Military Surveillance: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, on S. 2318

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The bill provides that military personnel shall not be used to conduct surveillance of the political activities of civilians or civilian organizations except in those limited situations where the military actually has a need for such information to further a lawful objective.

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Page 85 - Inviolability of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.
Page 340 - NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, acting under...
Page 211 - Welfare; the Secretary of Defense; the Secretary of the Treasury; the Secretary of Commerce...
Page 137 - Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than two years or both.
Page 182 - Acquisition of Information Concerning Persons and Organizations not Affiliated With the Department of Defense," December 8, 1975 (d) Executive Order 11491, October 29, 1969 A.
Page 86 - Nevertheless, after declaring that the "security of one's privacy against arbitrary intrusion by the police" is "implicit in 'the concept of ordered liberty' and as such enforceable against the States through the Due Process Clause,
Page 136 - Whenever the President considers it necessary to use the militia or the armed forces under this chapter, he shall, by proclamation, immediately order the insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes within a limited time.
Page 331 - NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, including Chapter 15 of Title 10 of the United States Code, particularly Sections 332, 333 and 334 thereof, do command all persons engaged in such obstruction of justice to cease and desist therefrom, and to disperse forthwith.
Page 259 - That (a) whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information to be obtained is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation...
Page 57 - Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, Riots, Civil and Criminal Disorders, 90th Cong., 1st Sess., Part I, insert facing p.

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