Verb The FBI wiretapped his phone. Noun Federal agents put a wiretap on his phone. Investigators listened to the wiretaps for clues about the suspect's whereabouts.
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The claim: Jerry Zeifman fired Hillary Clinton during the Watergate scandal On June 17, 1972, five burglars were arrested at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex for attempting to wiretap office communications. Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2022 Growing more suspicious, detectives obtained a court order to wiretap his phone. Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 9 Dec. 2021 Prosecutors tried to hold Facebook in contempt after the company refused to help investigators wiretap its Messenger app, but a judge ruled against them. Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021 The surveillance court in December 2019 also blasted the FBI for misleading judges by cherry-picking facts presented them in requesting to wiretap former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in its Russian investigation.Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2021 No, the museum is not planning to wiretap patrons to find out what’s in their cellphones.Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2021 Cohen-Watnick was previously involved in attempts to back Trump’s false claims that his White House predecessor, Barack Obama, sought to wiretap Trump. Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Dec. 2020 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications seeking the authority to wiretap onetime Trump campaign associate Carter Page. Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 11 Dec. 2020 Priebus asked, referring to a top-secret warrant to wiretap an American citizen suspected of being a spy for a foreign government.NBC news, 13 Feb. 2017
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Smith was heard on a wiretap in 2019 describing shooting at a rival drug dealer and he was arrested on Dec. 23, 2019, federal prosecutors said in the statement.Hartford Courant, 27 Aug. 2022 This is the single largest seizure of drugs and arrests made in the history of Polk County during an undercover wiretap investigation. Chuck Johnston, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022 The day after Sankara’s death, French agents removed sensitive wiretap recordings from the offices of the local intelligence service, the trial heard.New York Times, 9 Mar. 2022 Investigators launched a wiretap investigation in February 2022. Gregory Yee, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2022 However, on Monday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis walked back any knowledge of the wiretap and fired the head of the National Intelligence Service, Panagiotis Kontoleon, and his Chief of Staff Grigoris Dimitriadis.Fox News, 10 Aug. 2022 But they have been largely reconstructed and made available by the historian David Garrow, through clever Freedom of Information Act requests for wiretap transcripts of King’s associates. Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022 All the phones were taken apart and inspected after the June arrests, an FBI memo said, and no wiretap was found on Oliver’s phone. Manuel Roig-franzia, Washington Post, 14 June 2022 Those conversations gave new insight into how fervent Bolles had been in wanting the Funks prosecuted for the wiretap. Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022 See More