What act let authorities wiretap people's phones with a warrant?
the Omnibus Crime Control Act
Who was it passed by?
Congress
Which case overturned Olmstead v. United States?
Katz v. United States
In what year?
1967
What happened in March 1971?
the residential office of an FBI agent was burglarized
by who?
a group calling itself the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI.
What did they take from there?
Numerous files
And what did they do with them?
They were distributed to a range of newspapers
What program did they have information on?
the COINTELPRO program
And it included investigations into whose lives?
the lives of ordinary citizens
How did the population react?
The country was "jolted" by the revelations
What did Hoover begin doing?
He began using wiretapping
When?
in the 1920s
For what purpose?
to arrest bootleggers
What had happened to some members of Congress?
Their phones had allegedly been tapped
What did the Communications Act of 1934 do?
outlawed non-consensual phone tapping, but allowed bugging
And it was passed after what?
the 1927 case Olmstead v. United States
Who was Hale Boggs at the time?
House Majority Leader
Where was the office of the FBI agent who was burglarized?
Media, Pennsylvania