The president was really referring to overall "surveillance" when he said "wiretap," not an actual wiretap.
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You can't wiretap a lawyer, you certainly can't wiretap his client who's not involved in the investigation.
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But a wiretap of someone living in Trump's apartment building is not the same as a wiretap of Trump himself.
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The wiretap, granted by a federal judge in the Southern District of Texas, was granted as part of a narcotics investigation and became the federal wiretap with the most intercepts in 2018, according to the government's annual wiretap report.
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Evidence of an Obama wiretap -- using the narrow definition of a wiretap -- hasn't been found by the House or Senate intelligence committees.
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Though a wiretap itself is an intrusive investigative tool, F.B.I. officials obtained a wiretap on Mr. Page after he had left the Trump campaign.
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And if they did, then where in the Obama administration was the push to do the wiretap -- and let&aposs be clear about a wiretap.
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If police want to conduct a wiretap, they have to go to a judge and get a wiretap order, which is like a super-warrant.
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"The president cannot order a wiretap, the president does not order a wiretap, and the president did not order a wiretap," Denis McDonoughDenis Richard McDonough2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care The Hill's Morning Report — Trump retreats on census citizenship question Democratic candidates should counter Trump's foreign policy MORE said on CBS "This Morning" when asked if the president can order a wiretap.
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There is no reason to assume that Trump meant solely the act of an actual wiretap when he put wiretap in quotations as opposed to surveillance.
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Photo: Eric Risberg (AP)A single court-authorized wiretap order resulted in authorities in the Southern District of Texas scooping up more than 9.2 million communications—becoming "the federal wiretap with the most intercepts in 2018," TechCrunch reported on Saturday, citing the federal government's annual wiretap report.
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Everyone said, well, a wiretap is an actual tap on a wire as opposed to them was obvious meeting of people of his generation which is that wiretap refers a surveillance.
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Moreover, it would allow countries to wiretap on U.S. soil for the first time, including conversations that foreign targets may have with people in the U.S., without complying with Wiretap Act requirements.
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On the criminal side, the government must present a judge with probable cause that a wiretap-eligible offense has occurred — or is occurring — and that a wiretap will uncover the necessary evidence.
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Once a wiretap is in place, Justice Department lawyers charged with seeking its renewal begin nagging F.B.I. agents to identify new facts gleaned from the wiretap that could help justify continuing it.
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A court would have to approve any request to wiretap.
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And they take that wiretap order to a phone company.
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Can a president authorize a wiretap, as Trump has claimed?
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At one time, the president thought it was a wiretap.
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Mr. Comey could presumably resolve the question about the wiretap.
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Prosecutors also have emails and other electronic evidence obtained through search warrants, wiretap interceptions and subpoenas; surveillance photographs; legal process, including wiretap orders and search warrant affidavits; and other records obtained through grand jury subpoenas.
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Because of his quotation marks, apparently -- he put "wiretap" in quotes.
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The two cases represent the largest wiretap cases seen in years.
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Even the possibility of a real-time wiretap raises important questions.
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Buttigieg removed the chief, citing a federal investigation into the wiretap.
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Will Trump address his wiretap claims, as he said he would?
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US government loses bid to force Facebook to wiretap Messenger calls
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The agents had filed their application for the wiretap on Oct.
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In this puzzle it's the latter, and the answer is WIRETAP.
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Neither the London operation nor the secret wiretap seemed to have yielded fruitful information for the F.B.I. But critics of the F.B.I., including Mr. Trump, have pointed to the wiretap and London operation as evidence of spying.
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Barack Obama did not wiretap Trump Tower ahead of the presidential election.
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"Wiretap covers a lot of different things," Trump told Carlson on Wednesday.
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Birth of a conspiracy theory: How Trump's wiretap claim got started Sen.
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Pelosi accused Trump of using "authoritarian" tactics in making the wiretap claim.
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Jane Harman, who was overheard on a government wiretap discussing the case.
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Instead they wiretap everybody and send spy rings throughout the whole campaign.
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Graham on what happens if FBI doesn't comply w/ wiretap request pic.twitter.
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The phone call trick, which Mabbitt called a "glorified wiretap," also worked.
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Rosenstein signed off on the FBI surveillance renewal application to wiretap Page.
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He starts to destroy a wiretap that was hidden under his shirt.
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It suppressed the entire wiretap, which did not contain anything incriminating anyway.
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Boillat placed Mikhael under surveillance, including a wiretap on her cell phone.
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This is particularly true on the issue of the Carter Page wiretap.
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Trump made the wiretap allegation without presenting evidence on Twitter over the weekend.
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Are you going to inform everyone you meet that you're packing a wiretap?
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The question is it, is it surveillance, is it a wiretap or whatever?
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Facebook served more than 800 wiretap orders last year in the US alone.
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Creamer's firm recently sued Project Veritas alleging the sting violated federal wiretap law.
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ACLU asks court to release a secret order forcing Facebook to wiretap Messenger
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His wiretap of Chuck's meeting with Krakow fails to yield the juiciest details.
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Mr. Trump's wiretap claim is particularly likely to appeal to that partisan dynamic.
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Trump said Nunes's announcement made him feel "somewhat" vindicated about the wiretap allegation.
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The call was captured on a routine wiretap of diplomats' calls, officials said.
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Right now, the rules Congress set 50 years ago to regulate wiretap orders prohibit what's called "judge shopping"; police in New York seeking to wiretap, for example, can't turn to a judge in Texas who's more willing to grant their request.
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In essence, the DEA realized it can't wiretap drug merchants like it used to.
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Spanish investigators told Reuters the wiretap transcripts were accurate and the suspects correctly identified.
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The abuses were related to wiretap applications for former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
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Another outstanding issue, Hostetler wrote, is whether the recordings violate the Federal Wiretap Act.
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The new supervisors will be able to interrogate, search, wiretap, detain and punish suspects.
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Now, for sure, it is a felony for anyone to "illegally" wiretap another person.
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I was a fan of Jonathan's long-running, hard-to-define radio show, WireTap.
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Obama ordering a wiretap on his phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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It is highly unusual for documents related to FISA wiretap applications to be released.
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Prosecutors were now allowed to wiretap anyone suspected of having connections to organized crime.
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In one case, F.B.I. agents even repeated errors in applications submitted for wiretap renewals.
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In one case, F.B.I. agents even repeated errors in applications submitted for wiretap renewals.
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Nor were his minions embarrassed when they falsely blamed the British for the wiretap.
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It then used those emails to obtain an individualized warrant to wiretap Mr. Mohamud.
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The call was captured on a routine wiretap of diplomats' calls, the officials said.
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If the Justice Department says there was no wiretap, it undercuts the president's accusation.
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" - Comey "Let me be clear: we know there was not a wiretap on Trump Tower.
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GCHQ: Wiretap claims are 'nonsense' GCHQ said the claim was "nonsense" and should be ignored.
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He declined to discuss the case, including the events as described in the wiretap transcripts.
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Second, the alleged wiretap reinforces concerns about how Yahoo treats all of its user data.
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Did any reasoning to actually wiretap Trump Tower come from what was in the dossier?
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WATTERS: Hillary paid for Russian dirt on Trump and use it to get a wiretap.
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Nunes reiterates that there was no "physical" wiretap, but repeats the possibility of incidental collection.
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Rogers said only one who gains from Trump's wiretap accusations is Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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WhatsApp is also rumored to have been a target of a number of wiretap orders.
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A pen register is much easier to get and much less intrusive than a wiretap.
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The British government uses a different standard for authorizing a wiretap or gaining stored data.
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For decades, the only way to wiretap a telephone involved the use of copper lines.
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Mr. Page was not affiliated with the campaign when the F.B.I. sought the secret wiretap.
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Their charges of "massive" politically-motivated snooping center on the FBI's wiretap of Carter Page.
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A federal judge authorized a wiretap to be placed in the Mayor John Street's office.
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The FBI cited Steele's dossier, among other factors, in the warrant application to wiretap Page.
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The North Carolina Republican did not rule out including the wiretap accusation in his committee's investigation.
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Of course, if there was a wiretap the story would probably be even worse for Trump.
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According to multiple reports, wiretap intelligence indicated that he had discussed sanctions with the Russian Ambassador.
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Despite the law's clarity, wiretap orders do go beyond their geographic jurisdictions sometimes, according to experts.
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The report also said that number of wiretaps using encryption went up, rendering the wiretap ineffective.
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He said, without proof, that Obama had ordered a wiretap of his phones at Trump Tower.
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Then we find out that it was used to get a wiretap warrant for Carter Page.
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"For a lot of people, this wasn't about the nuances of the Wiretap Act," he said.
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Citing intelligence reports given to House leaders, Ryan said, "No such wiretap existed," according to CNN.
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The raw intelligence that Nunes said he reviewed showed no evidence of a wiretap on Trump.
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Until then, all we have is the feds' tenuous claims, and the Wiretap Report's dwindling numbers.
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It alleges the company violated the Federal Wiretap Act, among other privacy and consumer protection laws.
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However, Boykins argued it was a standard part of department procedure to wiretap certain phone lines.
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Obama would never wiretap another political leader, we've been told, and would never target political opposition.
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On the wiretap, Tomic had promised to get revenge on anyone who followed him too closely.
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"Wiretap" has often been used as a generality for surveillance, particularly among those of Trump's generation.
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I provided a "helper" by including the entry WIRETAP in the lower right of the puzzle.
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"I take care of my people," Mr. Reichberg boasted over the phone, according to wiretap evidence.
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Later, she admitted to trying to wiretap Mr. Pirro's yacht to catch him in an affair.
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The FBI must initiate a request for a wiretap warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
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Dr. Martin Luther King culled from a wiretap of his hotel room near the Miami airport.
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"We see no evidence of that," said Speaker Paul Ryan, when asked about the wiretap story.
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If there was a wiretap order targeting Mr. Trump or his associates, what would that mean?
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When criminal wiretap orders end, their targets are usually notified that their privacy has been invaded.
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Belgium, it said, should have requested the wiretap from Luxembourg, home country of Microsoft's European operations.
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How did he respond to questions about the existence of a warrant that ordered the wiretap?
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Unlike a wiretap, which NBC originally reported, it does not record the contents of the conversation.
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NBC News issued a correction to its wiretap story shortly thereafter, reportitng that federal investigators had monitored Cohen's phone activity using a pen register, which allows them to see who has called in or out, but that they had not listened in on phone conversations via wiretap.
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Thursday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said that "no such wiretap existed," citing intelligence reports to House leaders.
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Later, Yang discussed the seizure with a number of associates, according to wiretap transcripts of the calls.
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The police wiretap transcripts also document the alleged use of violent threats by Gao and his subordinates.
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Wiretap orders are also subject to time limitations, renewal schedules, and careful tracking by investigators and prosecutors.
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And they were all doing the same thing, they were all pushing a funny dossier to wiretap.
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Listening to Mexican narcos on a wiretap sounds like a good way to work up an appetite.
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"Wiretap covers a lot of different things," he told Fox host Tucker Carlson in a televised interview.
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Under federal law, the phone company is not allowed to disclose information absent from that wiretap order.
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The committee has scheduled a March 20 hearing and Trump's wiretap allegation is part of that probe.
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Meanwhile, as we fulminated and opinionated on Trump's wiretap claim, we lost focus on the Russia story.
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As a part of that investigation, the FBI obtains a FISA warrant to wiretap Manafort, per CNN.
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The president used the word 'wiretap' in quotes to mean broad surveillance and other activities during that.
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"Wiretap covers a lot of different things," Trump said in an interview with Fox News's Tucker Carlson.
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For example, the police can work directly with phone companies, serving warrants and Title III wiretap orders.
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On the afternoon of June 29, detectives monitoring a wiretap recorded a conversation about buying a firearm.
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The administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson had the F.B.I. wiretap the Rev.
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It does not allege that he played any role in the Russia investigation or the wiretap application.
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The House Intelligence Committee has asked the Justice Department to release evidence of a wiretap by Monday.
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The Hanssen report called for Justice Department lawyers to more closely oversee F.B.I. agents preparing wiretap applications.
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The first case, in 2014, involved a wiretap of "a violent organization" that Rosenstein declined to identify.
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Mr. Horowitz recommended that the F.B.I. review the performance of every person involved in the wiretap effort.
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Horowitz concluded the FBI was careless and unprofessional in pursuing the Page wiretap, according to the Times.
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Still, Republicans look ready to seize on evidence of misconduct in some parts of the Page wiretap.
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The F.B.I. did cite the dossier to some extent to apply for the wiretap on Mr. Page.
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The email Mr. Clinesmith handled was a factor during the wiretap renewal process, according to the people.
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Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, concluded that there'd been no wiretap.
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Obama, through a spokesman, has denied Trump's wiretap claim, as has former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
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If the High Court makes wiretap orders easier to get, even more incidental communications could be swept up.
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These family networks reported to a suspected crime boss in Qingtian County, Ming Wenxue, according to wiretap transcripts.
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Trump went on to compare Obama to Richard Nixon, likening these baseless wiretap claims to the Watergate scandal.
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The story said nothing about a wiretap of Trump Tower — much less of Obama "ordering" one against Trump.
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During an interview on Fox News, Trump vaguely explained where he got his Obama wiretap claims: a Jan.
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A federal judge could only approve a warrant to wiretap Trump's phones under very limited circumstances, Vladeck said.
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Meanwhile, the memo is silent about other potential pieces of intelligence that supported a wiretap on Carter Page.
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Was the information in the relevant hands of the people involved with the wiretap application at the time?
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US government investigators have lost a case to force Facebook to wiretap calls made over its Messenger app.
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So they're going to wiretap the lawyer, his client, and his client the president of the United States?
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It is more intrusive than even a Title III criminal wiretap of a drug dealer or mob boss.
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" Coons said he believes no president should ever "directly order an intercept or wiretap on an American citizen.
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At the news conference, he acknowledged that the Justice Department was reviewing the wiretap investigation involving the lawyer.
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Wiretap fever, Sharyl Attkisson is pointing out how seventh Trump associates were caught up in this surveillance web.
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It's not known whether any of the conversations between the two men were picked up on the wiretap.
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They said that a federal judge approved a wiretap, but that investigators have been unable to move forward.
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Background reading: • Here's how to get a FISA wiretap to spy on Americans, and why that matters now.
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An earlier version of this article misstated when a federal judge approved a secret wiretap for Carter Page.
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The bill would seek to solve some of the problems an inspector general report found with wiretap applications.
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The authorities had been on to them for weeks, secretly collecting their conversations through a court-ordered wiretap.
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The fallout continues from an inspector general's findings that the bureau botched wiretap applications in the Russia investigation.
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Spitzer resigned in 2008 after he was caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a prostitute.
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The changes include curbing the agency's freedom to wiretap suspects and creating a committee to oversee the agency.
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The report did find multiple "significant errors or omissions" in the FBI's applications to wiretap Mr Page, however.
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Specifically, Horowitz found discrepancies and bureaucratic mistakes in how the FBI applied for a warrant seeking the wiretap.
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Context: These highly classified transcripts were obtained via FBI wiretap on Ambassador Kislyak — and that wiretap has not been acknowledged by prosecutors with the Justice Department, who failed to comply with the judge's order because they said they did not need to release transcripts that aren't vital to Flynn's prosecution.
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Mr. Horowitz concluded that the F.B.I. was careless and unprofessional in pursuing the Page wiretap, and he referred his findings in one instance to prosecutors for potential criminal charges over the alteration of a document in 2017 by a front-line lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, 37, in connection with the wiretap application.
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"Wiretap covers a lot of different things," Trump told Fox News' Tucker Carlson in an interview aired Wednesday night.
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Justice Department provides wiretap documents to Congress Key to his birtherism claims were constant promises of the big reveal.
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Making the nightmares of Amazon Echo owners everywhere come true, hackers turned one of those devices into a wiretap.
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Blaring vuvuzelas and shouting "don't wiretap me bro," many said they are frustrated at the division throughout the country.
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Little is known about the case, except that 149 individuals involved in the case were targeted by the wiretap.
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It's easy to imagine a forward-looking wiretap order demanding that WhatsApp perform this attack on a particular user.
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If phone companies receive a wiretap order, then they're required to give police technical assistance in tapping the phone.
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In an extreme step, the district attorney's office began to wiretap Detective Oliva, two former law enforcement officials said.
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Where the San Bernardino case rested on an exotic All Writs Act argument, the Wiretap Act is relatively straightforward.
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"We know there was not a wiretap on Trump Tower," he said in an opening statement before Monday's hearing.
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"We know there was not a wiretap on Trump Tower," he said during the opening statement of Monday's hearing.
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For one thing, intercepting signals used by a drone might be considered an illegal "wiretap", according to FCC regulations.
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To be clear: There's zero evidence that this occurred, and any wiretap would not be approved by the president.
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"Just like in the movies," an undercover agent exclaimed on a wiretap after pulling the cash from the commode.
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"The president used the word 'wiretap' in quotes to mean broadly surveillance and other activities during that," Spicer said.
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In order to collect evidence through a wiretap, the FBI must show a federal judge that probable cause exists.
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He keeps a copy on his desk of then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's approval to wiretap the Rev.
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"The president used the word wiretap in quotes to mean broadly surveillance and other activities during that," he said.
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The FBI applied four times to wiretap Page after he became a Trump campaign adviser starting in July 22019.
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Once the Page wiretap was finally approved in October 85033, with help from the "dossier," that wasn't the end.
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" He also told Woodruff that, "Us lawyers have talked about it, we don't believe [NBC's wiretap story is] true.
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Comey also pointed out that there's no way for a president to unilaterally authorize a wiretap of any individual.
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When they sought court permission to wiretap him, they kept quiet about facts that cast doubts on their theory.
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The FBI obtained a FISA warrant on Page in October of 2016 and renewed the wiretap three subsequent times.
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Civil libertarians for years have called the surveillance court a rubber stamp because it only rarely rejects wiretap applications.
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Mr. Horowitz took no position on whether a judge would have approved the wiretap without the misstatements and omissions.
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"You don't know who I voted for"CNN's @ChrisCuomo spars w/ former Trump official @Scaramucci over wiretap tweetshttps://t.
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Trump's unsubstantiated claim that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower had the smell of Bannon's gunpowder.
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But the Justice Department watchdog report debunked several other Trump-backed conspiracy theories, in addition to the wiretap claims.
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Or, it could explain that there was sufficient probable cause to authorize a wiretap even without the Steele dossier.
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" Coons noted he doesn't think any president should ever "directly order an intercept or wiretap of an American citizen.
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The inspector general concluded that these instances represented "serious performance failures" by those with responsibility over these wiretap applications.
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The same month, The New York Times revealed that WhatsApp had received a wiretap order from the US Justice Department.
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The documents pertain to the October 2016 application to the FISA court to wiretap Page, which led to later renewals.
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James Clapper, the director of national intelligence under Obama, has said he knew of no warrant to wiretap Trump Tower.
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The release included 412 pages of documentation, including the original October 2016 request to wiretap Page and multiple renewal applications.
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In fact, Podobnyy was caught on a wiretap discussing Page: He writes to me in Russian [to] practice the language.
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Among other things, the inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, is scrutinizing the application for a warrant to wiretap Mr. Page.
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But Reuters reported last year that investigators failed in a courtroom effort to force Facebook to wiretap Messenger voice calls.
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"We, ah… not kidnapped a guy, but we conned him to come with us," Hunter said on a DEA wiretap.
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But Reuters reported in September that investigators failed in a courtroom effort to force Facebook to wiretap Messenger voice calls.
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If the prosecutors' application to wiretap Facebook Messenger voice calls is not included, Broughton said he would ask for it.
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The case, filed under sealed, aims to break the encryption on the messaging app to wiretap conversations on suspected criminals.
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The wiretap order later expired, and police have not made any arrests in connection with the case, according to TechCrunch.
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Even with a judge's wiretap order, WhatsApp's encryption prevents law enforcement from reading or intercepting messages sent on its platform.
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Now on to Trump's allegation that former President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the presidential campaign.
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The wiretap motion does not state how exactly they arrived at that figure, only that it came from three bookies.
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Adam Schiff, D-California, shared a rare moment of bipartisanship and said they found the Trump Tower wiretap claim baseless.
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In the end, the libel and other charges against Father Farrell were dropped after the wiretap testimony proved flawed. Sgt.
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"Either President Trump has inappropriately released classified information and was himself the subject of a court-ordered wiretap," Coons said.
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Congressional intelligence leaders say they have seen no evidence of such a wiretap, and experts call the scenario far-fetched.
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Top Republicans in the House and Senate intelligence committees have also said that there's no evidence Obama ordered a wiretap.
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Privacy advocates have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging these devices violate the Federal Wiretap Act.
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CNN reported this week that the FBI twice has obtained court permission, through so-called FISA warrants, to wiretap Manafort.
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"Wiretap covers a lot of different things," Trump said in an interview with Fox News's Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night.
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Even if -- and that's a real "if" -- conversations between the two men were picked up in the wiretap on Manafort.
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The agents tried several tactics, including getting a "full-content" wiretap that intercepted every byte that left the group's computers.
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The wiretap application included a Yahoo News article from September 2016 that discussed the investigation into Mr. Page's Russian ties.
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And Republicans conducted their own inquiries when they controlled the House, including publicizing details of the F.B.I.'s wiretap use.
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The following month, the F.B.I. obtained a court-approved warrant to wiretap Mr. Page, who had contacts with Russian intelligence.
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Page could have been considered an easy target for a wiretap because he had worked in Russia for Merrill Lynch.
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Justice Department officials originally received authorization to wiretap Mr. Page from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in October 2016.
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Senate reports on newly declassified intelligence show that the wiretap was approved in October 2016, not the summer of 2016.
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The Nunes memo claims that the DOJ misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in applying for a wiretap on Page.
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The case was prosecuted with a wiretap of Mr. Frese's phone, perhaps the most intrusive tool in criminal investigators' arsenal.
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For example, defense lawyers get to scour criminal wiretap applications for problems, creating an incentive for investigators to be scrupulous.
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"If without [authorization], the President should explain what sort of wiretap it was and how he knows this," Sasse said.
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Three years after the Philadelphia wiretap, as reported in the New York Times, the FBI made public corruption a priority.
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Former officials pointed to longstanding laws and procedures intended to ensure that presidents cannot wiretap a rival for political purposes.
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But our guess is that Mr. Comey will answer the question about the wiretap, saying that it does not exist.
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Horowitz also uncovered significant problems and mistakes with the court-approved surveillance of Page, which included wiretap and electronic surveillance.
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They commanded armies of armed agents, had the ability to bug and wiretap almost anyone, and had virtually unlimited budgets.
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Mr. Trump's allies have complained about how the Justice Department used information from the Steele dossier in the wiretap applications.
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Hunter was caught on a wiretap discussing the killings, but he has not been charged in connection with that case.
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Last year, Wired reported on one hacker who installed malware onto an Echo and turned it into an always-on wiretap.
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Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy posted a column Sunday saying he spoke with the President twice on Saturday about the wiretap story.
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Then he signs off -- or before that, he signs off on a FISA renewal so that they could wiretap Carter Page.
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Here's a timeline of how the Trump administration has been dealing with the fallout of the president's pre-golf wiretap allegations.
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The lawyer for one suspect already has challenged the police interpretation of wiretap recordings, according to a submission to the court.
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There are a few head-scratching problems with this accusation: First, no president can order a wiretap of a private citizen.
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So instead of pursuing Krakow, as his morals would believe, Connerty gets dirt on Chuck and finally scores a wiretap permit.
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It allows the Korean National Intelligence Service to collect the public's personal information and wiretap their phones if they're suspected terrorists.
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" Rogers said WH allegations that the UK helped wiretap Trump were "utterly ridiculous," adding it "clearly frustrates an ally of ours.
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Did the -- did the idea to wiretap Trump Tower come from anything from the dossier which now we know was fabricated?
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Nunes said on "Fox News Sunday" that he was not aware of any warrant that would have allowed such a wiretap.
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President Donald Trump claimed earlier this month that former President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on him before the November election.
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One matter judges weigh in wiretap matters is how much of a burden it would be for the company to help.
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President George W. Bush authorized the NSA to secretly wiretap Americans' communications shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
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He also said there was no proof of Trump's assertion that President Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower.
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Over the summer, defense attorneys from the case, including Hanson's, filed a motion to suppress wiretap evidence obtained by the FBI.
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The scrutiny over Rosenstein's wiretap remarks has renewed Republican calls for a second investigation into alleged misconduct at the Justice Department.
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At the federal level, the Wiretap Act makes it illegal to deliberately intercept and record other people's phone calls or emails.
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The FBI actually first applied to wiretap Page in July 2016 while he was very much active in the Trump campaign.
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But until Trail Mix, such a tactic had never been tried using software as part of a wiretap, the documents show.
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They feared he would live-tweet his favorite TV shows, setting off national and geopolitical firestorms (remember the Obama wiretap classic?).
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The DOJ used a wiretap to record Aries' calls with Renzi, and the FBI also recorded Renzi's calls with his lawyers.
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Wade was heard on a wiretap saying he made a strong — read: lucrative — offer to a prized recruit and his family.
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Mr. Podobny was picked up by the authorities on a wiretap calling Mr. Page an "idiot" to his Russian intelligence colleagues.
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The F.B.I. also obtained a wiretap order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser.
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The show, created by Gimlet Media, is hosted by Jonathan Goldstein, formerly of "This American Life" and "WireTap" on CBC Radio.
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In 2015, U.S. intelligence sources privately told me that rogue government officials sometimes used this latitude to reverse-engineer wiretap applications.
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It sets out a conspiracy theory about a 2016 national-security wiretap on the once-obscure Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
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Devin Nunes, told Fox News Sunday that he hadn't seen any evidence of a warrant to wiretap the Trump campaign headquarters.
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Democrats are sure to press him on any ongoing investigations and Trump's wiretap claims when the hearing starts at 10 a.m.
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During the campaign, low-level F.B.I. officials had asked for permission to wiretap Carter Page, a former Trump foreign-policy adviser.
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Republicans focused on his withering portrait of F.B.I. dysfunction: serious errors, omissions, and misleading statements he found in court wiretap filings.
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Graham said he was "very worried" about Trump's claim that Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower before the November election.
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Mr. Trump, however, suggested in an interview that he would be vindicated: "Wiretap covers a lot of different things," he said.
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"Its possible" President Trump's voice was picked up in a wiretap of Paul Manafort, says former spy chief Clapper https://t.
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Evidently, F.B.I. counterintelligence agents were alarmed when they read the wiretap transcripts of Mr. Flynn's Christmastime chats with the Russian ambassador.
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FBI, NSA, and DOJ have no evidence to support Trump's wiretap allegations FBI, NSA, and DOJ have no evidence to support Trump's wiretap allegations The heads of multiple U.S. government agencies just stated definitively that they've found no evidence to back up Donald Trump's claims that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential campaign.
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In the meantime, if you don't want to let a company wiretap your kid's bedroom, maybe buy them a less invasive toy.
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Comey also said there's no evidence to back up Trump's allegations of Obama wiretapping, adding that "no president" could order a wiretap.
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That wiretap fell under the purview of Mr. Spota's top anticorruption prosecutor, Christopher McPartland, who is a close friend of Mr. Burke's.
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Comey went on to say that there is "no information" that supports Trump's claim and that "no president could" order a wiretap.
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One matter judges weigh in approving wiretap requests is how much of a burden it would be for the company to help.
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"A wiretap captured some mobsters commenting that this business was more profitable than drug trafficking," Finance Police Colonel Alessandro Cavalli told reporters.
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In this instance, the government is "seeking a wiretap of ongoing voice conversations by one person on Facebook Messenger," according to Reuters.
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Trump has never come forward with even a scintilla of evidence that what he claims about Obama ordered the wiretap are true.
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On March 4, the president without giving evidence accused his Democratic predecessor, President Barack Obama, of ordering a wiretap of Trump Tower.
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One member of the Genovese family was even heard on an F.B.I. wiretap discussing how Mr. Orlando had become a contract killer.
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WhatsApp was rumored to have resisted a similar wiretap order earlier this year, although the details of the case are still unknown.
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He did note that this does not change his belief that there is no evidence a wiretap was ordered on Trump Tower.
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Neither would former President Barack Obama have been able to wiretap candidate Trump, as the President suggested recently without offering any evidence.
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In an interview with The Hill, Giuliani argued that a wiretap on Cohen would represent a flagrant abuse of attorney-client privilege.
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" Committee chair Devin Nunes had already debunked this one yesterday on Fox News Sunday: "Was there a physical wiretap of Trump Tower?
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While most GOP leaders are doing their best to move past Trump's wiretap remark, other Republicans say they can't be ignored. Sen.
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The wiretap application did cite claims from the dossier, according to previously top-secret documents released by the Trump administration on Saturday.
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The New York Times has filed a motion asking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to unseal all materials related to the wiretap.
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The wiretap was renewed three times, including once by Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who supervises the special counsel investigation.
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It claimed law enforcement officials omitted relevant information in their application for a warrant to wiretap the former campaign adviser, Carter Page.
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That case is focused on whether the system violates statutory limits on surveillance, like the Wiretap Act, rather than the Fourth Amendment.
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The FISA court approved an initial 90-day wiretap targeting Mr. Page in October 2016 and issued three renewal orders in 2017.
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"Wiretap covers a lot of different things," Trump said in an interview with Fox News's Tucker Carlson set to air Wednesday night.
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Prior to the Federal Wiretap Act in 1968, the Supreme Court held that the interception of telephone calls violated the Fourth Amendment.
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The convo was captured by a wiretap in a van, and Tekashi testified he didn't know he and Shotti were being recorded.
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The F.B.I.'s intelligence wiretap powers are at a crossroads after a damning report about the surveillance of a former Trump adviser.
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One practical consequence of Mr. Steele's reporting was to support the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act application for a wiretap on Mr. Page.
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Despite the attention it has received, the wiretap was but a small piece of a sprawling F.B.I. investigation into Russian election interference.
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In one instance, Horowitz referred his findings in connection with the wiretap application to prosecutors for potential criminal charges, the Times reports.
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Mr. Trump's supporters, who are already more likely to believe that basic narrative, may be more likely to accept his wiretap claims.
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Nor is there a case before the FISA court that might require it to rule on whether the wiretap application was misleading.
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To be sure, in any ruling, the FISA court would be limited in describing the wiretap application because of national security considerations.
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Either way, at least we will know definitively whether the FISA court thought it was misled by the Carter Page wiretap application.
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The material on the China deal, reported here for the first time, includes confidential testimony, wiretap transcripts, bank records and other documents.
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Why are F.B.I officials "said to be worried [about] the notion of a court-approved wiretap," in regard to the Russia investigation?
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The FBI obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on Page in October of 85033 and renewed the wiretap three subsequent times.
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There are notes from Nixon's 1962 California gubernatorial campaign, in which he and his aides discuss the need to wiretap political foes.
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And, according to the Democrats, the wiretap produced "valuable intelligence" for the F.B.I. that was used to justify its renewal three times.
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When Twitter came up, Trump didn't back off of the unsubstantiated wiretap allegations he made against Barack Obama on the microblogging platform.
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And former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told NBC News he "can deny"there was a FISA court order to wiretap Trump.
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The word "wiretap" is a specific term that can't be used to describe surveillance more broadly, Schiff told CNN's Erin Burnett Wednesday night.
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That raises questions under the Wiretap Act and Pen Trap Act for use, as well as spending any money on research or testing.
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We also checked out various hacking tools used by testers to clone security badges, bypass server room locks, and wiretap fiber-optic cables.
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It's less intrusive than a wiretap, according to former US Attorney Preet Bharara, since investigators can't listen in on a phone call's content.
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And if the federal government gets its way in front of the Supreme Court this week, obtaining a wiretap could become even easier.
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READ: How cops hack into your cell phone without a warrant Congress passed the Wiretap Act in 1968, a time without cell phones.
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In the case of the Saturday morning tweetstorm this weekend, Trump accused Obama of ordering a wiretap of his phones during the campaign.
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His "wiretap" tweets have so captured our collective focus and time that it may be easy to forget just how damaging they were.
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There was no wiretap, the network corrected; it was, instead, a pen register — which only provides a log of calls, not their content.
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Related: The FBI Is at War With Apple Because It Couldn't Change Wiretap Law Meanwhile, the legal battle is destined to drag out.
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Under that accord, a special prosecutor was appointed to investigate the wiretap revelations and Gruevski agreed to an early election, expected in June.
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There's a provision in the wiretapping law that says it's actually a criminal offence for police to reveal the existence of a wiretap.
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The subcommittee won before the Court of Appeals, thereby establishing the right of Congress to obtain wiretap records despite an executive privilege claim.
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According to Reuters, prosecutors are looking to listen in on all Messenger voice calls from the target, similar to a conventional phone wiretap.
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Instead of a locally encrypted hard drive, prosecutors want a wiretap on all the Messenger voice calls to and from a single user.
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And former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told NBC News he "can deny" there was a FISA court order to wiretap Trump.
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The spokesman's statement did not address the possibility that a wiretap of the Trump campaign could have been sought by the Justice Department.
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The Sun Chronicle reports that 48-year-old Darin McNeil pleaded not guilty to wiretapping and attempting to commit a sexual surveillance wiretap.
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The White House has promised to stop repeating a claim that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters helped Obama wiretap Trump Tower, per the BBC.
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A court could order WhatsApp — which is owned by Facebook — to comply with wiretap orders, but it would face technical and legal challenges.
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The New York Times reported Sunday that a transcript of Flynn's remarks, based on a U.S. wiretap of Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, exists.
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President Trump also claimed last weekend, without offering any evidence, that Obama ordered officials to wiretap Trump Tower during last year's presidential race.
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Schiff also asked Comey whether Obama could have unilaterally ordered a wiretap on Trump in violation of court orders, as Trump has suggested.
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Then in March, the government made moves on WhatsApp for circumventing wiretap orders and since then the proceedings have been shrouded in secrecy.
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Recently, a wiretap of a phone call between Mr. Erdogan and Erdogan Demiroren, the owner of the Milliyet newspaper, was posted on YouTube.
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In March, she tried to appoint Lula to her cabinet; a released wiretap recording suggests she was trying to shield him from charges.
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The memo, which may be released soon, suggests that he was wrong to extend a wiretap on Carter Page, a Trump campaign adviser.
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Nojeim explained that government investigators have two routes to obtaining a wiretap in the U.S. — one for criminal probes, one for intelligence gathering.
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The F.B.I. said that it received court permission to wiretap Mr. Frese's cellphone and intercept some of his text messages and phone calls.
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It reportedly finds that the FBI didn't act in a politically motivated manner when seeking to wiretap then-Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
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It reportedly concludes that the FBI was careless when trying to wiretap Page and accuses a lawyer of altering a document in 2017.
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In 103, Dr. Kanevsky was indicted on state racketeering charges, the result of a lengthy wiretap investigation into phony accidents and medical claims.
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Steele had worked with the FBI before, and the bureau included some of his information in an October 2016 application to wiretap Page.
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Erdoğan's son Bilal also came under suspicion, after a wiretap captured what was alleged to be a conversation between him and his father.
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Stuart Evans, the top Justice Department official overseeing the wiretap applications, told Mr. Horowitz that he was not aware of the inconsistencies, either.
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Alleged efforts to wiretap President Trump's phone lines during his campaign could have been conducted as part of a "rogue intel operation," Rep.
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Mr. Horowitz will also fault the F.B.I. for not telling the judges who approved the wiretap applications about potential flaws with the dossier.
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The FISA court first approved the wiretap in October 2016, about a month after Mr. Page had stepped down from the Trump campaign.
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It would have been difficult for federal agents, working within the law, to obtain a wiretap order to target Mr. Trump's phone conversations.
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But if that doesn't happen soon, the DOJ, whose integrity has been challenged, should ask the FISA court to review the wiretap application.
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Caplan said his concern was that his daughter would be "finished" if she got caught, according to an excerpt of a wiretap transcript.
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The evidence includes: Wiretap and consensual recordings, financial records from banks and other institutions and academic records from both high schools and colleges.
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On Sunday, Mr. Maggi said investigators had misunderstood one wiretap to mean cardboard was being put into meat when it referred to packaging.
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FBI director James Comey has rejected President Trump's sensational claims that President Obama ordered a wiretap of his phones during last year's election.
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But Trump has previously alleged via Twitter, without providing evidence, that former President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of his phones during the campaign.
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A few months ago, Wired reported that a hacker successfully installed malware on an Amazon Echo and turned it into an always-on wiretap.
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He restated that there was not a wiretap on Trump Tower, but did not rule out other kinds of surveillance against the Trump campaign.
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Some argue that Trump calling for the investigation actually shines a light on the possibility that there was enough evidence to warrant a wiretap.
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The company received between 0-249 national security requests for the duration, and didn't process any wiretap or foreign government requests for the duration.
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The Justice Department has since determined that warrants to wiretap Page were unlawfully obtained and excluded information showing that Page was a CIA source.
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" Obama's former foreign policy advisor, Ben Rhodes, was willing to go on the record and tweeted at Trump, "No President can order a wiretap.
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Comey declined to answer a question as he went into the House meeting about whether there was ever a legal wiretap at Trump Tower.
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The birth of a conspiracy theory: How President Trump's wiretap claim got started Supreme Court sends key transgender bathroom case back to lower court.
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This year, we saw the government approach Facebook to force the company to rewrite its Messenger app to allow federal agents to wiretap calls.
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In fact, last year he placed a wiretap on Luis' phone lines – using as his cover a memo from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
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Kellyanne Conway, at the time, said at one point that electric appliances could have been used for the wiretap, but later walked that back.
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Page left the campaign a month before the FBI got its wiretap order; by the time Rosenstein took office the campaign was over. pic.twitter.
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The comment further raises the question of why Flynn would lie about discussing sanctions if he recalled the discussion and knew of the wiretap.
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Mukasey said if there were a wiretap on Trump Tower, it would mean that there was suspicion someone had been acting as Russian agent.
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With L.S.U., Wade was suspended in March after a report surfaced that he discussed an improper payment to a recruit on a federal wiretap.
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Buttigieg sought to penalize Boykins by using the excuse that he was pressured by federal prosecutors to fire Boykins for violating the Wiretap Act.
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The Wiretap Act says that as long as one party knows that a call is being recorded, then it is no longer considered wiretapping.
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"It might be that you've got an agent who's sitting on a wiretap and he finds out that they're threatening a witness," she said.
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This was justified through the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) which required telecom operators to support wiretap capabilities in their products.
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Trump also deflected criticism about a White House official who on Thursday repeated a charge that a British intelligence agency helped Obama wiretap Trump.
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And an Arizona assistant coach was heard on a wiretap suggesting Miller had agreed to pay a star center, Deandre Ayton, $10,000 a month.
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He supervised it at every step and was involved in the decision to seek a wiretap on Carter Page, a former Trump foreign adviser.
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Though she did not know it at the time, Ms. Sánchez had been a target of a sprawling wiretap investigation by American federal agents.
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F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors also obtained approval from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to wiretap Mr. Page after he left the campaign.
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" When Mr. Gallman returned from meeting Mr. Cherry, Mr. Scarpa was caught on the wiretap exclaiming, "So this guy is willing to do whatever?
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Jordan dismissed the idea of a clean reauthorization bill, citing the Page wiretap and taking aim at the GOP leaders who supported the idea.
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That means when evidence from those sources goes into a wiretap application, fewer law enforcement officials know details that might help evaluate their credibility.
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In a rare public filing, the bureau said it would extend wiretap changes to other tools for collecting data on suspected spies and terrorists.
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The mayor removed the chief in 2012, he has long said, after learning that the F.B.I. was investigating the chief for violating wiretap laws.
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But Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, said after the hearing that Mr. Trump stood by his wiretap allegations despite Mr. Comey's testimony.
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A Breitbart News report, for example, breezed past Mr. Comey's debunking of the wiretap as "already known," then focused on leaks to the press.
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"How did /pol/ spin the whole Trump under FBI investigation and the FBI and DoJ saying that Obama didn't wiretap Trump," one user asks.
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The former bureau director acknowledged "significant mistakes" in warrants to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser, days after an inspector general's report was released.
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Tahiri's name was mentioned in a wiretap overheard by Italy's anti-mafia police in connection with kick-backs, cannabis trafficking and smuggling Kalashnikov rifles.
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For four months in 2018, authorities in Texas collected more than 9.2 million messages under a single court-authorized wiretap order, newly released figures show.
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Given the privacy-invasive nature of real-time listening capabilities, the bar to obtain a court-ordered wiretap is far higher than other surveillance measures.
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The suit, filed in an Illinois federal court, accused Standard Innovation of violating the Federal Wiretap Act, along with other privacy and consumer protection statutes.
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"The reason I don't know is that these tape recordings were made in a way that may have violated the Federal Wiretap Act," he replied.
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Remember, US presidents from FDR to Nixon routinely directed the FBI and other intelligence agencies to slander and wiretap and even burglarize their political foes.
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While we ask questions about this supposed wiretap, we should also ask the more pressing question: What article is Donald Trump going to read next?
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"There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time, as a candidate or against his campaign," he said.
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The wiretap intercepted countless conversations in which the detective spoke with F.B.I. agents and prosecutors about some of the investigations he had been pulled from.
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He called for the "immediate" declassification of certain documents related to the FISA wiretap on Carter Page and the FBI's use of the Steele dossier.
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But the number of wiretap orders — which allow police to listen in to calls in real time — went down by half on the previous year.
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Both FBI director James Comey, as well as Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, argued last year that the Wiretap Report is not a good indicator.
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FBI director James Comey asked the Department of Justice to disavow Trump's claims that Obama ordered a wiretap, according to a New York Times report.
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To sum up: The current President of the United States flat-out lied about the then-sitting president issuing a wiretap of his campaign headquarters.
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He also wants a halt to the data collection, which he said violates the federal Wiretap Act and Illinois laws against eavesdropping and consumer fraud.
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According to court documents, Mr. Mueller authorized the local United States attorney's office to apply for an order allowing the wiretap of Mr. Lester's office.
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Those actions include how officials opened the Trump-Russia investigation, called Crossfire Hurricane, and obtained a secret warrant to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser.
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The bureau sought the wiretap on Mr. Page because of his previous contacts with a Russian intelligence officer in 2013 and material in the dossier.
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Still, the wiretap order enabled F.B.I. agents to obtain and read older emails in Mr. Page's account, including when he was working with the campaign.
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Back in the less partisan days of 1969, then-President Richard Nixon ordered the FBI to wiretap five journalists whose reporting the administration didn't like.
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They have also said it might have provided the basis for key investigative actions, including a secret court-approved wiretap of a Trump campaign aide.
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So they would look for easier marks surrounding that person, wiretap them, and capture the true, intended target through the one-hop-two-hop policy.
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Unable to legitimately spy on Donald Trump himself, did intel officials search for people around him to wiretap, knowing they could sweep up Trump indirectly?
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One analysis of the government's one-hop-two-hop practice concluded that intel agencies can exploit one legal wiretap to secretly access 85033,000 people's phones.
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"I go for sixty-forty," he was heard saying on a wiretap, referring to his split of the women's earnings without stating which was his.
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WH spokesperson on Trump wiretap claim: "He's made very clear what he believes, and he's asking we get down to the bottom of this." pic.twitter.
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The Times article does use the word "wiretap," but it does not support Mr. Trump's assertion that Mr. Obama ordered phones at Trump Tower wiretapped.
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McGlashan, whose conversations were recorded by wiretap, is also accused of working with the college prep company on a so-called "side door" admission plot.
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They have argued that it was inappropriate to use partisan opposition research in a sensitive application to wiretap a person associated with a presidential campaign.
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Spicer tells reporters the president "stands by" the claim and suggests British intelligence helped Obama wiretap Trump, repeating a claim from a Fox News analyst.
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Moreover, the report found that there was only one member of the Trump campaign whom law enforcement officials requested court approval to wiretap: Carter Page.
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Republicans contend the FBI relied excessively on the dossier during its investigation and to obtain a secret wiretap application on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
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The memo also asserts that in applications to renew the wiretap, the F.B.I. provided the court with information from independent sources corroborating Mr. Steele's findings.
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Mr. Trump's allies have sought to reduce the inquiry to the problematic Steele dossier and to portray the Page wiretap application as its central feature.
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According to a New York State wiretap quoted by the DoJ in their press release, Mastrovincenzo boasted to Zinzi about the severity of the beating.
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Later that month, Judge Sérgio Moro — the jurist who had spearheaded the investigation into Petrobras — ordered the release of a wiretap recording from Lula's phone.
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The White House has so far refused to provide any evidence, and numerous former officials have denied the existence of any warrant to wiretap Trump Tower.
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The so-called Steele Dossier contains salacious, but unverified, allegations against Trump and was also a major component used to justify subsequent renewals of the wiretap.
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In his appearance before the House Intelligence Committee on Monday, Rogers said asking GCHQ to wiretap Trump would be at odds with the Five Eyes agreement.
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According to wiretap transcripts, Liu talked with associates about gambling all night with hundreds of thousands of euros on the table and boasted about his winnings.
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But during an appearance on CNN's Erin Burnett "Outfront," Santorum warned that Trump's insistence on standing by his wiretap allegations poses a problem for the President.
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The second reason is more subtle, and seems to hinge on there having been no wiretap at all at Trump Tower — even a court-approved one.
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"There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign," he said.
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Some of that snooping was done under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows investigators to wiretap someone's phones and read their messages with court approval.
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"Inside the bank, I am the lowest-level employee," said Wang Jing, who declined to discuss the wiretap transcript of her phone conversation with Xu Kai.
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Wang Jing said she was letting ICBC's clients know they would have to freeze all transfers to China until after the inspection, according to wiretap transcripts.
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Most online calling services send data directly from client to client for simple performance reasons, which has given the services a troubled history with wiretap requests.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers will testify and are expected to field questions on Trump's wiretap claim.
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"There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign," Clapper said.
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Trump's White famously cited Napolitano in March when he accused President Obama of using a British intelligence service to wiretap Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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Trump on Saturday alleged, without offering supporting evidence, that Obama ordered a wiretap of the phones at Trump's campaign headquarters in Trump Tower in New York.
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Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary under Obama, said the president did not have the authority to unilaterally order a wiretap of a U.S. citizen.
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And that includes that Hillary Clinton paid for the dossier which was used to get a [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] warrant to wiretap an American citizen.
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The news organization changed its original piece to reflect that "three senior U.S. officials" were disputing the idea that a wiretap was placed on Cohen's phones.
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Page is also the subject of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant issued against him to wiretap his conversations over concerns raised by his Russian ties.
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The materials released by the DOJ include an October 2016 application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to wiretap Page as well as several renewal applications.
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With little fanfare, top House investigators said they'd simply fold Trump's new wiretap claims into their ongoing probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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He is heard on a wiretap last year saying he'd been doing it for nine years, so that would be 2008, two years before he retired.
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It also claims the officials abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process by citing dubious information in their application for a warrant to wiretap Mr. Page.
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But it is widely believed that Mr. Flynn was overheard on the wiretap because American intelligence agencies routinely listen in on the calls of foreign ambassadors.
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And over the summer, a hacker showed that an Echo could effectively be turned into a wiretap, though that required physical contact with the device itself.
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Mr. Paz would listen, hang up and call one of his brothels, said a law enforcement official who has listened to wiretap recordings of the conversations.
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The next day was his fateful tweet about President Barack Obama conducting a wiretap of Trump Tower during the campaign, an allegation that was widely debunked.
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The CFAA criminalizes unauthorized access to a computer or computer network, and the Wiretap Act prohibits use of a tool to intercept calls, texts or emails.
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The inspector general has also raised concerns that the F.B.I. inflated Mr. Steele's value as an informant in order to obtain the wiretap on Mr. Page.
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Still, it is undeniable that the agents and supervisors compiling materials for the Page wiretap application were under far more pressure than in routine counterintelligence investigations.
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There is no confirmed evidence that the F.B.I. obtained a court warrant to wiretap the Trump Organization or was capturing communications directly from the Trump Organization.
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Some of his vocal critics believe that the wiretap gambit is a deliberate attempt to create a distraction from the many challenges facing his young presidency.
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Later in the hearing, Horowitz rejected the Trump-backed conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama personally ordered the FBI to wiretap Trump and investigate his campaign.
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We now know that Manafort, who by the way has a residence in Trump Tower, was indeed subject to a federal wiretap, according to media reports.
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Then Trump himself walked back the claim that there'd been a wiretap, pointing out that "wires tapped" was in quotes in the tweet, whatever that means.
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In 2002, for example, it won permission, then secret, from the intelligence court permitting the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the N.S.A. to share raw FISA wiretap information.
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A federal judge could only approve a warrant to wiretap Trump's phones under very limited circumstances, said CNN contributor and University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck.
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So, I certainly don't think wiretap is broad enough to cover what is really a baseless accusation, a complete fabrication by the President of The United States.
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A Republican on the House Intelligence Committee says while there wasn`t a physical wiretap of Trump Tower, it`s possible other types of surveillance were used.
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As had been rumored, the memo details supposedly improper actions by law enforcement officials in seeking a warrant to wiretap Carter Page, one of Trump's campaign advisors.
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James Clapper, who was the director of national intelligence under Obama, denied the claim, saying there was "no such wiretap activity" by the intelligence agencies he oversaw.
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This alleged activity could break a host of laws, including the Wiretap Act, the Illinois Eavesdropping Statute, and the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practice Act.
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No matter why Trump believed it, by publicly asserting that he had been the subject of a federal wiretap, he painted himself into something of a corner.
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Every year, judges issue thousands of wiretap orders, a type of warrant that allows law enforcement to listen in to phone calls and even read text messages.
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If the justices rule to definitively allow this type of evidence, cops could turn to any judge, even ones known to grant overbroad requests, for a wiretap.
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He has represented the government in appeals involving search warrants and seizures, motions to suppress wiretap evidence, mail fraud, wire fraud, structuring financial transactions and money laundering.
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Clapper was responding to questions surrounding President Trump's accusation — without evidence — that former President Barack Obama personally ordered wiretap surveillance of Trump Tower before the November election.
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And as recently as a couple of weeks ago, Nunes publicly disputed Trump's (now infamous) assertion that his predecessor, Barack Obama, ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower.
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In the Thursday interview, Giuliani questioned a then-breaking NBC report that Cohen, Trump's longtime personal lawyer who is under criminal investigation, was subject to a wiretap.
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They're generally considered to be a form of wiretaps, thus requiring a specific wiretap order, which is similar to a warrant but slightly more difficult to get.
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Clicking on each country takes you to a country specific page, complete with interactive graphs that feel just a touch too whimsical for disclosing government wiretap subpoenas.
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Rosenstein is the guy who put his signature on a document to renew the wiretap warrant application and he knew that that was a fabricated phony document.
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Then came the doozy: Trump's tweet -- and subsequent assertions -- that President Barack Obama has ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the heat of the 2016 campaign.
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Relying partly on wiretap evidence, prosecutors charged the guards with bringing in narcotics, cell phones, pornographic DVDs and tobacco in exchange for money and sex with inmates.
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Josh Blackman, a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law in Houston, said it's far easier to obtain a pen register than a wiretap.
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At one point, the United States attorney's office learned that a wiretap by Mr. Spota's office had been intercepting phone calls involving F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors.
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"It is now apparent that Jeremy Reichberg's problems are the product of his own actions and his own words from a court ordered wiretap on his phone."
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But two days later Nunes effectively revived Trump's wiretap claims by reporting that Trump's own communications may have been picked up in "incidental" collections by domestic spies.
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This solution, Levy and Robinson say, would be "no more intrusive than the virtual crocodile clips" that lawmakers have already authorized police to use to wiretap communications.
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He had a long rap sheet and was originally connected to the drug ring based on wiretap evidence that he was selling cocaine to low-level dealers.
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The Department of Justice obtained a warrant to wiretap Mr. Page in October 2016 — after he had left the campaign and the Russia investigation had already begun.
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He also claimed to have learned of the surveillance from The New York Times and accused The Times of removing the word "wiretap" from the article's headline.
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Democrats on the committee wrote the document to counter a Republican memo that portrayed as scandalous the application to wiretap Carter Page, the former Trump campaign associate.
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Plainclothes officers trailed two men, who according to the wiretap were unnerved by the presence of a Police Department patrol car and decided against the vendetta attack.
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Yes, it tries to imply that, by saying Ohr "worked closely with Deputy Attorneys General Yates and later Rosenstein," who were previously mentioned as approving the wiretap.
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The courier was caught by the local police carrying a bag filled with drugs at Pennsylvania Station in Baltimore after agents were tipped off by a wiretap.
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Wiretapping is often a valuable method for gathering evidence of serious crimes, but police cannot use wiretap technology without first having an order approved by a judge.
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Dana Boente, whom Mr. Trump appointed to be the top lawyer at the F.B.I., signed one of the secret warrants for a wiretap on a Trump associate.
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A wiretap allows government agents to collect, listen to, read, rifle through and store emails, snail mail, phone calls, text messages, photographs, bank records — you name it.
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This means, said the officials, that government agents might wish to improperly spy on a certain U.S. citizen on whom they could not justify getting a wiretap.
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Still, most Republicans are also pushing for additional protections, pointing to the use of a wiretap on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page during the 2016 election.
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It argues, essentially, that the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, and F.B.I. leaders deceived the federal judge who approved the wiretap warrant and extended it in 2017.
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"We need a 'firework' like those in the 1990s, when one couldn't even walk on the streets," said the man, who was caught on a police wiretap.
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Stellarwind permitted the National Security Agency to wiretap Americans' international phone calls without the court orders required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, of 1978.
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A draft bill to reauthorize expiring counterintelligence powers would make several broader changes, after a damning inspector general report about a wiretap in the Trump-Russia inquiry.
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"There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign," Mr. Clapper said.
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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.
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The report did note errors in how surveillance applications were made to a special court to get permission to wiretap former Trump foreign policy aide Carter Page.
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L.S.U. Coach Will Wade was suspended before the N.C.A.A. tournament after Yahoo reported his describing "a strong-ass offer" made to a recruit on an F.B.I. wiretap.
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He cited the F.B.I.'s Russia investigation, flawed wiretap applications into a former Trump campaign adviser, and the Mueller report, which he brandished in the Senate chamber.
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He noted that the bureau's standards were very low, and he initiated an audit of how it would handle applications to wiretap Americans citizens in the future.
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Horowitz found that leaders at the FBI were not politically motivated in pursuing a secret wiretap on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, according to the newspaper.
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He is expected to detail omissions and errors from when FBI officials applied for the wiretap, people familiar with a draft of the report told the Times.
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Over all, the report said the inspector general found "a number of factual representations that were inaccurate, incomplete or unsupported by appropriate documentation" in the wiretap applications.
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But here, the issue concerns a wiretap warrant that is subject to the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures, another justification for FISA court intervention.
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It seeks to discredit the government's decision to wiretap ex-Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, whom U.S. intelligence officials have considered a potential Russian spy since 2013.
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Camera borrowers must agree not to make audio recordings to avoid violating federal wiretap laws, and agree not to place cameras in bathrooms or the caregiver&aposs bedroom.
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Ten years later, he was at the center of attention again, sitting alongside the NSA, refuting the suggestion that a president could ever unilaterally wiretap without a warrant.
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And, if Trump believes his phones were illegally monitored, he "should explain what sort of wiretap it was and how he knows this," Sasse said in a statement.
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Liu also discussed with his sister in China the details of transfers from Spain of hundreds of thousands of euros to accounts in China, according to wiretap transcripts.
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The top Republican in Congress, House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, added his voice to a growing chorus of lawmakers saying there was no sign of a wiretap.
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On Saturday, prior to the indictment, federal authorities brought Hernandez into their NY offices to inform him that they had, via wiretap, intercepted threats made against Hernandez's life.
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A federal judge had okayed a wiretap order during the course of the investigation, but because the communications being tapped is encrypted, they can't see what's being said.
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Moreover, the prosecutors appeared to have failed to shut down the wiretap during conversations that had nothing to do with any suspected criminal activity, as is typically required.
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Not all encryption is the same, and every indication is that Facebook's Messenger encryption simply wasn't designed to maintain privacy in the face of a court-compelled wiretap.
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Press secretary Sean Spicer appeared to say that Trump's "wiretapping" accusation could have meant broader surveillance activities that are not limited to a physical wiretap at Trump Tower.
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Comey was seen leaving the United States Capitol on Thursday afternoon and declined to answer NBC's question about whether there was ever a legal wiretap at Trump Tower.
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Still he was quiet on the wiretap saga -- in person and on Twitter -- following the conclusion of Comey's hearing, perhaps a sign that he wants to move ahead.
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LSU suspended men's basketball coach Will Wade indefinitely Friday, one day after a report revealed that an FBI wiretap recorded him discussing a strong "offer" for a recruit.
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Asked at a joint press conference about his unsubstantiated claims that Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap of his phones, Trump tried to rope in the German chancellor.
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The use of a pen register allows investigators to track incoming and outgoing calls from a number, whereas a wiretap allows investigators to actually listen in on calls.
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Yael: I've put Signal on speaker and taped stuff, too, but I guess I don't understand how it works if you're trying to wiretap someone else's phone, though.
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Now, the mere illusion that Obama would wiretap Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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They should try to obtain a copy of the relevant application for a wiretap and the court order refusing that application, which the president mentions in his tweet.
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James Comey, the current FBI director, has said he keeps on his desk a copy of the approved request to wiretap King, as a warning against government overreach.
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Republicans have alleged the FBI improperly relied on details from the dossier compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele to apply for the warrant to wiretap Page.
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The FBI and Justice Department got approval from federal judges to wiretap and monitor the communications of Manafort and Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to the campaign.
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Senior leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. have held out hope that Congress will settle the matter by updating the wiretap laws to address new technology.
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The wiretap was disclosed at trial but the software hacking was not, said Lauren Gazzola, one of the defendants, who now works for the Center for Constitutional Rights.
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The transcripts came from a secret F.B.I. wiretap of Mr. Kislyak, and their release would have provided an extraordinarily rare look at the fruits of the government's eavesdropping.
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In fact, one of the suspects is heard on a wiretap specifically citing New Jersey's law and saying they had to move the weapon sales out of state.
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The department's inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, is separately examining investigators' use of wiretap applications and informants and whether any political bias against Mr. Trump influenced investigative decisions.
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The wiretap application partly relied on Democratic-funded opposition research compiled into a dossier by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer who was also an F.B.I. informant.
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And he voted to block proposals that would require judicial approval before F.B.I. agents could sift through the National Security Agency's vast wiretap database looking for those communications.
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Mr. Page's contacts with the Russian operative led to an investigation of Mr. Page that year, including a wiretap on him, another person familiar with the matter said.
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His predecessor as chief judge in December had ordered the F.B.I. to explain what it would do to regain the confidence of the judges who review wiretap requests.
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Digital surveillance experts told POLITICO that a president-ordered wiretap of candidate Trump's phone in Trump Tower is not only improbable, but would likely cross a legal line.
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He concluded there was no evidence of bias in specific actions taken by the FBI, including the opening of the Russia investigation and the decision to wiretap Page.
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"For over two years, a wiretap investigation provided critical insight into MS-13's goals of recruitment, expansion, brutality, violence and rule," Donovan said in a news release.
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Mayoral aide George Burrell then instructed the police commissioner to sweep the office for listening devices, the wiretap was found, and a maelstrom of political rhetoric ensued afterwards.
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The Times reported that there were intercepted conversations involving Mr. Trump's associates, but it did not report that they or Mr. Trump were the subject of wiretap orders.
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Remember that this is a man who has accused the past administration of authorizing a wiretap on him during the 2016 campaign (despite all evidence to the contrary).
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Thursday as a conspiratorial rant on conservative talk radio: President Barack Obama had used the "instrumentalities of the federal government" to wiretap the Republican seeking to succeed him.
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In the spring of 2017, Mr. Nunes sought to bolster Mr. Trump's false claim that President Barack Obama had ordered an illegal wiretap on Trump Tower in Manhattan.
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The same day, House Speaker Paul Ryan told CNN in an interview that he also hadn't seen any evidence of a wiretap or a surveillance order against Trump Tower.
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Federal investigators had led a monthslong wiretap investigation of a drug ring led by Robert Porter, a friend of Young's, but Young was not a target of the investigation.
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" Kelly said that he would expect Comey to turn Trump's wiretap allegation over to "an investigative arm, and we can get to the truth or to the bottom line.
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Spicer on Trump's wiretap claims: 'There's no question that something happened' Later, asked twice in an interview with CNN's Sara Murray about Trump's feelings toward Comey, Spicer again demurred.
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Thanks to the wiretap he got last episode, Connerty is listening when Chuck promises to help his father overcome a "financing snag" with his development, through some backchannel contacts.
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Christopher Ruddy, the founder of the conservative site NewsMax and a personal friend of Trump, writes that he spoke with the president twice on Saturday about the wiretap story.
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Yesterday, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to allege that President Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap on Trump Tower during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Wang's warning to Xu is documented in confidential court filings that include wiretap transcripts from a series of police investigations starting in 2009 into Chinese organized crime in Spain.
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The wiretap transcripts document ICBC managers in at least 30 conversations with six leaders of Chinese networks in Spain, who police believe were seeking new avenues to launder money.
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Back in March of 2017, when the president first charged there was surveillance, Clapper went on NBC to insist that was not true and there was no wiretap activity.
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I guess we don&apost know, I mean, unless may be in the whole investigation we found out that somebody on the campaign did have a wiretap or something.
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The accusations emerged earlier this week when Fox News judicial analyst Napolitano said that three intelligence sources told him that Obama had used the British GCHQ to wiretap Trump.
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The Wiretap Act also doesn't stipulate what should happen if you're in a bar and someone with Google Glass walks in and records you, with or without your knowledge.
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How to get a wiretap to spy on Americans, and why that matters now, via NYT How FISA Works and why It matters in the Russia probe, via MSNBC
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Let me reiterate what Trump did here: The current President of the United States flat-out lied about the then sitting president issuing a wiretap of his campaign headquarters.
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"A judge has to approve the use of a pen register, but the hurdles for obtaining approval are way less than for a wiretap of someone's telephone," he said.
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On CNN, there was Kayleigh McEnany, asserting that even if former President Obama didn't wiretap Trump, "something suspicious was going on," even though there wasn't a scrap of proof.
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Jordan, however, noted that former FBI general counsel James Baker indicated to the GOP House lawmakers earlier this month that he believed Rosenstein was serious about his wiretap remarks.
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What Mr. Davis did not know was that his customer was an undercover police officer, and that the Manhattan district attorney's office had obtained a wiretap on his phone.
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NBC, citing one of its sources, said that at least one call on a phone line "associated with Cohen" with the White House was caught up in the wiretap.
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"Because there had been no data about transports threatening human life... we could not shorten the period of the wiretap (and move in on the traffickers sooner)," Schmidt wrote.
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A wiretap would have allowed for investigators to listen in on the calls, instead of merely knowing when they were placed, and where they were placed to or from.
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The government officials and others who discussed the dispute did so on condition of anonymity because the wiretap order and all the information associated with it were under seal.
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The three authorities the legislation would renew comprise the "business records" provision under Section 215, as well as the roving wiretap and lone wolf authorities in the FISA law.
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One of his concerns is the F.B.I.'s partial reliance on research financed by Democratic Party interests to obtain court approval to wiretap of a former Trump campaign adviser.
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Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, responded to Trump by asking the Justice Department watchdog to expand an existing probe of a government wiretap on a Trump campaign official.
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The F.B.I. obtained a court-approved wiretap on Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Mr. Trump's campaign, based on evidence that he was operating as a Russian agent.
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Remember back in March 2017, when Trump sent out a series of tweets alleging that then-President Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap on Trump's phones at Trump Tower?
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Imagine what would have happened if, at some point over the last two weeks, the president had just casually conceded that he had been misinformed about the wiretap thing.
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The Justice Department's internal watchdog released a long-awaited report sharply criticizing the F.B.I. for its handling of a wiretap application in the early stages of its Russia investigation.
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Indeed, everyone involved in the Page wiretap knew that what they were working on was likely to come under close scrutiny, yet they still repeatedly failed to follow policies.
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Vopper, a 2001 case in which a journalist received a tape of a conversation among union leaders that someone had recorded in secret, in violation of federal wiretap laws.
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A long-awaited report by the Justice Department's inspector general delivers a scathing critique of the F.B.I.'s handling of a wiretap application but also punctures many conspiracy theories.
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LSU recently suspended Wade after reports that he was heard talking on a federal wiretap to Christian Dawkins, a middleman for agents, about an illegal payment to a recruit.
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But when word of the wiretap was leaked a multi-year investigation - with multiple witness statements, hours of surveillance, document analysis and tracking of a money trail fell - apart.
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But they did have a choice about whether to comment on two extraordinarily sensitive matters involving the president and national security: Trump and Russia, and Trump and a wiretap.
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But in the wiretapping case, Republican lawmakers have neither supported Mr. Trump's wiretap claims (which could risk their credibility) nor strenuously opposed them (which could prompt a partisan backlash).
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To the Editor: President Trump's latest tweet accusing President Obama of an illegal wiretap appears to have crossed a line that could allow a swift and exact judicial remedy.
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MUNICH (Reuters) - Macedonia's former prime minister, who resigned in January after a wiretap scandal, said he would seek to return to the post at an election on Dec. 11.
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Based on previous reporting, Horowitz found evidence of sloppy errors — including one egregious case of an FBI attorney who allegedly falsified a document — in the wiretap application for Page.
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A watchdog report will portray the pursuit of a wiretap of an ex-Trump adviser as sloppy, but it also debunks some accusations by Trump allies of F.B.I. wrongdoing.
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The court filings in the Page wiretap application said his material was "used in criminal proceedings," but it was never part of an affidavit, search warrant or courtroom evidence.
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In July, the Trump administration released documents related to the Page wiretap application that showed that the FBI relied on more than just the dossier to obtain the warrant.
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Jeff Flake said Monday that President Donald Trump should apologize to Barack Obama for alleging that the former president had ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the presidential campaign.
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The FBI, in its application for a wiretap warrant against Page, referenced that they partially relied on the Steele dossier, and the FISA court still gave permission for the surveillance.
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Clapper told NBC's "Meet the Press with Chuck Todd" that in his purview as head the US intelligence community, he could deny that there was a request for a wiretap.
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And I would like you to officially—I know you are going to write a bad article because you always do—[mention] wiretap data used in inquiry of Trump aides.
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Press secretary Sean Spicer this week tried to cast Trump's tweets as meaning broader surveillance beyond a physical wiretap of Trump Tower, citing the quotes around "wiretapping" in one statement.
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The White House spokesman could also face questions about President Donald Trump's claim earlier this month that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on him ahead of the 2016 election.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Thursday accused GCHQ of helping Obama wiretap Trump during the campaign, citing a claim made by a Fox News analyst earlier this week.
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Despite this, Congress has never considered whether the government should be hacking into devices, let alone prescribing a set of procedures and protections, as it did with the Wiretap Act.
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Page is at the center of the Nunes memo controversy after the document alleged the FBI used the disputed Trump-Russia dossier to obtain a FISA surveillance wiretap against him.
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He was referring to Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano who on Tuesday accused Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence agency of having helped Obama, a Democrat, wiretap Trump, a Republican.
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Federal law enforcement officers can seek a wiretap for investigations related to a long list of serious crimes, such as espionage, bribery of public officials, sex trafficking, and the like.
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"Remember, this allegation is very, very serious, because there are specific legal restrictions on how a wiretap can be requested from a court, what has to be shown," he said.
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Other cases include Mr. McPartland's decision to order surveillance of the county press secretary and two lengthy wiretap investigations, which involved eavesdropping on a detective and a politically connected lawyer.
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In the last year, the company has been adding encryption to those conversations, making it impossible for the Justice Department to read or eavesdrop, even with a judge's wiretap order.
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Such is the pull of consumer technologies like burners and WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging platform, which uses encryption that is "stymying" FBI wiretap orders north of the border.
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One lawsuit claims that Facebook violates the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Wiretap Act) and state law equivalents because of the way it monitors its users on and off the platform.
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When the Justice Department repeatedly sought the court's permission to renew the surveillance of Mr. Page, the Democratic memo said, it cited new information it was gathering through the wiretap.
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Just months after he took the helm of a deeply polarized Brazil, law enforcement officials leaked a transcript of a wiretap in which Mr. Temer was heard condoning a bribe.
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Indeed, senior U.S. officials with knowledge of the government's investigation into Russia's alleged digital meddling with the U.S. election told The Washington Post there had been no wiretap of Trump.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said the legislation could "allow foreign governments to wiretap on U.S. soil under standards that do not comply with U.S. law," among other concerns.
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ELIOT SPITZER|New York Stepped down in 21979 after he was caught on a federal wiretap confirming plans to meet an escort from a high-priced prostitution service in Washington.
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In a statement, the national prosecutor's office identified the four as Moroccan-Dutch, and evidence of their plot had surfaced from a wiretap of a different man arrested in 2017.
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In fact, you're all in with the biggest lies, the baseless claims that three million people voted illegally, that Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower, and on, and on.
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He said an illegal wiretap would represent "the biggest political scandal since Watergate," while the ability of the Obama administration to legally obtain a warrant would also be a scandal.
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And I would like you to officially — I know you are going to write a bad article because you always do —[mention] wiretap data used in inquiry of Trump aides.
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Since he tweeted in March 20203 that President Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap on his phones at Trump Tower, Trump has provided zero evidence to back up that claim.
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But Horowitz also said the FBI made what he described as "basic and fundamental errors" that overstated its case as it sought court approval to wiretap a Trump campaign aide.
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The wiretap applications contained a lengthy footnote telling the judges that Mr. Steele's research was believed to have been commissioned by someone seeking information that would damage the Trump campaign.
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Horowitz will likely be looking at whether the Steele dossier was essential to getting the wiretap on Page approved, and whether the information about the dossier's origins was properly disclosed.
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In his zeal to undermine the US intelligence community, Trump took aim at the British GCHQ intelligence agency, throwing around wild and false accusations that they'd helped Obama wiretap his offices.
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" Senate intelligence committee Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr said Monday that he has asked the "appropriate people" for information about Trump's wiretap claims, and said their answers have been "sufficient.
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Although federal and state judges have to submit a report to Congress tracking the number and nature of wiretap requests they process each year, no similar requirement exists for hacking tools.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said on Wednesday that the committee has seen no evidence supporting President Trump's claim that Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower last year.
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The administration was forced to reassure key ally Britain after White House press secretary Sean Spicer repeated a Fox News analyst's claim that a British intelligence agency helped Obama wiretap Trump.
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WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday slammed Macedonia's decision to pardon suspects involved in a government wiretap operation and called on President Gjorge Ivanov to reconsider his decision.
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Image: GettyOn Monday, a top prosecutor in the Brooklyn district attorney's office was arrested amid allegations that she used an illegal wiretap to eavesdrop on a coworker and an NYPD detective.
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Neither prosecutors nor Facebook would answer questions about the Fresno U.S. Attorney's office attempt to hold Facebook in contempt or about the underlying wiretap request, including why the matter was dismissed.
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In one legal dispute, the department reportedly could not conduct a court-ordered wiretap, a problem that could lead to another fight in law enforcement's campaign over access to protected data.
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Investigators must clear a high bar to start a wiretap; it requires the approval of a federal judge, and prosecutors must show that less invasive methods have failed or likely would.
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From the Washington Post:[The British] system does not require a judge to approve search and wiretap warrants for surveillance based on probable cause, as is done in the United States.
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Thursday against warantless wiretap programs established during the Bush administration, ruling that the court could not determine the plaintiff's legal standing without endangering national security.
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In a tweet, the president called the network "now as bad as Fake News CNN" after NBC on Thursday corrected a story after three U.S. officials disputed the network's wiretap report.
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When the holiday came and went the next year without any gifts, Inspector Grant expressed his disappointment to Mr. Reichberg during a phone conversation in January 2015, captured on a wiretap.
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"We don't wiretap your communications, we don't sell your information, and we don't use anything we collect to identify you – or anyone else – by name," read an excerpt of Bose's statement.
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Devin Nunes (R-CA), which allegedly details abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that the FBI used to wiretap Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser for President Trump's presidential campaign.
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Critically, according to US officials who spoke to the Post, the Inspector General did not find that this possible alteration affected "the overall validity" or legal basis for the wiretap application.
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The report found several instances where law enforcement officials seeking permission to wiretap his phone calls and emails gave the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court incomplete or incorrect information about Mr. Page.
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In addition to his many other nefarious deeds, Jock orders Connerty to violate his wiretap warrant in order to learn the mystery idiot's identity … calling Bryan an "idiot" in the process.
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The Justice Department's refusal to comply with the judge's order made clear that prosecutors had no interest in confirming the wiretap, which was approved by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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Attorney General William Barr told lawmakers that the inspector general, Michael Horowitz, was looking into the warrant obtained to wiretap Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.
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And if the parts of the Page application that are now public constituted the whole of the case, that would indeed be thin grounds for a yearlong wiretap on an American.
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And the methods in the case — a wiretap of Mr. Frese's phone, perhaps the most intrusive tool in criminal investigators' arsenal — underscored the Trump administration's aggression in hunting leaks to journalists.
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A federal judge authorized a secret wiretap last year on Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Mr. Trump's campaign, based on evidence that he was acting as a Russian agent.
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Aguilar, a 1995 decision that overturned the conviction of a federal judge who had lied to F.B.I. agents about tipping off a friend that he was the subject of a wiretap.
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The report has raised questions about the system by which the F.B.I. obtains wiretap orders and search warrants targeting suspected spies and terrorists under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
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But he did not directly address the chairman's conflation of the wiretap with the larger investigation, which ultimately comprised nearly 500 search warrants and hundreds of court orders for communications records.
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Mr. Trump did use the word "wiretap" in quote marks in two Twitter posts, but he specifically accused Mr. Obama of ordering his phones to be tapped in two other posts.
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Unlike the San Bernardino case, where the FBI wanted to crack one iPhone in its possession, prosecutors are seeking a wiretap of ongoing voice conversations by one person on Facebook Messenger.
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That comment seemed to refer to a finding in the report that there were significant "omissions" in the FBI&aposs application for a wiretap of Carter Page, a Trump campaign official.
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The report is said to cover the FBI's approach to foreign surveillance during the Russia investigation, including of warrants used to wiretap Page, who had advised the Trump campaign in 2016.
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Rather than focusing on the wiretap allegation, they have sought to portray the House Intelligence Committee hearings on Russian interference in the election as an investigation into leaks of classified information.
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Former FBI director James Comey admitted on Sunday that he was "overconfident" in the process used by the bureau to obtain a court-ordered wiretap of a former Trump campaign aide.
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However, Horowitz also concluded that the bureau made multiple errors when applying for a secret court order to obtain a wiretap of Carter Page, a former advisor to the Trump campaign.
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"Those two things cannot both be true unless he is suggesting that the F.B.I. was engaged in a rogue operation unsupervised by a court to wiretap Trump Tower," Mr. Schiff said.
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In September, the Justice Department said it had no evidence to support another of Trump's unsubstantiated assertions: that Obama had ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Using the wiretap, the FBI says it also found instances of the suspect's IP address viewing images of Columbine on 4chan as well as what appears to be child pornography on imgur.
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There were also reports that the FBI planned to pay Steele to do more work, and that the dossier's allegations helped justify the FISA warrant to wiretap former Trump adviser Carter Page.
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The top Democrat on the House intelligence panel, Adam Schiff, said at the news conference with Nunes that Comey would be asked about wiretap evidence at a rare public hearing on Monday.
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British MP Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats party, said it was "shameful" that Trump was prepared to potentially jeopardize the relationship in a bid to stand up his wiretap theory.
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In a series of early morning tweets, Trump claimed — with no evidence — that President Barack Obama personally ordered wiretap surveillance of Trump Tower and implied he might take legal action in response.
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Leland dated Gasper Fiore's daughter, Jennifer, and was caught on an FBI wiretap seeming willing to provide the Fiore family with information pertinent to the business, according to the Detroit Free Press .
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court overruled Moro's decision to release the recording of his call with Rousseff and said it was the only court authorized to wiretap a conversation involving the president.
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As attorney general, Kennedy approved the F.B.I.'s request to wiretap King and urged King to abandon the Freedom Riders, because their efforts were corroding the Democratic Party's base in the South.
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The issue led to an awkward moment on Friday at a joint press conference with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel when Trump was asked about the wiretap claims by a German reporter.
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In one of the wiretap recordings, Gruevski was alleged to have conspired with the transport minister to arrange the demolition of a building owned by a member of a smaller opposition party.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Two Macedonian nationals wanted by Interpol have been arrested in Greece over their alleged involvement in a wiretap scandal that brought down Macedonia's government, a police official said on Thursday.
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Read related coverage: High stakes as CBO set to release cost and coverage estimates for GOP's Obamacare replacement Kellyanne Conway: 'I'm not in the job of having evidence' on Trump's wiretap claim
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President Donald Trump's advisor Kellyanne Conway on Monday sidestepped questions about whether any evidence backs Trump's explosive claim that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on him ahead of the 2016 election.
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When James Comey was the Bureau's director, he kept on his desk a copy of the approval of Hoover's request to wiretap King, as a reminder of the perils of organizational excess.
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Brandeis argued that because the government had broken the law—wiretapping was a crime in the state of Washington—the evidence gained from the wiretap should have been excluded at Olmstead's trial.
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RELATED: Why Trump just can't (and probably won't) quit the wiretap story Some observers believe Trump is eroding credibility that he will need to rally Americans in a moment of national crisis.
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The Trail Mix records also reveal what is believed to be the first example of the F.B.I. remotely installing surveillance software, known as spyware or malware, as part of a criminal wiretap.
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It is also unclear why the Justice Department, which is required to report every time it comes across encryption in a criminal wiretap case, did not do so in 2002 or 2003.
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Four came to mind: F.B.I., D.E.A., N.S.A., and C.I.A. Since each of these three-letter agencies hide themselves, I thought I could hide them in a crossword and "wiretap" the puzzle solver.
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He advocated for reforms to a secretive intelligence court after an inspector general's report identified several problems with the wiretap applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser, in the probe.
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On a later wiretap, the law enforcement official said, he was heard telling an associate that he started working in prostitution in 2008 — not as an arresting officer, but as a player.
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Despite the "no hearing" uproar about the F.B.I.'s process of obtaining a secret warrant to wiretap him, there are never hearings before criminal warrants are issued — federal, state, FISA or otherwise.
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There was even a large shipment of stolen sweets: 10,000 pounds of chocolate confections that two defendants were overheard discussing on a court-ordered wiretap in March, according to a federal indictment.
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It would be the first legislative response to an inspector general report late last year about problems with wiretap applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser, in the Russia inquiry.
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The three surveillance tools on the verge of lapsing are provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, that broaden the FBI's authority to wiretap certain targets and request key documents.
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The bureau did not have enough evidence to obtain a warrant for a wiretap of Mr. Manafort's communications, but it had the N.S.A. scrutinize the communications of Ukrainian officials he had met.
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Federal agencies have said they are facing a "going dark" problem -- "eroding investigators' ability to carry out wiretap orders and search warrants," writes the Times -- because they cannot bypass devices' security measures.
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He picked up Trump's wiretap story and added a new exciting detail: Not only had Barack Obama bugged Trump Tower, he might have used British intelligence spies to do the dirty work.
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He focused on a wiretap application into Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser, which he found serious problems with, even if it was ultimately a minor aspect of a sprawling investigation.
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The report has been long-anticipated by Republicans, who have accused the FBI of abusing its authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in applying for a warrant to wiretap Page.
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His firing of a black police chief — in a complicated case involving a potentially illegal wiretap and unreleased audio recordings that are believed to include police officers using racist language — infuriated many.
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Such an occasion might arise if, for example, Carter Page was indicted and moved to suppress evidence obtained from the wiretap on the grounds that it was tainted by the Steele dossier.
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If there was a wiretap, it suggests that F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors had probable cause to believe that Mr. Trump the candidate was operating as an agent of a foreign power.
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The inspector general will fault the F.B.I. for failing to tell the judges who approved the wiretap applications about potential problems with the dossier, the people familiar with the draft report said.
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That court issues warrants that allow Justice Department officials to wiretap individuals, a process that has been thrown into the spotlight amid the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump suggested more information would be coming out soon about his claim that former President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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The Spanish national police had wiretap on him talking to the head of an organ -- Russian organized crime gang leader in Spain in which their leader is talking about him as El Padrino.
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"It's suspicious to have a blanket authority," said Ben Levitan, a telecom industry veteran who helped create America's early cell networks and worked with wireless companies to create wiretap systems for mobile phones.
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A federal judge would only have approved a warrant to wiretap Trump's phones if he or she had found probable cause that Trump had committed a federal crime or was a foreign agent.
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Recently, federal investigators began to examine the unusual circumstances surrounding the district attorney's wiretap of a detective's phone in 2014, according to two Suffolk officials who are familiar with several recently issued subpoenas.
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Only months into Trump's presidency, then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer cited in a briefing an uncorroborated report alleging British involvement in an attempt to wiretap Trump Tower during the 2016 election.
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The FBI managed to persuade the attorney-general, Bobby Kennedy, that King had links with communists and that the G-men must therefore wiretap his phones and bug any rooms he stayed in.
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As ICBC staff were moving into their new branch, suspected Chinese criminal groups in Spain were looking for new avenues to launder money, according to the wiretap transcripts and Spanish financial security officials.
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In one wiretap, an accused clan member refers to her as "the mistress of the house", and the police statement on the arrests said she was the real boss of the Resuttana neighborhood.
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And when you talk about court representations, that&aposs the possibility that they use the dossier to convince a FISA court to allow the FBI to wiretap people in Trump world, Trump associates.
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President Trump has been fixated for more than a year on proving that a wiretap of Page—after he left the Trump campaign—was part of a partisan effort to undermine his candidacy.
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These misstatements and lies range from the big -- that President Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign -- to the much more mundane, like making up phone calls with people.
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There's not much more information on the case in the report, other than that the wiretap order targeted 149 individuals in connection with a federal narcotics case over the course of 120 days.
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"Wiretap covers a lot of different things," Trump told Carlson, speaking about the topic for the first time since he made the claim that Barack Obama had ordered a tap on his phones.
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Congress responded by enacting what is still known as Title III, the federal wiretap statute which nearly 28503 years later stands as a testament to the open, deliberative approach to complex privacy issues.
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In the United States, the Justice Department has been discussing how to proceed in a continuing criminal investigation in which a federal judge approved a wiretap, but investigators were stymied by WhatsApp's encryption.
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But Trump's allegation has complicated the situation; if Obama had personally ordered the wiretap, as Trump claimed, it raises the potential that the FBI may have broken the law by agreeing to it.
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The security facelift means that WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook will no longer be technically capable of handing over users' chat logs, even when presented with a court order or wiretap warrant.
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Worried that his conversations might have been picked up on a government-authorized wiretap or perhaps by Russia or China, Mr. Kushner has become increasingly cautious about how he communicates, even with friends.
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Trump's weekend tweetstorm shows that he has a dangerous misunderstanding of how the US legal system works — and a false belief that an elected leader could simply order the wiretap of another politician.
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That same day, a Brazilian judge ordered the government to release a wiretap recording of Rousseff — yes, the government is listening in on its own president — speaking to Lula, as he's commonly known.
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The process of obtaining a FISA warrant to wiretap is slightly different from the process used in a district court, but the authorized surveillance technique — in other words, the "spying" — is the same.
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The news caused a national sensation — in part because of the scandal was close to the newly elected president, and in part because those Blagojevich wiretap quotes above were so over the top.
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To approve such a wiretap of an American, a judge must decide that there is sufficient evidence that the target is probably an agent of a foreign power, or knowingly aiding foreign agents.
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The judge must agree that the target is probably an agent of a foreign power and will probably use the specific email accounts or phone numbers that the Justice Department wants to wiretap.
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The inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, has been examining how the F.B.I. and Justice Department obtained a secret warrant in October 2016 to wiretap Carter Page, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser.
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The Justice Department's inspector general has been investigating the origins of Trump-Russia inquiry, including the use of political opposition research as part of a wiretap application targeting a former Trump campaign aide.
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As part of their monthslong attacks on the Russia investigation, the president and his allies have accused law enforcement officials of improperly obtaining a secret warrant to wiretap the campaign adviser, Carter Page.
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Some of the documents at issue involve the beginnings of the Russia investigation, when law enforcement officials submitted an application seeking permission from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to wiretap Mr. Page.
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Paul said he had spoken with Trump by phone on Wednesday afternoon, and added that the President supports an amendment that would limit how the national security wiretap can be used on Americans.
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The timing is driven by the pending expiration of three investigative powers unrelated to the Page wiretap issues, including the F.B.I.'s ability to collect business records for an espionage or terrorism case.
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Even some legal experts who support his work have argued that releasing the wiretap was improper because the warrant used to record the call appeared to have expired when the conversation took place.
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In July, the FBI released redacted documents that showed that the bureau relied on evidence that was unrelated to the Steele dossier in its application to wiretap Page, and disclosed Steele's political motives.
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Republicans have alleged the FBI abused its powers in applying for a surveillance warrant to wiretap former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, and that bureau agents were motivated by political bias against Trump.
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The Times article Mr. Trump referred to did use the word "wiretap" but it did not assert that Mr. Obama had ordered surveillance of Mr. Trump, nor did it even mention Mr. Obama.
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Many of the problems centered on the F.B.I.'s reliance for the wiretap application on a notorious dossier of unverified, salacious information about Mr. Trump compiled by a British former spy, Christopher Steele.
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While Mr. Horowitz ruled out political motivations, he said in his report that he could not otherwise account for the withholding of the information from the secretive surveillance court that approved the wiretap.
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The tweet refers to a request by federal authorities to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2016 to wiretap former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page, who was suspected of having contacts with Russians.
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They have also argued that the government inappropriately used the dossier, paid for in part by the Democrats, to apply for a warrant to wiretap Carter Page, a former Trump campaign official. video
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Durham going beyond the origins of 2016 FBI investigation In his report, Horowitz described a number of "significant errors or omissions" that the FBI made as they sought the FISA wiretap on Page.
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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.
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This feud continued through Trump's inauguration, with the president comparing American intelligence agencies to the Nazis and falsely complaining that President Obama had ordered the FBI to wiretap Trump's offices during the 2016 election.
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Former press secretary Josh Earnest told ABC News' Martha Raddatz on Sunday that Trump's wiretap claim is an attempt to distract from a "growing scandal" over the Trump administration's alleged ties to Russian officials.
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" White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer made a similar argument in the White Press press briefing Tuesday, telling reporters, "The President used the word wiretap in quotes to mean broadly surveillance and other activities.
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"The intelligence committees, in their continuing, widening, ongoing investigations of all things Russia, got to the bottom -- at least so far with respect to our intelligence community -- that no such wiretap existed," Ryan said.
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Devin Nunes left off when it comes to probing alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which gives federal law enforcement powers to wiretap US citizens and monitor their communications with court approval.
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Republicans have criticized the FBI for citing the dossier as part of an application to wiretap Trump's former foreign policy advisor, Carter Page, though the surveillance was approved by four judges appointed by Republicans.
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At the same hearing, National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers also shot down the White House's repeat of a claim from a conservative pundit that Obama might have asked British intelligence to wiretap Trump.
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Requiring cops to seek a wiretap order for each new state or area that a cell phone travels to, the government argues, would be impractical and hinder law enforcement's ability to do their job.
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Trump's baseless wiretap claim "He might come out and say only time will tell, but right now they (FBI and DOJ) should be in the exact same place and they're not," the source said.
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I'm just quoting the newspaper, just like I quoted the judge the other day, Judge Napolitano, I quoted Judge Napolitano, just like I quoted Bret Baier, I mean Bret Baier mentioned the word wiretap.
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Meanwhile, Graham also wants Comey and Justice Department officials to confirm whether a warrant was ever issued by the feds to wiretap Donald Trump's Trump Tower residence in New York prior to the election.
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In fact, just days ago, a Bucharest court threw out illegally obtained wiretap and other evidence from the DNA in a bribery claim against Lia Olguța Vasilescu, mayor of the southern city of Craiova.
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Eliot Spitzer resigned as New York's governor in 2008 after a New York Times report revealed that he was caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet a prostitute in a Washington hotel room.
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At least at first, it was far more than reasonable to conclude that Trump meant that Obama used the infrastructure of government — of law enforcement — to secure a wiretap or bug at Trump Tower.
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"I said the day after or two days later to all of you that I was quite confident that President Obama did not order a wiretap on Trump Tower," Nunes said on CNN Wednesday.
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A key difference between the two laws pertains to whether the NSA can wiretap an American overseas under EO 12333 with approval from the attorney general rather than a judge in a FISA Court.
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"We are now at the culmination of a years-long process to keep our promise to the American people," said Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong, who declined to answer any questions about Trump's wiretap allegations.
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Justice Department officials said on Wednesday that they had fully complied with two of those subpoenas — one related to the department's application to wiretap Mr. Page, and the other pertaining to the confidential informants.
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Chennault was recorded on an F.B.I. wiretap helping to sabotage a peace initiative during the Vietnam War in order to promote Nixon's victory over Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey in the 294 presidential election.
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While the Nunes memo argues that the Steele dossier was used to improperly secure a warrant to wiretap Page, House Democrats maintain that there was far more evidence against Page in the warrant application.
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Prosecutors laid out wiretap evidence and witness testimony that, in many conversations spanning over a month, Blagojevich had schemed about what he could get in return for naming particular people to the Senate seat.
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For example, the bill would push the FISA court to appoint an outsider to critique the government's arguments when a wiretap application raises serious issues about First Amendment activity, which could include political campaigns.
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For example, the bill would push the FISA court to appoint an outsider to critique the government's arguments when a wiretap application raises serious issues about First Amendment activity, which could include political campaigns.
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The F.B.I. and Justice Department, they say, waited to seek a court order permitting it to wiretap Mr. Page until after he left the campaign and was on the verge of returning to Russia.
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Manafort could have been another possible easy target as someone to wiretap surrounding Trump, because the FBI reportedly had wiretapped Manafort years earlier in a separate investigation in which he ultimately was not charged.
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But while Mr. Guzmán kept four or five mistresses throughout the 1990s, Mr. Martínez suggested he was not so much in love as he was jealous — often spying on his girlfriends with a wiretap.
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The wiretap must have kept somebody very busy, because Sheikhzadeh, who lived alone in a West Village apartment furnished mainly with books, was the sort of person who liked to talk on the phone.
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Mr. Durham's investigators asked why F.B.I. officials would use unsubstantiated or incorrect information in their application for a court order allowing the wiretap and seemed skeptical about why agents relied on Mr. Steele's dossier.
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The trio and the agency are also being accused of racketeering, violations of the Federal Wiretap Act, invasion of privacy and fraud, as well as intentional infliction of emotional distress, the court documents allege.
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"I have decided to put an end to this agony for Macedonia," Ivanov told reporters, announcing he would sign a decree bringing a halt to all legal proceedings against politicians over the wiretap allegations.
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Under an EU-brokered deal reached last year to try to end the crisis, a special prosecutor was appointed to investigate the wiretap revelations and Gruevski agreed to an early election, expected in June.
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Judge Collyer's decision to step down from her presiding position nine weeks early stems from health problems and is unrelated to the Page wiretap controversy, said David Sellers, a spokesman for the FISA court.
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In 2015, someone took a great interest in particular conversations taking place in the market: phone calls between Mr. Taliercio and a man named Gennaro Geritano that the authorities began recording with a wiretap.
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The report, by the department's independent inspector general, Michael Horowitz, criticized the handling of a wiretap against a former Trump campaign adviser, but also rebuffed President Trump's claims that the investigation was politically motivated.
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Horowitz also reportedly found omissions and errors in documents seeking the wiretap for Page, who had served previously on the Trump campaign and was suspected of working as an unregistered foreign agent in 2016.
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If so, you couldn't get enough about how Mr. Trump's wiretap allegation and the Russian connections could lead to his impeachment (MSNBC, The Independent, Maxine Waters), and your Facebook feed probably included the learnprogress.
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It's possible that the FISA court, in light of the uproar, could act on its own and order the DOJ to demonstrate that citing the Steele dossier in the wiretap application was not misleading.
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Her son said he was not, because he did not know what his parents had done, "the way we want to keep it," the woman said, according to an excerpt of a wiretap transcript.
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Benford is coaching in place of Will Wade, who remains suspended amid reports that his voice was on a wiretap trying to negotiate to secure the recruitment of LSU freshman point guard Javonte Smart.
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According to the New York Times, the memo says that shortly after being sworn in as deputy attorney general last spring, Rosenstein re-approved an existing wiretap on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
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But the inspector general has previously confirmed that he was looking into the early stages of the Russia inquiry, including wiretap applications, informants and whether any political bias against Mr. Trump influenced investigative decisions.
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In the press briefing Thursday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders could not confirm or deny the validity of the originally reported wiretap, and was not asked about the newly reported logged phone calls.
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While White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Tuesday that Trump was "extremely confident" the Justice Department would produce evidence to support the wiretap assertion, a number of Trump's fellow Republicans in Congress remained unconvinced.
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The NCA, which usually focuses on tackling serious and organised crime, is investigating whether a government translator with access to wiretap recordings tipped off the target of an insider-trading investigation, the Journal reported on.wsj.
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" Conway took to Twitter on Monday to defend her heavily mocked comments, writing: "On wiretap claims, I have said many times that we are pleased the House/Senate Intel Committees are investigating & will comment after.
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Washington (CNN)Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly said that President Donald Trump must have "convincing evidence" for his allegation on Twitter that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of his phones during the campaign.
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The revelation is contained in more than 400 pages of previously classified documents the Justice Department released late Saturday related to the FBI's applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court seeking permission to wiretap Page.
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" In discussing the original story, Giuliani pointed to what he considered procedural irregularities about the circumstances as he understood them — had it been a wiretap — saying, "I would find it strange they didn't notify us.
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"The intelligence committees in their continuing, widening ongoing investigation of all things Russia, got to the bottom — at least so far with respect to our intelligence community — that no such wiretap existed," Ryan told reporters.
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The wiretap accusation also triggered a diplomatic row with another ally, as Trump and aides cited a discredited report by Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano that Obama asked a British intelligence agency to tap Trump.
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Verizon rejected around 22019 percent of requests, granting around 68,000 subpoenas, 700 wiretap demands and about 4,000 "trap and trace" orders that let investigators see what phone numbers are calling a target in real time.
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He compared his proposal to wiretap laws enacted in the 1990s that required telecommunications providers to "enable law enforcement officials to conduct electronic surveillance pursuant to court order," but did not dictate the technology's design.
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Nearly nine months later, the New York Times revealed that Bush had unleashed NSA to illegally wiretap up to 500 people within the U.S. at any given time and peruse millions of other Americans' emails.
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" It is important to be very clear about what exactly Trump is alleging there in his tweets: That President Obama had ordered a wiretap on Trump's own lines -- he repeatedly uses the term "my phones.
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WhatsApp Encryption Said to Stymie Wiretap Order | A fight with WhatsApp, the world's largest mobile messaging service, would open a new front in the Obama administration's dispute with Silicon Valley over encryption, security and privacy.
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Another prison wiretap recording showed an even higher-level 18th Street leader, Carlos Ernesto Mojica, getting involved in negotiations with a chicken vendor who sought to lower her monthly extortion payment to $200 from $400.
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That wiretap application was approved by senior Justice Department officials, was reapproved by Mr. Trump's own Justice Department and was signed by a federal judge based on evidence that Mr. Page was a Russian agent.
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FBI Director Reportedly Asked DoJ to Refute Wiretap ClaimFBI director James Comey reportedly asked the Justice Department to publicly refute President Trump's claim that former president Obama ordered the tapping of phones at Trump Tower.
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There was the wiretap of officers' conspiring to lie to avoid detection for causing an accident during an improper high-speed chase, while doing nothing to help the victim lying in pain across the street.
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Administration officials said that Mr. Trump had read the Democratic memorandum, which seeks to undermine Republican claims that top law enforcement officials had abused their powers when they sought a warrant to wiretap Mr. Page.
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The president and his supporters have vilified Mr. Steele, saying that investigators should have kept his information out of the application for the wiretap because they viewed him as having a bias against Mr. Trump.
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The issue of disclosing a source's motives has arisen in a line of cases dealing with challenges to search warrant applications, which are governed by the same Fourth Amendment standard as the Page wiretap application.
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As even the House Republicans grudgingly conceded, but only after the Nunes memo was made public, the DOJ had included a footnote in the Page wiretap application stating that Steele may have been politically motivated.
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But he appeared especially bothered by the fact that Mr. Trump decided to tweet about his fear of a wiretap, when he simply could have reached out to C.I.A. and F.B.I. officials for the answer.
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Google's fees range from $45 for a subpoena and $60 for a wiretap to $245 for a search warrant, according to a notice sent to law enforcement officials and reviewed by The New York Times.
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After the company was caught engaging in warrantless wiretapping in violation of privacy and wiretap laws under the Bush Administration, the laws were simply retroactively changed to help Verizon and AT&T avoid all liability.
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Here's what you need to know: • President Trump demanded that Congress investigate whether former President Barack Obama abused his power after accusing him of ordering a wiretap of phones at Trump Tower before the election.
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His lawyers have also challenge the plea bargain deal that yielded the wiretap of Rocha Loures, arguing that the billionaire beef tycoon who arranged the recordings was unfairly favored by a close aide to Janot.
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Trump Runs Up Against Congressional Deadline on Wiretap EvidenceThe House Intelligence Committee has asked the Trump administration to provide any evidence phones were tapped at Trump Tower by the end of Monday, according to congressional aides.
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It entered the news recently on the US side of the pond when White House press secretary Sean Spicer read an uncorroborated Fox News contributor's report that the Obama administration asked GCHQ to wiretap Trump Tower.
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"For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time, as a candidate, or against his campaign," Clapper said.
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To date, no arrests have been made Trailing behind it was another narcotics investigation in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania saw police obtain a three-month wiretap that collected 9.1 million text message from 45 individuals.
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This is worse in telecommunications systems, as those systems are specifically designed to be wiretapped, so a little bit of sabotage in the specific wiretap-enabling routines and it would be very, very hard to detect.
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Maybe Mr Comey was just too big for his boots, too unwilling to take the president's paranoid notions seriously—say, by failing to credit his idea that Barack Obama had ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower.
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Mr Comey, who kept on his desk as a reminder of the FBI's need for "oversight and restraint" a request by J. Edgar Hoover to wiretap Martin Luther King, had no excuse not to know that.
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"I've never seen that, a wiretap in real time on a 'selector,"' said Albert Gidari, a lawyer who represented phone and Internet companies on surveillance issues for 20 years before moving to Stanford University this year.
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" It's now clear to every fair-minded observer that Trump's claim that he was wiretapped was false — even Nunes said as much in his press conference, stating, "There was not a physical wiretap of Trump Tower.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (D-Calif.) confirmed he expected FBI Director James Comey to debunk the wiretap claims during their hearing Monday.
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Obama administration officials confirmed to The Hill that talks have begun on a possible agreement allowing Britain to go over American officials' heads and serve wiretap orders directly on U.S. companies for cases involving British citizens.
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Remember that this is the man who, as President, alleged that then-President Obama had ordered a wiretap on his phones at Trump Tower -- despite zero evidence, then or ever, that any such thing had happened.
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The Feds can only obtain a wiretap if they are able to present information to a federal judge, in this case the judge presiding in Manhattan, sufficient to demonstrate probable cause of criminal activity by Cohen.
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"I've never seen that, a wiretap in real time on a 'selector,'" said Albert Gidari, a lawyer who represented phone and Internet companies on surveillance issues for 20 years before moving to Stanford University this year.
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The problem with the president's claim is well-known to the attorney general: Information that is not fully verified is legally allowed to be used in a criminal investigation, and is routinely used in wiretap applications.
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Former Obama adviser David Axelrod slammed President Trump on Saturday for his claim that the former president ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower last year, calling Trump's claim an effort to distract from his own scrutiny.
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Weeks earlier, reports had emerged that Mr. Flynn was overheard on a wiretap talking with the Russian ambassador to the United States about sanctions being imposed by the Obama administration as punishment for its election interference.
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The calls between Mr. Flynn and Mr. Kislyak were referenced repeatedly in court documents and the special counsel's report on Russian election interference but never released, and prosecutors have not acknowledged the existence of the wiretap.
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Law enforcement officials used some of the information Mr. Steele compiled into a now-infamous dossier to obtain a secret wiretap on a Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, whom they suspected was an agent of Russia.
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Even when their communications are "incidentally" captured as part of a legal wiretap on a legitimate national security target, the U.S. citizens' names are supposed to be hidden or "masked" from others inside the intelligence agencies.
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Under the new law, the agency, known by its Indonesian initials KPK, will be overseen by an Oversight Council, handpicked by President Joko Widodo, and investigators will lose their right to wiretap suspects without a warrant.
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The Nunes memo is significant not for what it said but for what it left out, namely, the identification of any inaccurate facts in the wiretap application about Page's activities, including his meetings with Russian officials.
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In attempting to show that the Steele dossier tainted the wiretap application, the Nunes memo points to the application's reliance on an article in Yahoo News about a trip Page took to Russia in July 2016.
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But at Monday's meeting, he criticized him for signing a FISA warrant, an apparent reference to the fact that Mr. Rosenstein had authorized agents to seek a warrant to wiretap Trump associates in the Russia probe.
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The president has privately said he would prefer to do away with FISA altogether, according to people familiar with the matter — even though the part used to wiretap Mr. Page is not among the expiring provisions.
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For example, in January 2017, as law enforcement officials were preparing to seek renewal of the wiretap order, officials learned of a potential problem with some claims about Mr. Page that came from the Steele dossier.
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Washington (CNN)The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that approved the Carter Page wiretap now wants to know more about all applications it's seen from an FBI attorney who allegedly changed a detail in the Page application.
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If it was a criminal wiretap, it would mean that the Justice Department had gathered sufficient evidence to convince a federal judge that someone using the phone number or email address probably committed a serious crime.
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If it was a national security wiretap, it would mean a federal judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had a basis to believe the target was probably an agent of a foreign power, like Russia.
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Here's what you need to know: • President Trump demanded that Congress investigate whether former President Barack Obama abused his power after accusing Mr. Obama of ordering a wiretap of phones at Trump Tower before the election.
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CNN reports that the order allowed officials to place a wiretap on Manafort, while the Journal reports that it covered only stored communications and did not allow officials to intercept his phone communications in live time.
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Last week, Mr. Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge, reported on the morning show "Fox and Friends" that the Obama administration had asked British intelligence to wiretap Mr. Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Indonesia's parliament last week approved changes to a law governing the country's anti-corruption agency, sparking alarm among activists who say revisions that include curbing its freedom to wiretap suspects will hurt the fight against graft.
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Investigators obtained an order to wiretap Carter Page but not other Trump officials who later pleaded guilty to lying to investigators, including Papadopolous, former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
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These include whether the FBI and the Justice Department acted properly in seeking a warrant for a wiretap on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page and whether political bias motivated law enforcement to pursue these investigations.
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He also found that F.B.I. leaders did not take politically motivated actions in pursuing a secret wiretap on a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page — eavesdropping that Mr. Trump's allies have long decried as politically motivated.
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A key difference between the two laws pertains to whether the NSA can wiretap an American overseas under Executive Order 12333 with approval from the attorney general rather than from a judge in a FISA Court.
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Prosecutors have handed over troves of evidence — tens of thousands of pages and hours of wiretap audio recordings — but successfully argued that the most sensitive witnesses would be in grave peril if identified ahead of testifying.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein immediately appeared to comply, asking the department's inspector general, Matthew Horowitz, to expand an ongoing probe into whether the DOJ relied too heavily on the unverified Steele dossier for obtaining wiretap warrants.
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Their argument is that Nunes -- who was a member of Trump's transition team, advising it on appointments -- is improperly providing political cover for Trump's unsubstantiated claim that Obama ordered a wiretap of his phone at Trump Tower.
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Photo: GettyThe U.S. government is demanding for Facebook to "wiretap" its Messenger app so agents can hear a suspect's spoken conversation, as a part of an investigation into the MS-13 gang, according a report from Reuters.
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Worse for McGlashan, according to the Justice Department's complaint, McGlashan discussed with these outside parties repeating the ACT cheating scheme for his two younger children, and parts of these conversations were recorded via a court-authorized wiretap.
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"The materials at issue in this case concern techniques that, if disclosed publicly, would compromise law enforcement efforts in many, if not all, future wiretap investigations," O'Neill wrote, adding that the underlying criminal case was still ongoing.
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Because Messenger calls are conducted over a cellular data connection or Wi-Fi, they are not subject to the same wiretap laws as standard phone calls, which law enforcement can gain access to with a proper warrant.
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The court filings and wiretap transcripts reviewed by Reuters indicate that within eight months of ICBC opening for business in Madrid in January 2011, its staff there were soliciting money transfer business from people under police surveillance.
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Senate Bill 560, introduced by Senator Stewart Greenleaf in December, amends the state's Wiretap Act—which bars law enforcement from recording conversations in residences—to allow police to use the cameras to record footage inside private homes.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. investigators failed in a recent courtroom effort to force Facebook to wiretap voice calls over its Messenger app in a closely watched test case, according to two people briefed on the sealed ruling.
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That would be in keeping with his behavior over the past week, which included an awkward attempt to try to validate Trump's unsubstantiated claim that Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Comey's congressional testimony, coupled with Clapper's assertions -- and the fact that not a single person in a position to know said the wiretap was even a possibility -- made clear that the burden of proof was on Trump.
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The New York Times, which published the bombshell report disclosing the wiretap discussion, also said Rosenstein raised the possibility of the 25th Amendment, talking about possibly removing Trump from office with the help of other Cabinet officials.
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Along with expanding surveillance authorities, the PATRIOT Act permitted any government lawyer to share national security-related grand jury or wiretap information with any government official as long as it would help them perform their job better.
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Second, if a court eventually did authorize a wiretap, then a United States judge decided prior to the election that there was probable cause to believe that Trump had or would commit a serious federal crime. Terrible!
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Correction from NBC News: Earlier today, NBC News reported that there was a wiretap on the phones of Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime personal attorney, citing two separate sources with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen.
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But three senior U.S. officials now dispute that, saying that the monitoring of Cohen's phones was limited to a log of calls, known as a PEN register, not a wiretap, where investigators can actually listen to calls.
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"... Obama had my 'wires tapped'..." Trump's view of himself as the persecuted enemy of the "deep state" is on early display here, as he alleges that former President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of his campaign headquarters.
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The White House said Thursday that President Trump stands by his claim that former President Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower, even though leaders of congressional intelligence committees say they've seen no evidence to support it.
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As recently as this past week, officials said, the Justice Department was discussing how to proceed in a continuing criminal investigation in which a federal judge had approved a wiretap, but investigators were stymied by WhatsApp's encryption.
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But Representative Adam B. Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee, said the documents affirmed that law enforcement officials had acted appropriately in obtaining the wiretap order in the face of "a profound counterintelligence threat" from Russia.
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They give investigators the power to get court orders for business records deemed relevant to a national security investigation, and to swiftly follow around a wiretap target who changes phone lines in an attempt to evade monitoring.
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While none of those tools were involved in the problematic Page wiretap applications, they have been caught up in the debate because any legislation to extend them is seen as a vehicle to for broader FISA changes.
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Those powers are different from the wiretap power used in the Russia inquiry under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, but could serve as a vehicle to carry changes to legal rules for national security wiretaps.
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Passed into law in September, the revised 2002 bill governing the Corruption Eradication Commission, known by its Indonesian initials, KPK, means the agency will be overseen by a committee and no longer able to independently wiretap suspects.
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The two-year investigation was based on a sprawling wiretap that monitored as many as 2000 separate phones, officials said, and has now led to the arrests of a total of roughly 000 members of the group.
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Page has made headlines for more than a year and was reportedly the subject of a wiretap that led Trump to argue his campaign was the victim of a conspiracy that included the Justice Department and FBI.
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The president's popular support began falling, political analysts said, when he approved passage of legislation this month to strip the respected Corruption Eradication Commission of key powers, including the authority to wiretap public officials suspected of wrongdoing.
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This week, clearly at the president's urging, Spicer read aloud an endless series of news stories that would have supported Trump's claim to be a wiretap victim except for the part in which none of them did.
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In his most significant additional proposal, Mr. Kris suggested that the court consider ordering the F.B.I. to change its policy on who signs the factual affidavit that accompanies a wiretap application in a counterintelligence or counterterrorism investigation.
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Last December, an American wiretap of the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey I. Kislyak, intercepted conversations he had with Mr. Flynn discussing the Obama administration's imposition of sanctions on Russia for meddling in the election.
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The strategy on display Monday was first used by the president and his allies in March 2017, when Mr. Trump tweeted that the Obama administration had used the F.B.I. to wiretap Trump Tower during the presidential campaign.
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The inspector general is expected to say that the Justice Department did not know the identity of Mr. Steele's patrons when they used some of his information in the original October 2016 application to wiretap Mr. Page.
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Mr. Horowitz has already begun an audit of other FISA applications to see whether a broader pattern of problems exists in how the F.B.I. portrays for the court its evidence about suspects whom agents want to wiretap.
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Even if his wiretap claim was groundless, as seems all but certain, it has unexpectedly renewed a debate on the left as well as the right over whether security agencies invade Americans' privacy and could undermine democracy.
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The memorandum evidently claims that the wiretap application relied on the infamous Steele dossier without disclosing to the FISA court that the dossier, which alleged that Trump had colluded with the Russians, was financed by the Democrats.
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Clapper told CNN's Don Lemon that he had no knowledge of a FISA warrant targeting Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, and said that he "stands on" his previous statements claiming there was no wiretap of Trump Tower.
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Rousseff called on Brazil's Supreme Court to remain impartial in the political dispute and said the authorized release of a wiretap of a telephone conversation of hers was a violation of the country's constitution and national security.
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Senior law enforcement officials noted that under Mr. Rosenstein, the department won one of its most critical battles with conservative lawmakers who had sought the declassification of a wiretap application at the heart of the Russia inquiry.
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Trump has recently seized on a Justice Department inspector general report that found serious errors and omissions in an FBI surveillance application to wiretap his former campaign aide Carter Page in connection with the early Russia investigation.
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The department's inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, has been examining how law enforcement officials obtained a warrant in October 2016 to wiretap Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign with links to Russia.
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The wiretap episode represents the latest in a series of controversies created by Trump's rogue tweeting -- by his own words -- and stoked by the White House's attempts to deflect or deny the President had meant what he said.
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On May 10, 2012, Gao told a business partner that if the money wasn't returned, "I'm not going to beat her to death, but at least slap her and take photos of her," according to the wiretap transcripts.
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There were hoaxes and untruths that went viral, but none were the sort likely to turn into real news a la the wiretap or Trump's (now apparently dropped) demand that there were millions of cases of voter fraud.
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"I don't know if you remember, a long time ago, very early on I used the word wiretap, and I put in quotes, meaning surveillance, spying you can sort of say whatever you want," he told Sean Hannity.
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As you know, your colleague, the director, Mr. Comey, has, under the glass of his desk, the order in which J. Edgar Hoover said he wanted to wiretap Dr. Martin Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy's signature on it.
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"The intelligence committees, in their continuing, widening, ongoing investigations of all things Russia, got to the bottom -- at least so far with respect to our intelligence community -- that no such wiretap existed," Ryan said during a news conference.
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O'Neal -- the high school superstar son of Shaquille O'Neal -- decommitted from Arizona over the weekend after reports surfaced that Arizona coach Sean Miller was caught on an FBI wiretap discussing making a $100,000 payment to a huge recruit.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Romania approved a bill on Wednesday that would cancel wiretap evidence used to prosecute past corruption cases and could wipe out hundreds of convictions, including that of the head of the ruling Social Democrats.
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One such example is surrounding federal and state wiretapping laws, such as the Wiretap Act, which currently limits only the interception of the contents of communications, as opposed to metadata, which includes geo-location and personally identifiable information.
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He also said federal wiretap law did not prohibit the alleged physical surveillance that Tantaros said included black SUVs, including one driven by a member of late Fox News chief Roger Ailes' security detail, parking outside her homes.
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Why Trump just can't (and probably won't) quit the wiretap story Pressing her way through interruptions, Ryan suggested that the Russia investigations and the wiretapping claims, contributed to a storm cloud around Trump that could hamper his administration.
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The inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, said he would examine whether law enforcement officials complied with the law and departmental policies in seeking permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to wiretap the former campaign adviser, Carter Page.
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The New York Times filed a motion on Monday asking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to unseal all materials related to the wiretap of Mr. Page, including the F.B.I.'s application for the warrant and other court documents.
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In "Shortest Way Home," a memoir published this year, Mr. Buttigieg wrote that "a message came through" from prosecutors that if he did not push Mr. Boykins out, they would charge him with violating the federal Wiretap Act.
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In "Shortest Way Home," his memoir published in February, he writes that "a message came through" from prosecutors that he must push out Mr. Boykins or they would file charges against him for violating the Federal Wiretap Act.
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But Mr. Hutchins had no stomach for an interminable fight and pleaded guilty last week to two counts under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Wiretap Act, each carrying a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment.
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Investigators cited the dossier in a lengthy footnote in its application for permission to wiretap Mr. Page, alerting the court that the person who commissioned Mr. Steele's research was "likely looking for information to discredit" the Trump campaign.
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" In a statement on Thursday, the former governor's lawyer, Leonard Goodman, likewise made an argument meant to appeal to Mr. Trump, noting that prosecutors "used a cooperating informant to get a wiretap to record all of his conversations.
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And though the Trump administration has said Mr. Page was a bit player who had no access to the candidate, the wiretap shows the F.B.I. had strong evidence that a campaign adviser was operating on behalf of Moscow.
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"For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as D.N.I., there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign," Mr. Clapper said.
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Trump seized on a new Justice Department inspector general report criticizing the FBI's handling of a surveillance warrant application used to wiretap a former campaign adviser, repeating his claim that it proved his campaign had been "spied" on.
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The U.S. Justice Department said it had no evidence to support the unsubstantiated claim made in March by President Donald Trump that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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If they are prosecuted based on evidence gathered from the wiretap, they get to see what was in the application so their defense lawyers can argue that the government made a mistake and the evidence should be suppressed.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "2 Officials Try to Clarify: Trump's Wiretap Claim Is Meant More Broadly" (news article, March 14): We now know that the new iteration of "1984" is well underway courtesy of the Trump administration.
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Another controversy that broke out in December 2005 stemmed from the revelation that Mr. Bush had authorized the National Security Agency to wiretap Americans' international phone calls and emails without warrants, despite a 1978 law that required warrants.
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Law enforcement officials were also granted three renewals of the wiretap from the surveillance court; Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general and a Trump administration appointee, signed the last renewal application, which was granted in June 2017.
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"I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks," Trump said about the wiretap claim in excerpts of an interview to be broadcast later Wednesday on Fox News.
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"For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the President, the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign," Clapper said.
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A law enforcement official said the meeting was an opportunity for the senators to ask Comey about subjects that concern them, expected to center on FBI investigations of Trump and associates' Russia contacts, as well as the wiretap claim.
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"This is a case that could have major ramifications for how the Wiretap Act is enforced, and what the consequences are in a world where more wiretaps are done on mobile phones that move across territorial lines," Daskal said.
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When Nunes recently conceded that there was no "there there" about the Trump wiretap claims, it was a significant moment -- for the first time he showed some independence from a White House that had used him as their proxy.
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I mean it&aposs proven to be bigger piece of fiction that the entire Harry Potter series -- BARTIROMO: No but they got approval -- they got approval -- but they got approval to wiretap Trump Tower based on what, the dossier?
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So I think that during the time he was run at Page the FISA was up, so we call that tickling the wire, trying to get conversation generated that you may overhear on your wiretap, in this case FISA.
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Members of a joint federal and state task force probing the international criminal gang MS-13 had tried in August to hold Facebook in contempt of court for failing to carry out a wiretap order, Reuters reported last month.
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Lindsey Graham — frustrated by the lack of answers from the FBI and White House — vowed Wednesday that Congress would "flex its muscle" to determine whether a warrant was ever ordered by the Obama administration to wiretap the Trump campaign.
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" The senators added: "We would be equally alarmed to learn that a court found enough evidence of criminal activity or contact with a foreign power to legally authorize a wiretap of President Trump, the Trump campaign, or Trump Tower.
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Dragnea has previously argued in favor of an emergency decree that would grant amnesty for some corruption offenses - potentially affording him protection against prosecution - or retroactively scrap wiretap evidence collected by Romania's intelligence service SRI on behalf of prosecutors.
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The administration has been adamant that Trump has nothing to apologize for, even as aides such as press secretary Sean Spicer and counselor Kellyanne Conway have argued that Trump meant some broader form of surveillance than a literal wiretap.
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Although phone companies and telcos are required under US law to allow police and federal agencies access to real-time phone calls with a court-signed wiretap order, internet companies like Facebook fall outside the scope of the law.
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The second thing we learned from the Comey-Rogers testimony was that Trump's charge that the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British intelligence service, illegally conspired with Obama to wiretap Trump was as false his original charge against Obama.
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And while they decry how Trump is endangering them and antagonistic to them, they should be happy he's not doing to them what other presidents have done, like passing sedition acts against journalists or having the CIA wiretap them.
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"The only thing that matches what Trump tweeted would have been a FISA wiretap of some variety — because he's saying the collection occurred in Trump Tower, and if it occurred in Trump Tower, it can't be 12333," Cardozo said.
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As a matter of fact, the U.S.' refusal to play ball with Martinelli's paranoid demands to wiretap his opponents is a testament to the enduring strength of America's special relationship with Panama, which goes back more than a century.
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Spicer told reporters he was "almost 100 percent certain" Trump had not spoken to Comey since the Republican president claimed on Twitter on Saturday that former Democratic President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap at Trump Tower in New York.
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"Many people seem to assume that the only intelligence collection that occurred was a single confidential informant and a FISA warrant," he said, referring to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap a former campaign adviser, Carter Page.
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WASHINGTON — Since President Obama named James B. Comey director of the F.B.I. in 2013, the 6-foot-8 former prosecutor has spoken often of dark chapters in the bureau's history, notably J. Edgar Hoover's order to wiretap the Rev.
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She noted that agents are permitted to routinely look for emails by Americans that were incidentally collected without a warrant, even when the agents have only vague suspicions about someone and lack sufficient evidence to get a wiretap warrant.
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But the Justice Department's inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, uncovered that the F.B.I. had cherry-picked and misstated evidence about the Trump adviser, Carter Page, when seeking permission to wiretap him in October 2016 and in 2017 renewal applications.
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The report, by the Justice Department's inspector general, found serious errors in the F.B.I.'s Russia inquiry — especially its handling of the application for a wiretap on the Trump aide Carter Page — but it also punctured many conspiracy theories.
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In telephone conversations recorded by wiretap and played at a news conference in Downtown Brooklyn, where officials announced the indictment, some of those charged could be heard boasting about their roles as traffickers and mocking Virginia's lax gun laws.
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Until Wednesday, Mr. Spicer had steadfastly declined to discuss Mr. Trump's assertion that former President Barack Obama ordered wiretap surveillance of Trump Tower — an act that Mr. Trump condemned as a scandal comparable in scale to McCarthyism or Watergate.
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In an amended complaint this month, EPIC's attorneys wrote that DOJ has never released any comprehensive reports concerning its collection of CSLI, noting that collection of data under the Wiretap Act is conversely subject to detailed public reporting requirements.
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In a meeting with prosecutors and his lawyer, he was warned of threats against him that had been intercepted on a wiretap of a cellphone belonging to a high-ranking member of the Nine Trey crew, the memo said.
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Rod J. Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general who oversaw legal matters related to the 2016 election, asked Mr. Horowitz to scrutinize the wiretap and broader issues related to the investigation, absorbing pressure from Mr. Trump and his allies.
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"It's a funny thing about this port," a hiring agent at Port Newark named Pasquale Pontoriero was overheard saying in a 210 wiretap, a few years before his license was revoked because he had associated with organized crime figures.
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While the laws did not apply to the Page wiretap applications, they have been swept up in the debate because both civil libertarians and Trump allies see legislation to extend them as a vehicle for a broader FISA overhaul.
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FBI: Trump campaign, Russia ties investigated, no wiretap evidence found "The longer this hangs out here, the bigger the cloud is," Republican House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes told Comey as the hearing broke up, urging him to expedite the investigation.
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"The intelligence committees, in their continuing, widening, ongoing investigations of all things Russia, got to the bottom -- at least so far with respect to our intelligence community -- that no such wiretap existed," Ryan said in response to a question from CNN.
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Reuters wrote:Members of a joint federal and state task force probing the international criminal gang MS-13 had tried in August to hold Facebook in contempt of court for failing to carry out a wiretap order, Reuters reported last month.
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Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Sunday that the intelligence agencies he supervised did not wiretap Donald Trump last year nor did the FBI obtain a court order through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor Trump's phones.
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A recent Justice Department inspector general report found no evidence that bias motivated decisions to open investigations into Trump campaign associates, though it found serious flaws in applications used to wiretap Carter Page, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser.
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"The point is, the intelligence committees in their continuing, widening, ongoing investigation of all things Russia, got to the bottom - at least so far - with respect to our intelligence community that - that no such wiretap existed," the House speaker told reporters.
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The key to the Trump surveillance saga is whether U.S. intelligence officials were wrong in identifying high-level administration officials – possibly even the president – who were captured on wiretap during a federal investigation in which they were not the target.
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That means that House Republicans are going to dutifully investigate the possibility that Obama ordered an illegal wiretap, even though there's just as much evidence of that as there's evidence that Obama was building FEMA concentration camps purple monkey dishwater.
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WATTERS: In Mexico, the Russian embassy, and he&aposs meeting with this assassination squad or something like, and he&aposs making calls, and he&aposs speaking Russian, broken Russian, they got him on a wiretap, how is it not a conspiracy?
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There are ways to contest a given order, arguing it's too disruptive to the service or otherwise burdensome — or simply that messaging services aren't subject to the Wiretap Act — but the government's argument is far more straightforward than what Apple faced.
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