Senate Report No. 93-1183

Senate Report No. 93-1183: "Watergate has thus been the symbolic catalyst of a tremendous upsurge of interest in securing the right of privacy:wiretapping and bugging political opponents, breaking and entering, enemies lists, the Houston plan, national security justifications for wiretapping and burglary, misuse of information compiled by government agencies for political purposes, access to hotel, telephone and bank records; all of these show what government can do if its actions are shrouded in secrecy and its vast information resources are applied and manipulated in a punitive, selective, or political fashion."