How to Use wiretap in a Sentence

wiretap

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• The FBI wiretapped his phone.
• An informant told Bolles that he was paid to wiretap his home phone.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
• No, the museum is not planning to wiretap patrons to find out what’s in their cellphones.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2021
• In 2020, an F.B.I. lawyer pleaded guilty to doctoring an email that was used in preparation to ask a court to renew an order to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• The document offers a new timeline of wiretap orders in the case based on Dawkins' request for the recordings to be thrown out because an April 7 order to wiretap his phone was missing the name of the official who authorized it.
  — Chris White, The Courier-Journal, 10 Mar. 2018
• Growing more suspicious, detectives obtained a court order to wiretap his phone.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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 inspector general found more than a dozen inaccuracies and misstatements in all four applications to wiretap Page.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2020
• One of the recordings released after a fight with Congress and the courts revealed the president’s involvement in attempts to stymie an investigation into an attempt to wiretap the Democratic National Committee.
  — Chris Strohm, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2017
• There are transcripts of a conversation in at least one phone call, recorded by American intelligence agencies that wiretap foreign diplomats, which may determine Mr. Flynn’s future.
  — David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt and Peter Baker, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2017
• Now the government’s security services can wiretap and detain without judicial supervision.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019
• The FBI wiretapped his phone.
• An informant told Bolles that he was paid to wiretap his home phone.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
• No, the museum is not planning to wiretap patrons to find out what’s in their cellphones.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2021
• In 2020, an F.B.I. lawyer pleaded guilty to doctoring an email that was used in preparation to ask a court to renew an order to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• The document offers a new timeline of wiretap orders in the case based on Dawkins' request for the recordings to be thrown out because an April 7 order to wiretap his phone was missing the name of the official who authorized it.
  — Chris White, The Courier-Journal, 10 Mar. 2018
• Growing more suspicious, detectives obtained a court order to wiretap his phone.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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 inspector general found more than a dozen inaccuracies and misstatements in all four applications to wiretap Page.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2020
• One of the recordings released after a fight with Congress and the courts revealed the president’s involvement in attempts to stymie an investigation into an attempt to wiretap the Democratic National Committee.
  — Chris Strohm, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2017
• There are transcripts of a conversation in at least one phone call, recorded by American intelligence agencies that wiretap foreign diplomats, which may determine Mr. Flynn’s future.
  — David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt and Peter Baker, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2017
• Now the government’s security services can wiretap and detain without judicial supervision.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 26 Sep. 2019

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wiretap

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• Federal agents put a wiretap on his phone.
• Investigators listened to the wiretaps for clues about the suspect's whereabouts.
• The bill wouldn’t change what crimes could receive a judge’s approval for a wiretap.
  — Anita Chabria, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
• The incident was among those picked up by an FBI wiretap.
  — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• The Times reports Seaford was also a victim of a yearlong wiretap.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2023
• But over the wiretap, Jensen was hearing a different sequence of events play out.
  — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• Kellyanne Conway, at the time, said at one point that electric appliances could have been used for the wiretap, but later walked that back.
  — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, 19 May 2018
• Wilson-Cairns had access to the recording of the wiretap, which in reality was three hours long.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• Members of the group were caught on wiretap before his arrest last year threatening to kill him.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2019
• The evidence was alarming enough that, while still in the apartment, the agents received approval from a judge for a Title III wiretap.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Was Adidas caught on the federal wiretap in a case of terrible luck?
  — oregonlive.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Two long years later, in early 2016, Miller's boss came into the wiretap room and asked whether Miller wanted to join a different team.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2022
• The day before, a judge had approved an F.B.I. wiretap application that named him as a target.
  — New York Times, 27 Jan. 2022
• Their goal was to plant wiretaps and copy sensitive documents in the DNC chairman’s office.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 12 June 2019
• The ruling came nine months before the first wiretap application in the Hillsboro murder case.
  — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2021
• And if Arizona ever gets out of the wiretap business and dumps Sean Miller, the Wildcats could be an immediate addition to the fray.
  — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
• His lawyer followed up with a letter that said the team went so far as to hack foreign governments and wiretap Uber’s own employees.
  — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2021
• After this revelation, the Supreme Court sent the case back down for further review because of the wiretap issue.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021
• In the indictment, prosecutors wrote that members of the drug crew were caught on wiretaps discussing drug deals and murder plots.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 8 July 2019
• These seizures became the basis, in part, for the initiation of the wiretap investigation of Thomas by DEA agents.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Defense lawyer Kevin Sali sought to suppress wiretap evidence against his client in a Hillsboro homicide case.
  — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2021
• People questioned the ethics of an AI that pretended to be human, wiretap laws were called into question, and some even questioned if the demo was faked.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
• Any existing court orders for business records and special types of wiretaps, for example, will still be valid during the lull.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• Two of the defendants were also apparently caught on a wiretap discussing threats made to John Doe 1’s father.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
• This absence of positive evidence of bias is not about the wiretaps, the FISA surveillance, or the choice of informant or use of informants.
  — Nr Staff, National Review, 20 Dec. 2019
• Bifalco was caught on a wiretap discussing his scheme with Joseph Amato Jr., the son of an alleged Colombo captain.
  — NBC News, 3 Oct. 2019
• Spitzer, the then-governor of New York, had been caught on a federal wiretap around the same time confirming a meet-up with a call girl from a rival high-end prostitution ring.
  — Jen Kirby, Vox, 4 Aug. 2018
• Investigators tapped Clark’s phone but did not do a wiretap on Householder or Borges’ phones.
  — Jessie Balmert, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2023
• Modine and the actors who play the rich and famous recite lines from wiretap transcripts, although the filmmakers say some have been edited for length and clarity.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2021
• There were tantalizing references by Frank to any number of these murders on the various wiretaps that were ultimately done.
  — Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024

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