THE RIGHTS OF PRIVACY AS A CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 2, 1967
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THE RIGHTS OF PRIVACY AS A
CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE
Mr. COTTON. Yr. President, I thank
the Senator. I commend him for direct-
ing the attention of the Senate so elo-
quently and forcefully, as he always does;
to what I think many of us consider to be
the very extremely serious and far-
reaching problem of the right of privacy. `
I most heartily praise the Senator for
the splendid speech he is making.
I am glad the distinguished Senator
from Missouri [Mr. LoNGI has held the
hearings. If the Senator from Oregon
is going to mention this later, I shall not
anticipate him, but I join in commend-
ing the distinguished Senator from Mis-
souri for the splendid job he- has done
as chairman of the committee.
This is -not in any sense criticism, but
I was a little puzzled and disturbed in
reading, I think over a year ago, a release
from the Long committee-I do not know
whether it was from the chairman, the
Senator from Missouri, or not-in which
it was indicated that although question-
naires and queries had been directed to
many agencies, departments, and bu-
reaus of the Government, no such ques-
tionnaires or queries had been directed
at least at that time to what I believe was
referred to as the security community,
consisting of the Department of Defense,
the Department of State, the FBI at least
in the Department of Justice, and the
""`Some years ago, I served on the Inter-
nal Security Subcommittee of the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, during the well-
known Otepka case investigations. As I
recall, representatives of the Department
of Defense and the Department of Jus-
tice appeared before us in executive ses-
sion. To be sure, it was in executive ses-
:sion, but later, by vote of the committee,
the evidence was revealed to the public,
with one or two small exceptions in which
internal security seemed to be involved.
If we are to face up to this matter of
bugging and wiretapping, this matter of
invasions of the right of privacy, and
face up to it in man fashion, it seems to
me-even though it might be wise to
have certain proceedings in executive
session-that no department in this
Government and no agency in this Gov-
ernment and no individual in this Gov-
erment should be exempted. I do not,
say this in criticism of the committee of
the Senator from Missouri [Mr. Loxal,'
but simply to suggest that this facet of
the problem warrants very careful con-
sideration.
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