wiretap
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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
James Comey, the FBI director fired by Trump in 2017, kept a framed FBI letter requesting a wiretap on Dr. King in his office as a "reminder of the bureau's capacity to do wrong."
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2025
The officers had extraordinary records of complaints but were not under investigation until the wiretap.
From Slate ● May 9, 2024
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
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
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
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
They do not, however, include the agency’s nefarious wiretaps of King that are scheduled for release in 2027.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 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
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
The law traces back to a warrantless wiretapping program that President George W. Bush secretly created after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
In 1927, there is a case called Olmstead, which is the wiretapping case out of Washington state.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 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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