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    In Support of Wiretapping

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    A 3 page argumentative essay which supports the use of wiretapping of individuals and in the workplace. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

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    employed to guard against attacks to individual liberties, legal rights, and ethical values while the liberals argue that any wiretapping that compromises a persons privacy is illegal, immoral, and produces  no benefit to humankind. This may seem like a cut-and-dry case that favors the left, but the right is in this instance actually right because wiretapping is never utilized  unless there appears to be a danger to individual citizens or public institutions. It is a defensive rather than offensive measure that benefits the majority at the expense of  minority offenders. Wiretapping has long been a legally sanctioned tool used for investigative purpose by the federal government and law enforcement agencies (Edwardson 1999). As one official noted, "Wiretapping  has been practiced almost as long as there have been wires to tap" (Edwardson, 1999, p. 361). Criminal actions can never be overt if they are to be successful,  which means that methods designed to halt this activity must be equally covert. For example, organized crime has long been a problem in America. Had it not been  because of phone wiretapping of Mafia bosses, crimes would have gone unpunished and the American taxpayer would have been forced to incur the price of graft and the inflated cost  of certain consumer goods. Wiretapping is not a crime in and of itself; it reveals the commission of crimes. It was designed specifically to control crime through the  gathering of intelligence information to be used as supportive evidence (Edwardson, 1999). The federal government has long recognized the importance of wiretapping, and are therefore hesitant to ever impose  sanctions upon its use. The landmark decision of Olmstead v. United States is a significant case in point (Edwardson, 1999). Olmstead was a bootlegger during the Great Depression 

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