call usurped power "traditional" is pretty smarmy.
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