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[wahyuhr-tap] / ˈwaɪərˌtæp /








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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

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

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

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

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

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

Whoever had wiretapped it would wonder why I didn't use it.

From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

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

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

Federal law is focused on preventing wiretapping, mandating that at least one party to the call knows that it’s being recorded.

From Slate Oct. 31, 2024

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

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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