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Fourth Amendment: Like a Bird on a Wire
By Michael Tigar, Esq.
January 2024
This excerpt from the author’s 2021 memoirs, Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer’s Life in the Battle for Change, traces the rise of illegal U.S. government wiretapping in the 1960s and 1970s. The author details the methods used (like FBI agents disguised as telephone repairmen installing bugs in targeted phones) and the various legal battles against unconstitutional practices, all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is the first of a two-part article.
Our Inalienable Rights Can Never Be Recovered
By Monroe H. Freedman, Esq.
April 2014
With the revelations released by Edward Snowden of mass surveillance of telephone calls and emails of Americans, foreign leaders and millions of people throughout the world, President Obama has proposed “reforms” of the NSA’s data gathering, while maintaining the government’s right to orchestrate such encroachment into individual and organizational privacy. Freedman, a leading expert on legal ethics, says it is too late to put the genie back in the bottle.