wiretap
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In fact, conspirators were overheard on a wiretap saying they “wouldn’t trust Joe” to agree to their scheme.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
The Swedish government has proposed new legislation that would allow police to wiretap children under the age of 15 in an attempt to grapple with the problem.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025
While on their tour of duty, the judges decide on FBI requests to wiretap alleged foreign spies.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2025
In another revelation damning to the government, the FBI admitted it had captured Ellsberg’s voice on wiretap surveillance years earlier — and that the transcripts had vanished.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024
In all, the wiretap in "Harvey's Hole" recorded a staggering 433,000 conversations, giving America insight into the mind and plans of its main enemy.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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There are cases where there are millions of pages and the defendant needs significant time to review millions of pages of emails, text messages, and listen to hundreds of hours of wiretaps.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2026
The legal notifications, under the terms of the 1968 Federal Wiretap Act, are sent out routinely to people whose private communications have been captured on federal wiretaps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
Nabu has been releasing new snippets of its investigation and wiretaps every day and on Tuesday it promised more would come.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
On Tuesday, an appeals chamber found there had been insufficient evidence against Uribe, that wiretaps used in the trial had been illegally conducted, and that the trial judge had committed errors of "methodology."
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
The only evidence of Nixon’s shady dealings came from bugs and wiretaps, which Johnson certainly did not wish to make public.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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The anti-corruption bureau shared part of a wiretapped conversation as part of its case and said six more people had been identified as suspects.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
The intelligence officers scribbled notes on wiretapped phone calls and typed thousands of pages of reports on opposition activities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
The anti-corruption agency then gradually released a series of videos featuring wiretapped conversations of those implicated in the scheme.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
People I knew and I, myself, were wiretapped and followed by FBI and military intelligence agents.
From Salon ● May 6, 2025
There's no psi on us but we may be wiretapped by BEB—lots of law offices are and trainees connected with them.
From The Psilent Partner by John Victor Peterson
The wiretapping scandal received international attention and scrutiny since one of the first victims, Nikos Androulakis, was an MEP.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
Assuming they’d followed the law, arranging such surveillance would have involved a number of legal and technical steps, including securing a wiretapping warrant.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2025
After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush secretly ordered a warrantless wiretapping program code-named Stellarwind.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
In 1927, there is a case called Olmstead, which is the wiretapping case out of Washington state.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2024
Saidy suggested that there was an actual plot to keep Fischer from becoming World Champion, and this involved the wiretapping of his parents’ phone.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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