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wiretap

verb as in bug

Weak match

verb as in eavesdrop

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On Hoover’s desk sat a notebook containing all the outstanding wiretaps the Bureau then had running.

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Theoharis obtained tens of thousands of documents related to illegal wiretaps, mail openings and break-ins.

There don’t seem to be any secret wiretaps or defectors who are telling all.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s guide to recording police notes that in places with one-party-consent wiretap laws—38 US states and the District of Columbia—you can freely record audio.

The government got what it needed from a wiretap of defendant Basaaly Saeed Moalin's phone, not from the mass collection of metadata.

After a wiretap at the home of a Civella relative produced devastating evidence of hidden ownership, the FBI moved in.

Tipped off by the wiretap, federal agents in another incident pulled over a locked freezer truck, loaded with 26 people.

Helpfully, he's fled to Yemen, where that nation's intelligence service can freely wiretap him.

After all, to get a FISA judge to grant a warrant, you at least need to know the name of the person you want to wiretap.

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On this page you'll find 142 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wiretap, such as: care, control, examination, inspection, scrutiny, and supervision.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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