wiretap
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The notifications are routine in wiretap investigations once surveillance ends, but the letters set off a wave of panic across California’s political power structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
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
An investigation into the firings unearthed an even more alarming detail: the aides had been outed by a warrantless wiretap.
From Salon ● May 27, 2025
In March Gestalt sent her the statuette, she said, assuring her that it contained a wiretap and a tracker.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 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
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
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
These mainly concerned the use of wiretaps of conversations involving "lawyers, journalists, bishops and even members of parliament".
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
They do not, however, include the agency’s nefarious wiretaps of King that are scheduled for release in 2027.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2025
At last, technicians reached the Soviet cables, carefully exposing the inner wires and grafting on the wiretaps.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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
In a wiretapped call, Wertz said she was “taxing” smoke shops in San Pedro on Nania’s behalf, the affidavit said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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
According to the memo, dated April 26, Los Angeles police brought a case to prosecutors in January, requesting that they charge Vasquez and Leon with illegally recording a conversation and wiretapping.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2024
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, or FISA, normally requires a warrant for national-security wiretapping on American soil.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 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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