wiretap
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This followed uproar in the EU after Spain's Ministry of the Interior awarded Chinese tech giant Huawei a €12.3m contract to store and manage sensitive judicial wiretap data last year.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Silverman also said police had conducted a wiretap operation in the case, but did not disclose the nature of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
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
Unnamed White House advisers who spoke with the Guardian said they raised the issue with aides close to Vice President JD Vance, only to find that the wiretap story was bunk.
From Salon ● May 27, 2025
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
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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
With genetic data unable to distinguish between them, investigators relied on phone records, surveillance footage, wiretaps and efforts to corroborate their whereabouts and movements, according to Le Parisien.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 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
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
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
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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
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
It violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which requires warrants for national security wiretapping on domestic soil.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 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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