Problem: Hoover began using wiretapping in the 1920s during Prohibition to arrest bootleggers. In the 1927 case Olmstead v. United States, in which a bootlegger was caught through telephone tapping, the United States Supreme Court ruled that FBI wiretaps did not violate the Fourth Amendment as unlawful search and seizure, as long as the FBI did not break into a person's home to complete the tapping. After Prohibition's repeal, Congress passed the Communications Act of 1934, which outlawed non-consensual phone tapping, but allowed bugging. In the 1939 case Nardone v. United States, the court ruled that due to the 1934 law, evidence the FBI obtained by phone tapping was inadmissible in court. After the 1967 case Katz v. United States overturned the 1927 case that had allowed bugging, Congress passed the Omnibus Crime Control Act, allowing public authorities to tap telephones during investigations as long as they obtain a warrant beforehand.

In March 1971, the residential office of an FBI agent in Media, Pennsylvania was burglarized by a group calling itself the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI. Numerous files were taken and distributed to a range of newspapers, including The Harvard Crimson. The files detailed the FBI's extensive COINTELPRO program, which included investigations into lives of ordinary citizensincluding a black student group at a Pennsylvania military college and the daughter of Congressman Henry Reuss of Wisconsin. The country was "jolted" by the revelations, which included assassinations of political activists, and the actions were denounced by members of Congress, including House Majority Leader Hale Boggs. The phones of some members of Congress, including Boggs, had allegedly been tapped.
1. What act let authorities wiretap people's phones with a warrant?
2. Who was it passed by?
3. Which case overturned Olmstead v. United States?
4. In what year?
5. What happened in March 1971?
6. by who?
7. What did they take from there?
8. And what did they do with them?
9. What program did they have information on?
10. And it included investigations into whose lives?
11. How did the population react?
12. What did Hoover begin doing?
13. When?
14. For what purpose?
15. What had happened to some members of Congress?
16. What did the Communications Act of 1934 do?
17. And it was passed after what?
18. Who was Hale Boggs at the time?
19. Where was the office of the FBI agent who was burglarized?
Answer: 1. the Omnibus Crime Control Act
2. Congress
3. Katz v. United States
4. 1967
5. the residential office of an FBI agent was burglarized
6. a group calling itself the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI.
7. Numerous files
8. They were distributed to a range of newspapers
9. the COINTELPRO program
10. the lives of ordinary citizens
11. The country was "jolted" by the revelations
12. He began using wiretapping
13. in the 1920s
14. to arrest bootleggers
15. Their phones had allegedly been tapped
16. outlawed non-consensual phone tapping, but allowed bugging
17. the 1927 case Olmstead v. United States
18. House Majority Leader
19. Media, Pennsylvania

Problem: Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) -- A South African white supremacist group has retracted its statement vowing to avenge the killing of its leader, Eugene Terreblanche, a spokesman for the group said Monday.

"The statement was made by an emotional member of our organization," said Pieter Steyn, a spokesman for the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, also called the Afrikaner Resistance Movement or AWB.

"The person has been reprimanded. We want a homeland where we can govern ourselves, and violence is not going to do our cause any good."

Terreblanche was killed Saturday following an apparent dispute over wages with workers on his farm, according to South African police.

Two of his farm workers ages 21 and 16 are scheduled to appear in court Tuesday after turning themselves in, police said.

Police said the 69-year-old was bludgeoned and stabbed to death with clubs and a machete in an attack at his farm near the town of Ventersdorp in South Africa's North West Province.

Steyn told CNN he is pleased with the work of the South African police, who said there would be a heavy police presence at Tuesday's court appearance.

The AWB has blamed the killing on the singing of a controversial apartheid-era song, "Shoot the Farmer."

The ruling African National Congress party's youth leader, Julius Malema, had sung the song in recent weeks until a court ruling barred him from doing so.

Steyn called on South African President Jacob Zuma to act to ease tensions. "He needs to address Julius Malema urgently," Steyn said. "We are finding it difficult to keep our members calm under the current circumstances. If farm murders continue, we cannot guarantee that our members will continue refraining from retaliating."
1. what does Julius Malema do?
2. of?
3. what did the court tell him to do?
4. what?
5. which was previously what?
6. who was killed?
7. what group did he run?
8. called?
9. when did he die?
10. how many people turned themselves in?
11. when will they be in court?
12. which town is the farm near?
Answer: 1. youth leader
2. African National Congress party
3. Stop singing.
4. "Shoot the Farmer."
5. A controversial apartheid-era song.
6. Eugene Terreblanche.
7. A South African white supremacist group.
8. Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
9. Saturday.
10. Two.
11. Tuesday.
12. Ventersdorp.

Problem: National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States.

NPR produces and distributes news and cultural programming. Individual public radio stations are not required to broadcast all NPR programs that are produced. Most public radio stations broadcast a mixture of NPR programs, content from rival providers American Public Media, Public Radio International, Public Radio Exchange and WNYC Studios and locally produced programs. NPR's flagships are two drive time news broadcasts, "Morning Edition" and the afternoon "All Things Considered"; both are carried by most NPR member stations, and are two of the most popular radio programs in the country.

NPR manages the Public Radio Satellite System, which distributes NPR programs and other programming from independent producers and networks such as American Public Media and Public Radio International. Its content is also available on-demand via the web, mobile, and podcasts.

The organization's legal name is "National Public Radio" and its trademarked brand is "NPR"; it is known by both names. In June 2010, the organization announced that it was "making a conscious effort to consistently refer to ourselves as NPR on-air and online" because NPR is the common name for the organization and the tag line "This ... is NPR" has been used by its radio hosts for many years. However, "National Public Radio" remains the legal name of the group, as it has been for more than 45 years.
1. What type of programming is NPR known for?
2. What country is it from?
3. What does NPR stand for?
4. Does a radio station play every program made by NPR?
5. What is one of the most popular NPR shows?
6. And another?
7. Are there other somewhat similar or rival providers of radio programing?
8. What is one?
9. And another?
10. How is NPR funded?
11. How many radio stations use NPR's syndicated programing?
12. Could a station play NPR material as well as that from a rival organization?
13. Is such a mixture common?
14. What type of program content is found in "Morning Edition" ?
15. What about "All Things Considered"?
16. Can you get NPR content on the web?
17. As a podcast?
18. How long as the name "National Public Radio" been used?
19. What did this organization begin to refer to itself as in 2010?
Answer:
1. news and cultural
2. America
3. National Public Radio
4. no
5. Morning Edition
6. All Things Considered
7. yes
8. American Public Media
9. Public Radio International
10. privately and publicl
11. 900
12. yes
13. yes
14. drive time news
15. drive time news
16. yes
17. yes
18. more than 45 years
19. NPR