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"In Greece the political system cannot tolerate independent authorities, the so-called checks and balances on power. The wiretapping affair was a traumatic experience for our democracy," Rammos told the BBC.

They do not, however, include the agency’s nefarious wiretaps of King that are scheduled for release in 2027.

Assuming they’d followed the law, arranging such surveillance would have involved a number of legal and technical steps, including securing a wiretapping warrant.

The Bush administration authorized the National Security Agency to wiretap the phone conversations of American citizens without court orders.

An investigation into the firings unearthed an even more alarming detail: the aides had been outed by a warrantless wiretap.