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wiretap

[wahyuhr-tap] / ˈwaɪərˌtæp /








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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

While on their tour of duty, the judges decide on FBI requests to wiretap alleged foreign spies.

From Salon Mar. 13, 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

Beginning that very month, Harvey's wiretap commenced recording thousands of classified conversations among Soviet and East German military officials.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

According to an annual government report, the number of wiretaps obtained by DHS — often to investigate drug trafficking — plummeted to 23 in 2025, from 133 the previous year.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

You typically have to have either wiretaps or recording in the rooms, or what appears to be the case here is a witness who is cooperating.

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

Within hours, at Kissinger’s request, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began placing wiretaps on the phones of Kissinger’s assistants.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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

Four people have been found guilty and given jail terms by a Greek court after a wiretapping scandal shook the country in 2022.

From BBC Feb. 26, 2026

The highly publicized indictment against Williamson was sprinkled with references to her phone calls and text messages, indicating that federal investigators were likely relying on wiretapping.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 19, 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

In 2021, he was acquitted on charges of wiretapping opponents and journalists.

From New York Times Feb. 10, 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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