Justice William O. Douglas:
Supreme Court & White House Bugged

>>> From Justice William O. Douglas' dissenting opinion in Heutsche v. US, 414 U.S. 898 (1973):

We who live in the District of Columbia know that electronic surveillance is commonplace. I am indeed morally certain that the Conference Room of this Court has been 'bugged'; and President Johnson during his term in the White House asserted to me that even his phone was tapped.

 

[read Douglas' entire dissent in Heutsche v. US]

 

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