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wiretap

[ US /ˈwaɪɝˌtæp/ ]
[ UK /wˈa‍ɪ‍ətæp/ ]
VERB
  1. tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
    The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy
    Is this hotel room bugged?
NOUN
  1. the act of tapping a telephone or telegraph line to get information

How To Use wiretap In A Sentence

  • Wiretapped recordings obtained pursuant to Title III are ordinarily exempt from disclosure under Exemption 3.
  • The wiretap warrant, of course, did not extend to McCabe, so his incriminating comments were deemed inadmissible in court. THE KILL CLAUSE
  • Chris, these people have such short memories that I think it only extends partially into the Bush era, which is rosily remembered as a utopia of liberty even though illegal wiretapping and members of the cabinet cashing in on the war on terror were a hallmark of the Bush years. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • However, knowingly or not, the Brazilian people still refer to the old process - the "wiretap" - as it still exists. Home
  • The bureau can obtain authority for wiretaps to investigate gun and explosives violations but not threats against its own agents.
  • Any law enforcement agent who conducted a wiretap or private search would thereby always be presumptively guilty of a crime, and would have to cross his fingers and take his chances that prosecutors or jurors would ignore or obviate the law in his particular case. The Five Techniques
  • The key problem, say officials, was reliance on wiretaps and surveillance rather than human Intelligence - i.e. spies.
  • BRAND: I think you would want to press the procedures that were used, see whether the wiretaps have been legitimately authorized, whether all the material that was wiretapped, including some things that we lawyers call exculpatory -- that is, things that tend to prove your innocence -- are not on the tapes or that should be on the tapes and available to you. CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2008
  • Ashcroft's immediate response to the attacks was to sink into a dark Orwellian morass of secret detentions, warrantless wiretaps, and eavesdropping on lawyers.
  • Railroads, slavery, banks, women, free markets, privacy, health care, wiretapping: not there.
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