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.

Answer the following questions:
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?
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