Instead of a single piece of evidence, a case like this involves foreign wiretaps, spies and counterspies, signal intelligence, telephone wiretaps and cyber-footprints.
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They made sure that our evidence, those wiretaps that were so famous that we didn&apost -- our wiretaps never even saw the light of day.
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Prosecutions are inevitably onerous, requiring wiretaps, informants and good luck.
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The investigation used judicially approved wiretaps, and began in 2015.
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"Flashback: NYT admits wiretaps used against Trump," the headline read.
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National security wiretaps are more secretive than ordinary criminal ones.
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"The report notes that in 73, "total of 27 percent of all authorized wiretaps (2512,22017 wiretaps) were reported to have used portable devices," which "includes cell phone communications, text messages, and application software (apps).
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They might also dispute the conclusions authorities drew from the wiretaps.
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Soon Hanson would end up being a subject of several wiretaps.
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As part of the investigations, undercover agents and wiretaps were used.
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It is not clear what time period the wiretaps were from.
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They allegedly caught him on wiretaps discussing drug trafficking in Calabria.
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A modern version of "Moby-Dick," with wiretaps rather than harpoons.
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A judge ordered the F.B.I. to change how it conducts wiretaps.
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While applications for criminal wiretaps often eventually become public, the government has refused to disclose the contents of applications for intelligence wiretaps — even to defendants who are later prosecuted on the basis of information derived from them.
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By only capturing soundless video, Google Clips dodges any laws against wiretaps.
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IN OTHER WORDS, YOU CAN'T HAVE WIRETAPS UNTIL THE TELEPHONE CAME ALONG.
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Late 2016: The FBI renews its wiretaps of Manafort's communications, per CNN.
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Ferrara is also trying to link Berhe's voice to wiretaps of Mered.
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But that system failed in the Page wiretaps, Mr. Horowitz's report showed.
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Thomas Reppetto, an author and expert on police history, said the department had been using wiretaps "since the device was invented" to carry them out, and that wiretaps had been especially effective over the decades in fighting organized crime.
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What was the reason for getting these wiretaps and for conducting the surveillance?
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The apps save money on international calls, and, more important, circumvent police wiretaps.
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Phone recordings and wiretaps were also revealed implicating Erdogan and his son, Bilal.
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Wiretaps recorded its operatives talking about sacks of cash buried in the hills.
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Just months after the wiretaps stopped, he committed the double murder last week.
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Products operating over telephone infrastructure do have to help the police secure wiretaps.
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Trump said that President Barack Obama ordered wiretaps of him at Trump Tower.
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That led to a years-long investigation, involving FBI wiretaps and video surveillance.
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Wiretaps are not the only place that law enforcement might come across encryption.
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Wiretaps revealed suspects describing at least one Adidas rival engaging in similar practices.
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The same rule had also long applied to sharing information gathered with FISA wiretaps.
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Laws passed following the revelation have attempted to narrow the scope of warrantless wiretaps.
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That would make wiretaps not only easier to get but also potentially more extensive.
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The bill toughens sanctions for thieves and curbs the publication of wiretaps in investigations.
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They'll double down on undeclared wars and warrantless wiretaps while exploiting divisive identity politics.
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Have we forgotten the recent wiretaps on Brazil's President Rousseff and German Chancellor Merkel?
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The new law placed restrictions on the agency using independent wiretaps, among other measures.
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Mr. Erdogan was alarmed by this development, according to statements captured by the wiretaps.
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Immigration agents spend months mapping out networks and gathering evidence using informants and wiretaps.
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The wiretaps quoted in court papers hinted at the crime family's capacity for violence.
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Now, they're saying, wait a minute … we didn't do these wiretaps, eavesdropping, electronic surveillance.
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They place few wiretaps, conduct almost no undercover operations and do almost no raids.
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"The President used the word 'wiretaps' in quotes to mean, broadly, surveillance and other activities."
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GIGOT: And, Jason, the last case, Carpenter, cell phone wiretaps now, I mean, cell phone.
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A total of 2,937 wiretaps were authorized in 2018, down 22% on the year prior.
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That it was wiretaps and national security letters and at least one human intelligence source.
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A total of 2,937 wiretaps were authorized in 5123, down 22% on the year prior.
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Unlike wiretaps or searches, undercover operations do not require a judge to sign a warrant.
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This is not the first time that the government's wiretaps have been thwarted by encryption.
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They say they need such access to conduct authorized wiretaps and other types or surveillance.
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The contents of the wiretaps were recounted to The Times by senior law enforcement officials.
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There were also wiretaps on then-Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) in 2011 under Obama.
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Look I had a case just like this 40 years ago where the issue was whether the police had said it&aposs done on wiretaps or it&aposs not on wiretaps and eventually the forensic proved we were right and we won the case.
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TechCrunch wrote that the number of wiretaps and related convictions fell sharply in 2018, while investigators ran into more problems with encryption:But the overall number of wiretaps authorized and subsequent convictions "fell sharply" in 2018, the U.S. Courts said in its annual transparency report.
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The White House called Sunday for an investigation into "reports" that Obama ordered wiretaps on Trump.
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This time, Hoover did have some embarrassing wiretaps about Henry Kissinger and talked of using them.
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The report also said that number of wiretaps using encryption went up, rendering the wiretap ineffective.
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Wiretaps are now are devoured and debated in every corner and crevice of people's everyday lives.
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Bland was arrested in September 2017 as one of four assistant coaches caught on FBI wiretaps.
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Surveillance of the criminals Wiretaps are a common practice of law enforcement and especially intelligence agencies.
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Mr. Herdman has encouraged his investigators to work aggressively, including using wiretaps to thwart domestic terrorists.
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The judicial sources told Reuters that magistrates had emails and wiretaps to back up their case.
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Most wiretaps are valid for 30 days before they need to be renewed by a judge.
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He ran a vast surveillance operation out of his office with a sprawling network of wiretaps.
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In 2016 and 2017, there were four government wiretaps against Page, each reportedly lasting 90 days.
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And there remains no public evidence that Obama was personally involved even in the Manafort wiretaps.
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To catch him we would need the police, a law enforcement operation, wiretaps and so on.
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As part of the investigation, Mr. Donovan explained, the authorities used more than just their wiretaps.
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To catch him we would need the police, a law enforcement operation, wiretaps and so on.
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They include the ability to collect business records relevant to a national security investigation, to conduct "roving" wiretaps that enable investigators to swiftly follow suspects who change phones and to use "lone wolf" wiretaps for terrorism suspects who lack ties to a foreign group like Al Qaeda.
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There are two lawful ways that allow government officials to target people in the United States for surveillance and to collect the contents of their phone calls and emails: criminal wiretaps, called "Title III" warrants, and national security wiretaps, called Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, orders.
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We can see deep divisions within the Trump team, and they're apparently concerned about people wearing wiretaps.
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That's too bad, because Dr. Brenner and his agents know all about it thanks to their wiretaps.
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The wiretaps revealed extensive fraud in the country's electoral system and government control of the news media.
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Federal agents went undercover inside the Macho Sports operation and employed a series of wiretaps on suspects.
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It does not involve campaign donations, wiretaps, no-show jobs or the United States Attorney Preet Bharara.
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A full investigation opens the door to 24/7 surveillance and court-ordered wiretaps, according to Hughes.
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Although wiretaps are supposed to be approved by a judge, there are ways to circumvent the rules.
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But then the Washington Post reported that the Justice Department had wiretaps of Flynn doing just that.
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Wiretaps and other surveillance in the internet age are now subject to litigation across the United States.
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The bureau placed wiretaps in King's home and offices as well as bugs in his hotel rooms.
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The ten-month investigation, "Operation Sticky Fingers," used surveillance, wiretaps, security camera footage and financial records analysis.
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Nothing in publicly released F.B.I. files suggests that warrants had been obtained for wiretaps, a legal requirement.
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With no evidence of wiretaps emerging, the White House has been forced into a defensive communications strategy.
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But this much is not: With the DOJ and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court recently determining that at least some of the wiretaps against Page were invalid, it means the government also invaded the privacy of a whole lot of other innocent Americans through those improper wiretaps. Who?
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Based on the investigation of the robbery, a judge approved wiretaps for Zhang and others in his network.
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Along with records of the transfers, the evidence against Mr. Moreira includes police wiretaps, according to court documents.
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Among the evidence provided were thousands of wiretaps of officials in their government apparently agreeing to distribute bribes.
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The report quickly reopened an unsubstantiated debate on whether the Obama administration previously ordered wiretaps on Trump's phones.
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Wiretaps in the case caught him discussing how his family art business could be used to hide money.
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The memo alleges that the FBI used the Trump/Russia dossier to obtain FISA wiretaps against American citizens.
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MONTHS OF WIRETAPS The mastermind of the scheme, William "Rick" Singer, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to racketeering charges.
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He's been attacked from almost all sides for publicly accusing President Obama of ordering wiretaps of Trump Tower.
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This effort included surveillance using paid spies and wiretaps on multiple Trump associates, as reported in the press.
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The court rejected arguments by Mr. Sarkozy's lawyers that the wiretaps were a breach of lawyer-client privilege.
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The ESPN report, citing anonymous sources, said the conversation between Miller and Dawkins was captured by F.B.I. wiretaps.
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Agents routinely listen to wiretaps of foreign officials, but they remain among the government's most closely held secrets.
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American intelligence had picked up Mr. Flynn's conversations on wiretaps of the ambassador as part of standard surveillance.
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In the 20th century, Congress bolstered Americans' Fourth Amendment protections with laws governing wiretaps and searches of newsrooms.
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If Trump officials — or Trump himself — communicated with Manafort during the wiretaps, they would have been recorded, too.
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But that factor also raises the question of what goes into applications for wiretaps in lower-profile cases.
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One reporter, Charlie Savage, produced a helpful Q. and A. explaining the law around wiretaps and key terms.
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Mr. Bharara oversaw the increased use of wiretaps and confidential informants in white-collar cases — a controversial approach.
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The bureau was mired in controversy, stung by criticism over Watergate and warrantless wiretaps, beleaguered by congressional investigations.
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"The President used the word 'wiretaps' in quotes to mean, broadly, surveillance and other activities," Spicer said on Monday.
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Macedonia's domestic political crisis began in February 2015 when the Social Democrats began releasing a trove of compromising wiretaps.
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They only went in a third time to move some wiretaps that had been providing the intelligence they wanted.
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Investigators intercepted thousands of phone conversations and text messages using electronic surveillance and court-ordered wiretaps, the paper reported.
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Having declared an open-ended war on terror, George W. Bush set up military commissions and authorised warrantless wiretaps.
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The bottom line remains, team Obama spied on the Trump campaign using wiretaps and moles with no clear justification.
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The report quickly re-opened an unsubstantiated debate on whether the Obama administration previously ordered wiretaps on Trump's phones.
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They also asked whether the Steele dossier or wiretaps of Trump adviser Carter Page came up during the meeting.
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It also found that the domestic spy agency had deceived justices of the peace in its applications for wiretaps.
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The judge accepted a request from federal prosecutors that telephone companies clarify whether wiretaps occurred within the legal parameters.
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For more than a half-century, the Justice Department has relied on wiretaps as a fundamental crime-fighting tool.
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With telephone wiretaps, the FGP found the gang was using encrypted messaging apps for texts and calls, including RedPhone.
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Garvie doesn't doubt that facial recognition has legitimate uses in law enforcement, just as wiretaps and personal searches do.
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Investigators pored over hotel and banking records and conducted wiretaps to confirm the hotel managers knew about the prostitution.
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Presidents are not allowed to request or order wiretaps — that is left to law enforcement agents, with court approval.
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Two other provisions — one authorizing "roving" wiretaps, the other on lone wolf surveillance authority — are also set to expire.
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The congressman reminded me that Trump said Obama used wiretaps to spy on his 2016 campaign with no evidence.
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Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," former director of national intelligence James Clapper strongly denied any such wiretaps existed.
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Comey also refuted President Donald Trump's assertion on Twitter that Obama had ordered wiretaps of his phones at Trump Tower.
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Aksakoglu's lawyer Asli Kazan said the indictment relied on wiretaps from the second half of 2013, after the Gezi protests.
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But today 93 percent of wiretaps are done on mobile phones, which unlike landlines, travel to more than one place.
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When I mentioned Obama 'denials' about the wiretaps, he shot back: 'This will be investigated, it will all come out.
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" The press secretary added that "the president used the word 'wiretaps' in quotes to mean, broadly, surveillance and other activities.
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Italian authorities have 36,000 hours of wiretaps, as well as secret video recordings of some of the accused receiving bribes.
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But Graham and Whitehouse argued that the oversight for the potential wiretaps falls under their subcommittee on crime and terrorism.
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The law enforcement official said the investigation started after another staff member in the office alerted superiors about the wiretaps.
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Prosecutors and investigators used wiretaps and flipped Mafia soldiers, the so-called "button men," to testify against Godfathers and capos.
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Mr. Banks was not charged with a crime, but resigned in 2014, the day after federal investigators applied for wiretaps.
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This audio, collected through wiretaps, was not used at the trial and is presented here publicly for the first time.
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On March 15, the government's ability to collect call records, combat lone wolf threats and establish roving wiretaps will expire.
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The use of more than 200 wiretaps authorized by Suffolk County courts helped locate suspects around the world, he said.
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Critics point to the agency's reliance on court-approved wiretaps and have suggested political motives behind some of its cases.
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He outlines his endgame: In the past, government-friendly phone companies have practically partnered with law enforcement to make wiretaps easy.
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These types of human intelligence, or HUMINT sources, often lead to much more productive electronic surveillance and wiretaps of clandestine cells.
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Using wiretaps, which freak out Peña's nerdy assistant so much, Peña is able to tell that Christina Jurado is totally panicked.
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James Comey refused to authorize warrantless wiretaps so the Bush admin went to John Ashcroft in a hospital bed http://t.
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Neither has made any real attempt to reconcile after Trump accused Obama of ordering wiretaps at his skyscraper in New York.
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Nevertheless, the FBI starts out any inquiry by pulling up everything it has in its databases from what are, effectively, wiretaps.
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A representative for the FBI said law enforcement officials do not seek wiretaps in cases where it knows communications are encrypted.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales responded to the uproar by asserting that "the president has the inherent authority" to order such wiretaps.
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In a world where leaks, hacks, and wiretaps are already the norm, maybe awareness is the best we can hope for.
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Any existing court orders for business records and special types of wiretaps, for example, will still be valid during the lull.
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Additionally, Homeland Security investigators will advise the local police and provide investigative tools, like wiretaps, to stop human trafficking in Guatemala.
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Such wiretaps are approved by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and they are among the government's most closely held secrets.
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Wiretaps revealed Mr. Paz's contacts with the officers on the force who were later arrested and accused of being his accomplices.
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Lawmakers conducting oversight are usually given summaries of the information, but not the intelligence collected directly from wiretaps and sensitive sources.
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The official who confirmed the warrant against Mr. Page did so on the condition of anonymity because intelligence wiretaps are classified.
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Although Japanese law requires the police to obtain warrants to install wiretaps on phones, the courts almost always grant such requests.
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If court testimony and wiretaps are an accurate representation, the companies have largely replaced boosters as the source of illicit payments.
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Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska issued a statement demanding that the president reveal everything he knows about any wiretaps or warrants.
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As a guy who spent part of his life listening to organized crime wiretaps, you don't get much better than that.
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"Frankly, we have a lot right now," Trump said of his proof, before pivoting back to the media coverage of supposed wiretaps.
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In his memoirs, Nixon didn't suggest any doubt that in 1973 he possessed a full record of wiretaps ordered by his predecessors.
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Tipped off from their wiretaps, the police arrested the employee at Madrid's Atocha Station, making the bust appear like a routine inspection.
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John Kennel, who conducted the wiretaps by listening in and writing out the conversations in longhand, admitted that he transcribed them imperfectly.
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The case resulted in further inquiries into the department's wiretapping squad and, ultimately, to a state law requiring court orders for wiretaps.
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And in northern Ohio, Mr. Herdman has encouraged his investigators to use wiretaps, one of their most intrusive tools, in such cases.
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U.S. District Judge Lawrence O'Neill ruled Monday to keep documents describing digital wiretaps in an MS-13 case secret from the public.
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What unverified or false evidence did intel officials present to the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to get wiretaps on political enemies?
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That's contrary to the now-discredited opposition research "dossier" the FBI presented to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain secret wiretaps.
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Federal wiretaps in the case have captured their conversations, two of the people said, without elaborating on the substance of the discussions.
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The government should immediately produce the following information: These concerns become exponential if there were more wiretaps besides those against Carter Page.
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The Justice Department said in a 2017 court filing that there are no records related to wiretaps like the ones Trump described.
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The identities of U.S. persons whose conversations get swept up in foreign intelligence surveillance and FISA-court controlled wiretaps are closely protected.
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He also noted that he separately was taking action to change the rules for the "unmasking" of officials caught up on wiretaps.
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The court-approved wiretaps were conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which is typically used for terrorists and spies.
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The information they provided was corroborated by court-authorized wiretaps, emails, documents, consensual recordings and interviews of other witnesses, the complaint says.
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Together, the reports of wiretaps and the threat of indictment make Manafort's legal woes — which already looked troubling — appear even more serious.
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" And House Speaker Paul Ryan, asked directly on CBS News' "Face the Nation" if he had seen evidence of the wiretaps, said: "No.
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Wiretaps are some of the most invasive kinds of lawful surveillance in the hands of U.S. prosecutors outside of the federal intelligence community.
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But the overall number of wiretaps authorized and subsequent convictions "fell sharply" in 2018, the U.S. Courts said in its annual transparency report.
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I knew from old spy movies that this was a trick to avoid wiretaps — there wasn't any furniture to hide a bug in.
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Mr. Spota, in a statement sent by email, said his office complied with the relevant rules and restrictions on wiretaps at all times.
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" Blagojevich was caught on court-approved wiretaps describing the Senate seat as something so valuable "you just don't give it away for nothing.
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However, data from the secret services and state prosecutors show the number of wiretaps used has been much lower than the coalition said.
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Law enforcement officials increased their use of wiretaps by 17 percent last year but were rarely thwarted by encryption, a new report says.
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The yearly U.S. Courts report to Congress on wiretaps covers warrants in 2015 for communications as they move from one device to another.
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The book is many things: a Wall Street primer; a procedural drama; a modern version of "Moby-Dick," with wiretaps rather than harpoons.
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Nicholas Pileggi wrote the nonfiction book that Martin Scorsese spun into a web of cheating, mob bosses, greased palms, wiretaps and lip readers.
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Lula's lawyer, Cristiano Zanin Martins, said the decision to release the wiretaps by the court was arbitrary and intended to stir up demonstrations.
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In other conversations that afternoon, the president sounded uncertain of the procedure for obtaining a warrant for secret wiretaps on an American citizen.
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Critics, however, have attacked the agency's use of court-approved wiretaps under her leadership, and suggested political motives behind some of its cases.
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One report indicates the company was already being investigated for having stored "thousands" of wiretaps made by italian prosecutors who use Area Spa's technology.
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Unless prosecutors can investigate with judicial instruments, like warrants and wiretaps — and not mere fines — widespread counterfeiting and fraud will go unchecked, he said.
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Devin Nunes, which alleges that the FBI used the Trump-Russia dossier to obtain FISA wiretaps against American citizens, the New York Times reports.
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The memo alleges that the FBI used the Steele dossier on Trump-Russia ties as a pretext to obtain FISA wiretaps against American citizens.
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The DNA is heavily reliant for its prosecutions on wiretaps and other evidence supplied by the Romanian security and intelligence agencies, including the SRI.
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He was promoted from monitoring traffic at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge to translating and transcribing wiretaps, and then to the vice team.
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But there may be a still bigger risk: Benczkowski could share information about wiretaps and proceedings from the grand jury directly with the president.
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The White House has asked that an investigation of the alleged wiretaps be part of the probe into Russia's interference in the presidential election.
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JUST IN: GOP House Intelligence Committee chair says "we don't have any evidence" that backs up Trump's claim of wiretaps on Trump Tower. pic.twitter.
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Shelves bowed under dozens of binders, each containing thousands of pages of documents—transcripts of wiretaps and witness statements for high-profile criminal cases.
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"Reputation is crucial in a competitive market, and the wiretaps show how much value smugglers place on their reputation," Campana said in a statement.
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The F.B.I. sought the wiretaps from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, rather than a district court, because the applications contained sensitive foreign intelligence information.
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During WWII, the FBI established wiretaps using its own unchecked authority, and engaged in other unethical and illegal activities with no meaningful oversight whatsoever.
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The Nixon administration paid cash to criminal defendants in exchange for silence, orchestrated burglaries and illegal wiretaps—and even contemplated firebombing the Brookings Institution.
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Nearly 30 years later, the FISA court was convened to put an end to such investigative abuses as black bag jobs and unauthorized wiretaps.
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The prospect of that adversarial second-guessing gives criminal investigators a reason to be scrupulous about what they put into their requests for wiretaps.
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Here are some basics about surveillance — including that the power to order domestic wiretaps resides with federal judges, after applications from the Justice Department.
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One of Bharara's predecessors, Michael Garcia, had obtained wiretaps on the phones of Raj Rajaratnam, a billionaire who founded the hedge fund Galleon Group.
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A young White House official who owes his job to Trump personally begins sifting through wiretaps right after the president claims he was wiretapped.
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But if Trump was incidentally picked up on the Manafort wiretaps, perhaps he should have been a little more judicious about his choice of advisers.
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Title III wiretaps in ordinary criminal cases are generally difficult to obtain, especially when compared to the law standard and secrecy in the FISA courts.
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EU mediators eventually persuaded the main parties to agree to an interim government and a special prosecutor to pursue criminal investigations arising from the wiretaps.
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As part of Operation Emperor, Spain's High Court authorized police in November 22012 to investigate the bank in connection with evidence collected in the wiretaps.
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And it will then be 100% up to a responsible adult to find their way through Facebook's labyrinthine settings and delete those wiretaps, won't it?
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Ms Rousseff's allies have also vowed to seek judicial redress against Mr Moro, who unsealed the wiretaps in "flagrant violation of the law and constitution".
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"Both FBI and NSD confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps as described by the March 4, 2017 tweets," the department's motion reads.
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In March 1916, the Police Department conducted wiretaps to eavesdrop on Father Farrell and other Catholic leaders, according to various news accounts from those days.
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Tariceanu said cooperation protocols with the secret service to collect wiretaps and other proof for prosecutors based on court warrants had tainted due legal process.
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Suspicious movement on the Bears' odds the week before the game tipped off the police; wiretaps on Paris's phone recorded mentions of Filchock and Hapes.
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In wiretaps for a sprawling federal indictment in 2013, bookies were caught repeatedly referring to BetCris as one of their tools for making large bets.
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While Mr. Dean was in town, the news of the day — with its talk of investigations and wiretaps — seemed an echo of the Watergate era.
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In September, the FBI and the Justice Department said in a court filing "they have no records related to wiretaps as described" by tweets from Trump.
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Levy and Robinson argued the proposal would be "no more intrusive than the virtual crocodile clips" which are currently used in wiretaps of non-encrypted communications.
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The EU team helped negotiate a deal between the government and the opposition to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate potential crimes revealed in the wiretaps.
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A multi-agency task force used wiretaps, hidden cameras and physical surveillance during an investigation that began last spring, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said.
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The theory goes that they signed the wiretaps that were then unmasked by various Obama administration officials, who then were able to snoop on the transition.
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NBC's report, which relied on two unnamed U.S. officials, claimed that Cohen was under FBI surveillance and that the agency had placed wiretaps on his phones.
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The memo was to include the impact on the agency's many investigations, including the ability to conduct wiretaps and pay informants, one law enforcement official said.
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With that kind of worldview, it's easy to see how a man as paranoid as Trump could come to believe that Obama personally ordered the wiretaps.
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At stake, potentially, were warrantless wiretaps in many prosecutions that Attorney General John N. Mitchell had brought against antiwar activists and other opponents of administration policies.
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In the lengthy piece, Trump repeated several falsehoods, including those about alleged wiretaps on Trump Tower, the millions of people he said voted illegally, and Sen.
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Senator Graham warns that the FBI is "about to screw up big time" by not responding to the letter from his subcommittee re: Trump wiretaps. pic.twitter.
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If Mr. Sessions is confirmed, he will for a time be the only person in the government authorized to seek foreign intelligence wiretaps on American soil.
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Michael Horowitz told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that FBI investigators should have thought about scaling back the wiretaps and surveillance of Page in January 2017.
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In Italy, the police were also used to getting whatever they needed through wiretaps, arranged with varying degrees of formality through their contacts at telecommunications firms.
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But if he had had 10 more and, as a result of wiretaps, had been able to discover the Oswald plan, it would have been worth it.
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What the Times revealed was a White House official who owes his job to Trump personally sifting through wiretaps right after the president claimed he was wiretapped.
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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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The prosecutors, who flipped Mr Singer, enumerate several other jaw-dropping tales, backed up with wiretaps of the various notables admitting the finer details of the schemes.
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He identified Martin Luther King Jr. as a potentially dangerous thorn in the side of the Kennedy administration, approving secret FBI wiretaps against the civil rights leader.
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"Blagojevich got caught by wiretaps and microphones and he was engaging in a practice that we believed he was taking part in for quite awhile," he continued.
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Dragnea and senior party members say they aim to curb abuses by prosecutors and secret services, invoking the specter of a "parallel state" that illegally wiretaps them.
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The conversations caught on wiretaps planted by the Turkish police are alleged to show a conspiracy to help Iran skirt American sanctions by trading gold for gas.
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The proposed changes include placing the agency under the oversight of an external board which would have the right to decide whether the KPK could run wiretaps.
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His words, captured on the F.B.I. wiretaps and at secretly recorded gatherings, can be taken as something like a tutorial on the dark underworld of college recruiting.
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"Wiretaps are not lightly placed," said Greg Nojeim, director of the Freedom, Security and Technology Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a digital rights advocate.
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On a few occasions, these uninformed influencers spread word of Trump's imminent arrest, explosive surveillance wiretaps, or that dozens of new indictments were approved against Trump's family.
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F.B.I. agents are also racing against a clock with FISA wiretaps — good for 90 days — which can also leave them open to confirmation bias, former officials said.
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The Russia investigation did include wiretaps against a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, and the Horowitz review found serious problems with how those warrants were obtained.
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Wiretaps on phones belonging to Sarkozy reportedly overheard the former president and his attorney discussing how to obtain confidential information from a top French magistrate in 2014.
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He also may withhold classified information that could reveal intelligence sources and methods still being used to spy on the Russian government, like any moles or wiretaps.
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Every day, teams of F.B.I. agents listen to wiretaps on foreign officials and conduct surveillance on people suspected of being foreign agents in cities around the country.
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The special court that granted the approval operates in secret and approves wiretaps under FISA -- a law that is typically used to target foreign spies and terrorists.
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Based on the affidavit, the FBI has already caught many Columbia Point Dawgz members using wiretaps and other means, so it could have other means of prosecution.
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Washington (CNN)The FBI is investigating any possible coordination between members of the Trump presidential campaign and Russia, and there is no evidence of wiretaps on Trump Tower.
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The answer, of course, is "no" because perhaps the greatest deterrent comes from the government's use of wiretaps and consensual recordings by cooperating witnesses to build its cases.
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But the indictment, which relied almost exclusively on the wiretaps, contained such supposedly explosive evidence that there seemed little doubt the couple was accused of killing their daughter.
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Still, judges frustrated with the modern limits of wiretaps in drug-trafficking probes have shut down the service and even briefly jailed a senior Facebook executive in March.
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But CICIG, which was set up in 2007 to aid the country's prosecutors, has a formidable record of obtaining hard evidence such as wiretaps and bank-transfer records.
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"If there were wiretaps of then-candidate Trump's organization or campaign, then it was either with FISA Court authorization or without such authorization," Sasse said in a statement.
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"It's critical that we find a way that allows law enforcement to maintain its ability to execute lawful, court-authorized investigative techniques, such as warrants and wiretaps," Sen.
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Italian police wiretaps show that Nigerian trafficking networks have infiltrated reception centers, employing low-level staffers to monitor the girls and bribing corrupt officials to accelerate the paperwork.
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The 2013 allegations, and the wiretaps on which they were based, were denounced as fiction — claims that many Turks found credible because of the Gulen movement's problematic history.
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The three bombers were all convicted on evidence from confidential interviews and wiretaps conducted by F.B.I. agents who were on the scene in Birmingham in the mid-60s.
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Mr. Trump or people close to him have leveled charges that have not borne out, including that President Barack Obama had ordered wiretaps on Trump Tower in Manhattan.
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Friends stopped calling, maybe because they feared the wiretaps, or maybe because they saw the headlines from his case and couldn't be sure he wasn't a dangerous criminal.
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A shrewd self-preservationist, Hoover ducked the order; he could see that the legal system was starting to crack down on government wiretaps and "black bag jobs" — i.e.
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At a high level of generality, FISA applications could contain investigative information obtained through a variety of sources, including sensitive technical (like wiretaps) and human sources, as examples.
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Elisabeth Bumiller, the bureau chief, said the January story was referring to information picked up from wiretaps and other intelligence collected overseas, a process that requires no warrants.
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In addition to Mr. Rodriguez's system tap, prosecutors also used wiretaps collected by authorities in Colombia and the Dominican Republic, as well as one from Homeland Security Investigations.
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Though she says the wiretaps could potentially be the "greatest abuse of power" in the history of the United States, she admits she hasn't actually seen proof they occurred.
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that will decide whether evidence obtained from wiretaps that go beyond their geographic jurisdiction should be allowed at trial.
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The accusations began flying on Twitter early Saturday morning, when Trump accused Obama of setting up wiretaps of his New York campaign headquarters ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
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The Bush administration wanted to expand the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping program; Comey and other top Justice Department officials had concerns over whether using warrantless wiretaps was legal.
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Where cooperators and historical documentary proof fails, the gap sometimes can be filled with proactively obtained evidence through such means as surveillance, covert recorded conversations with cooperators or wiretaps.
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Mueller was a front-and-center Bush cabinet member when the president, scorning a unanimous 2628 Supreme Court ruling, decided he was entitled to impose warrantless wiretaps on Americans.
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Roy Olmstead was a big-time Seattle bootlegger who was convicted of conspiracy to violate the Prohibition Act, in part on the basis of evidence gathered through government wiretaps.
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Equally fascinating is this Letter to the Editor responding to the Safire piece: To many, privacy is more than a right to accurate credit reports and freedom from wiretaps.
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No charges have been brought against officials for their actions in the probe, but the FISA court has barred officials under review for their actions in the Page wiretaps.
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Reform of the secretive surveillance court where national security officials obtain wiretaps in terrorism and espionage cases has long been a goal of civil liberties groups like the ACLU.
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So it was inevitable that coaches at several big-time programs were allegedly caught through FBI wiretaps violating NCAA rules by offering enhanced financial gifts to high school stars.
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FISA requires intelligence agencies to obtain warrants – signed off by the FBI, Justice Department and the courts – before they can use wiretaps in national security cases involving American citizens.
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The inspector general, Michael Horowitz, told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that FBI investigators should have thought about scaling back the wiretaps and surveillance of Page in January 2017.
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Horowitz was on Capitol Hill for the second time in two weeks, testifying about his blockbuster report about the early stages of the Russia investigation and wiretaps against Page.
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The day after White House attorneys leaked Nunes' classified documents, Trump told reporters he felt "somewhat" vindicated in alleging illegal wiretaps—even though the documents showed nothing of the sort.
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In 1969, Richard Nixon had ordered wiretaps for national security purposes that he continued long past their utility for a leak investigation because they were turning up useful political information.
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In my world, which is a lot of the civil rights history, a lot of people are looking towards 2027, when the Martin Luther King wiretaps that Robert Kennedy did.
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The charges were said to have emerged from wiretaps that the ex-prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, himself was alleged to have authorized and which triggered a year-long political crisis.
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President Trump's claims Saturday that the Obama administration pursued wiretaps of Trump Tower before the election have raised additional questions as lawmakers hit the Sunday show circuit this week. Sen.
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Or is it that Cipriani is just one of the bricks the FBI has used to build a broad case against Hanson that also includes wiretaps and an undercover agent?
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The arrests—which come with charges of Mafia association, drug trafficking, racketeering, weapons possession, and murder, to name a few—were performed after evidence was collected through surveillance and wiretaps.
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This has been renewed by successive administrations and supplemented by the Patriot Act and various extensions, which enables wiretaps, surveillance of potential lone actor terrorists and searches of business records.
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Consequently, there is often surveillance video, wiretaps and undercover agents who have captured the distribution of the drugs, since the government knew in advance when the transaction was going down.
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Mexico has announced justice reforms that would aid cooperation, including making it harder for criminals to delay extraditions and improving Mexico's ability to use judicially approved wiretaps in criminal cases.
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"The actual costs of doing wiretaps and responding to search warrants is high, and when you pass those costs on to the government, it deters from excessive surveillance," he said.
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The Washington-based Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, created by Congress in 1978, fields requests from the FBI for national security wiretaps to monitor the communications of suspected spies and terrorists.
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Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) introduced three resolutions censuring President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration officials over illegal wiretaps, the Iraq war and other alleged misdeeds.
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Republicans have criticized any use of political opposition research in applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wiretaps, which are among the most intrusive tools investigators have and are highly regulated.
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Democrats, on the other hand, have been saying they expect the Horowitz report to validate the FBI's controversial wiretaps of a Trump associate during the 2016 campaign and into 2017.
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Hoover's men are smug, citified so-and-sos in trim suits who set great store by fancy crime-fighting techniques like fingerprint analysis, wiretaps, two-way radios and aerial surveillance.
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"We can do wiretaps, but in order to understand the day-to-day workings, the power structure, how they organize — that comes through people who were within the organization," she said.
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And to make cases hold up in court, rules had to be followed: no wiretaps without court orders, no trapping people into committing crimes, no exceeding jurisdiction or violating suspects' rights.
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The wiretaps and findings from police investigations ultimately led Spanish investigators to the front door of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, or ICBC - the world's biggest bank by assets.
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Meanwhile, LSU coach Will Wade and Arizona coach Sean Miller were caught on wiretaps talking about paying recruits, but never even took the witness stand after the judge nixed their testimonies.
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His brief tenure at the Justice Department during the war on terror means his fingerprints are on controversial subjects, such as the treatment of detainees and the use of warrantless wiretaps.
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The wiretaps and search orders would need to be accompanied by a warrant, but, unlike in the US judicial system, they wouldn't require a judge's signature or finding of probable cause.
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Currently, foreign governments must ask the FBI to obtain the information obtained by wiretaps, live surveillance and stored emails through mutual assistance treaties, which can cause delays in obtaining the evidence.
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The motion confirms that neither the FBI nor the Justice Department's National Security Division have records documenting wiretaps as alleged by President Trump in a series of tweets earlier this year.
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Schiller regularly handled wiretaps, search warrants and large scale seizes of drugs, the commissioner said, meaning he spent a few days a week presenting evidence at the Manhattan district attorney's office.
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After a federal trial, with the defense raising historic and current Indian grievances, a judge dismissed the case for prosecutorial misconduct, including illegal wiretaps and evidence that had been tampered with.
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Federal law enforcement, employing its customary methods — wiretaps, hidden cameras, "flipping" suspects and turning them into informants — put names and faces to long-rumored dirty dealing on the college recruiting circuit.
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Mr. Ramos was accused of using his company, Phantom Secure, to sell thousands of encrypted cellphones, supposedly impervious to wiretaps and other surveillance techniques, to drug cartels and other criminal groups.
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Mr. Tuck said he executed no break-ins, illegal wiretaps, money launderings or felonious cover-ups of the kind that drove Nixon from the presidency in the Watergate scandal in 21960.
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Barr chose to focus on critiques in the report that FBI lawyers made errors in filing applications to a special court for wiretaps on former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
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He described a movement of protean adaptability, whose methods resembled those of terrorist groups and criminal organizations; they framed opponents by planting evidence or blackmailed them with information gleaned from wiretaps.
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In his last days in office, Johnson was furious at Nixon after wiretaps revealed that a Republican intermediary seemed to be trying to undercut possible peace talks before the 1968 election.
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In 2015, Michael Horowitz clashed with the FBI over sharing documents over his ability to gain access to FBI documents, including wiretaps, in timely fashion so that he could conduct investigations.
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The bill would also make some changes to the FISA court and traditional FISA wiretaps, revisions that some national security hawks have viewed with skepticism but civil libertarians say fall short.
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They allegedly formed a militia group called The Crusaders, and they hoped the attacks would "wake people up" and inspire further violence against Muslims, according to transcripts of wiretaps on Wright.
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The commission has beefed up protection for witnesses, expanded the use of wiretaps, trained local sleuths in tracing cross-border transactions and helped different agencies collaborate to get more cases to court.
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On June 1, Nixon told National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger to "let your [liberal] assholes know" that the White House would soon be publishing the list of wiretaps by Democratic presidents.
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On Wednesday, Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer declared the White House had no reason to believe the President was under a counterintelligence investigation, which could have led to a warrant for wiretaps.
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Where pen registers and trap-and-trace devices allow authorities to see when a call is placed and to whom, wiretaps grant police real-time access to phone conversations and text messages.
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After U.S. spy agencies resolutely denied any such wiretaps existed, a Fox News analyst sparked a minor diplomatic row by suggesting that Obama may have asked the British to do it instead.
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The CEO of Newsmax Media, known for having a relationship with President Trump, wrote on Sunday that Trump insists he will be proven right regarding his allegation of wiretaps at Trump Tower.
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Sentence a long time coming Using wiretaps and witness testimony, the Drug Enforcement Administration built a case against Valdez-Villareal resulting in the seizure of 100 kilograms of cocaine and $4 million.
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But the judge, Andrew Carter, said those officers were not required to ignore evidence of another crime in "plain view," even if it were unrelated to the fraud targeted by the wiretaps.
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When his scheme came undone, thanks to undercover F.B.I. informants and wiretaps, Sood quickly pleaded guilty — essentially to victimizing the universities, who are somehow the innocents in all this, according to prosecutors.
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The Baltimore airport stop provided federal authorities with key information that they used to obtain 19 wiretaps and listen in on the co-conspirators as they discussed drugs deals, often in code.
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Giampaolo Brasili, the head of the Naples branch of the art-theft squad, which carried out the inquiry — including tails, wiretaps and, eventually, searches of warehouses and homes in several Italian regions.
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Neither chamber has made much headway into deciding how to extend, reform or end the three expiring intelligence provisions related to lone wolf surveillance, roving wiretaps and a controversial phone records program.
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"The F.B.I. repudiated the transcripts of the wiretaps," Burton Hersh later wrote in "Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America" (274).
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A change to rules on wiretaps could make it easier to convict suspects, which has been a problem in the past, a former U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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Though the three sets of charges are all separate, the wiretaps that uncovered the evidence used in the most recent set of charges stemmed from the Libya investigation surrounding his 2007 campaign.
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There is no justification for a year's worth of FBI wiretaps obtained by falsely claiming there was good evidence of Page acting as a Russian agent, or imminently about to become one.
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"We have clear technical evidence about the possibility that he was organizing an attack in Rome," chief prosecutor Armando D'Alterio told reporters, releasing transcripts of wiretaps where the unnamed man discussed possible violence.
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Phone privacy rights — from wiretaps to location data — have long been debated in the courts, so today's ruling is a symbolic win for privacy advocates and somewhat of an upset for law enforcement.
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Organised crime and terrorism have also encouraged judges to take a more expansive attitude than in other European countries to issuing warrants for wiretaps and particularly to the electronic surveillance of suspects' conversations.
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Most wiretaps only last about a month before they need a renewal, but Lenich was able to keep up the ruse for about a year due to the forgery, law enforcement officials said.
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The FBI's inspector general Michael Horowitz is currently investigating the government's use of wiretaps through the FISA process, while U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber is also looking into claims of FBI misconduct.
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Police aren't allowed to conduct wiretaps or undercover operations, and the legal system doesn't allow for plea bargains, so authorities are forced to rely on a cultural pressure to unburden oneself after wrongdoing.
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An ethics watchdog group says it plans to sue the Department of Justice for records regarding wiretaps of Trump Tower and the investigation into connections between members of President Trump's campaign and Russia.
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The trouble started in February 2015, when the Social Democrats began releasing recordings of leaked wiretaps gathered by the country's security services (then run by a cousin of Nikola Gruevski, then prime minister).
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Whether that ovation was righteous will presumably be determined in the coming months when the bribery and fraud cases are heard in court, and the wiretaps that investigators have collected are made public.
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The case against Ms. Kirchner is based on more than 40,000 legal wiretaps and other evidence, much of it collected by Mr. Nisman, which reveals a secret backchannel between her government and Iran.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general is busy conducting a comprehensive review of wiretaps touched by DOJ and FBI officials responsible for the improper wiretapping of former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.
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For example, it showed that the number of people whom the surveillance court granted approval to target with wiretaps for national-security purposes dropped somewhat, from 2702,2120173 in 2016 to 1,337 last year.
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ANNE MINICH, NEW YORK To the Editor: "President Abruptly Ends CBS Interview After Question About Wiretaps" (news article, May 2) notes that the White House on Monday released a 30-second political advertisement.
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The president was adamant in conversations with several people throughout the day on Saturday that he believed he was right about the wiretaps, according to three people with direct knowledge of those conversations.
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In other administration news, officials said on Wednesday that Mr. Trump was not under investigation, the latest twist after the president's claim, without evidence, that his predecessor had ordered wiretaps at Trump Tower.
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Passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the Patriot Act greatly expanded the scope of the government's surveillance powers, enabling new techniques like roving wiretaps and so-called "sneak-and-peek" warrants.
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The libertarian Cato Institute has also criticized the war on drugs for decades, because anti-drug efforts gave cover to a huge expansion of law enforcement's surveillance capabilities, including wiretaps and US mail searches.
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The memo includes the allegation that the FBI used the Trump-Russia dossier to obtain FISA wiretaps against American citizens — and claims that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is based entirely on the dossier.
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Investigators 'going deaf' because of encryption The Australian government's national security adviser, Alastair MacGibbon, said Wednesday that the legislation is meant to restore the investigative powers that authorities had for decades through legal wiretaps.
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Investigators 'going deaf' because of encryption The Australian government's national security adviser, Alastair MacGibbon, said Wednesday that the legislation was meant to restore the investigative powers that authorities had for decades through legal wiretaps.
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Although that denies the person included on the no-buy list the opportunity to rebut the attorney general's evidence, we do the same thing every day with search warrants and wiretaps for criminal suspects.
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This expansion intensified under President George W. Bush, with warrantless wiretaps, secret kidnappings, and torture, but much of it continued under President Barack Obama, tainting a generally progressive eight years in the White House.
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"Both FBI and [National Security Division] confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps as described by the March 4, 2017 tweets," the Justice Department said in a court filing earlier this month.
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But since the early days of the Obama administration, many agencies have systematically thwarted that access for whole categories of information — including, most notably, grand jury testimony, personal credit data and information from wiretaps.
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Congress has until March 15 to extend the three USA Freedom Act provisions that deal with roving wiretaps, lone wolf surveillance and a controversial phone records program that allows the government to request metadata.
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" Graham said he had "serious concerns" about the secretive surveillance court which approved politically sensitive wiretaps in 2016, and that he's not sure the court should continue to exist "unless there is fundamental reform.
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She pleaded guilty to forging judicial orders and conducting illicit wiretaps on two private cellphones, which, officials said, belonged to a colleague and a city detective with whom Ms. Lenich was having an affair.
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Gerald Lefcourt, an attorney for Kukushkin, who was charged with funneling Russian money into state elections, raised the possibility that prosecutors had obtained information that they were using in the investigation from intelligence wiretaps.
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On ABC News "This Week," White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared to suggest that the BBC and The New York Times had reported on charges that Obama had ordered wiretaps on Trump Tower phones.
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Similarly with the effort to tamp down on leaks and the White House has already demanded an investigation into the idea that Obama ordered wiretaps of Trump despite a lack of evidence provided by Trump.
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The reform toughens sanctions for theft and burglary and limits publication of wiretaps in criminal investigations, but the most contentious aspect involves the statute of limitations, which imposes deadlines on courts to complete legal proceedings.
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" As TechCrunch noted, wiretaps are one of the most invasive forms of surveillance, giving law enforcement personnel real-time access to targeted systems and requiring investigators to show requirements "far higher than other surveillance measures.
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Press Secretary Sean Spicer later claimed that Trump wasn't directly blaming President Obama, but his whole administration, and added that "the president used the word 'wiretaps' in quotes to mean, broadly, surveillance and other activities."
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The publication also knocked Trump for repeating an unsubstantiated assertion by a Fox News commentator that a British intelligence agency had helped Obama with wiretaps, while expressing wonder that he would stick to his position.
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Baxley contended that the FBI, which had informants in the Klan in the 1960s and wiretaps on klansmen, wouldn't share the information that would allow him to build a case against Blanton, Cherry and Cash.
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Before her arrest, Ms. Lenich, 41, was a deputy chief of the Violent Criminal Enterprises Bureau in the district attorney's office; it specializes in using tactics like wiretaps to combat criminal gangs and drug organizations.
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Also concerning activists is a proposal that would allow "illicit" evidence to "be taken into consideration and evaluated" by a judge, raising fears that wiretaps without warrants and even torture could be used in trials.
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Assistance orders are legal authority, issued by the court, that can compel service providers — like Rogers, BlackBerry, and their ilk — to "assist" the police in carrying out other court orders, like wiretaps or search warrants.
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The EU, which Macedonia aspires to join, was forced to broker an agreement in which parties agreed to hold early elections and establish the office of a special prosecutor to investigate the content of the wiretaps.
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As part of the inquiries, New York Telephone Company admitted that police wiretapping in the city dated back to at least 1895, providing a list of about 350 Police Department wiretaps over a two-year period.
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The group worked hard to evade detection, meeting at restaurants and highway rest stops and using coded language when they spoke, according to prosecutors, who released snippets of conversations recorded on wiretaps in a news release.
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"All of that meant the Hungarian authorities could only translate and analyse the wiretaps after the transport that led to the deaths of the 71 migrants," he said, adding authorities had observed all relevant Hungarian laws.
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The investigation involved wiretaps and close monitoring of social media that targeted a highly coordinated group of gang members believed to be at the heart of both drug sales and violence on and off Rikers Island.
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That's the deadline to extend three expiring provisions of the USA Freedom Act that touch on roving wiretaps, lone wolf surveillance and a controversial program that allows the U.S. government to request access to phone metadata.
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That's the deadline to extend three expiring provisions of the USA Freedom Act that touch on roving wiretaps, lone wolf surveillance, and a controversial program that allows the U.S. government to request access to phone metadata.
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While listening to wiretaps as part of that inquiry, city investigators heard Mr. Findlay discussing the installation of a gas meter for a price of $1,500 and mentioning "a girl in the office," Mr. Peters said.
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But the unanswered question is how Mr. Trump will respond to the bill, which is likely to be seen as bringing to a close any congressional overhaul in response to the problems with the Page wiretaps.
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In short, he was "an earner," one who brought to his leadership his relative youth and a reputation for spreading the wealth among the Gambino family while deftly avoiding the traps and wiretaps of law enforcement.
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He said last week he also plans to rely more heavily on law enforcement tools not traditionally associated with white collar prosecution, such as wiretaps, search warrants and grand jury testimony introduced earlier on in a case.
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Building on Clapper's remarks, a former senior official also told CNN on Sunday that he is not aware of any wiretaps on Trump's phones related to a criminal investigation by the Justice Department during the 2016 election.
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While much of the "hacking" or other forms of surveillance seemed to rely on these types of automated systems, the company also allegedly engaged in physical surveillance, including wiretaps, in order to discover competitors' advantages or weaknesses.
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While there are few privacy protection laws in the U.S., there is the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and Stored Communications Act, as well as state laws about wiretaps, which cover how companies can monitor information, he explained.
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On the strength of the wiretaps, money transfer records and other evidence, police last year arrested the seven ICBC executives in Madrid, including branch manager Liu Wei and the general manager of ICBC's European division, Liu Gang.
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The conclusions were based on thousands of wiretaps, photographs, witness statements and forensic tests during more than two years of inquiries into an incident which led to a sharp rise in tensions between Russia and the West.
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With extensive use of wiretaps and ambient recordings, police reconstructed territorial divisions in the city and the internal power struggle that made Maria Angela Di Trapani, 49, a powerful figure inside one of the city's historic clans.
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The FISC, also established in 1978, along with judges appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, makes decisions as to whether to approve wiretaps, data collection, and government requests regarding monitoring suspected terrorists and spies.
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According to CNN, there are wiretaps that suggest that Manafort reached out to Russia for help during the campaign, although, as with the date of the warrant, there is more than a little ambiguity about the details.
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When the facts of what Nixon actually did came to light, such as illegal wiretaps, interfering with a federal investigation, dangling pardons, paying hush money, suborning perjury, and demanding tax audits of political enemies, many minds changed.
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Eren Erdem, who lost his seat in mid-2018 elections that granted President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers, has been jailed since June and accused of publishing illegal wiretaps while editor of an opposition newspaper in 2014.
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Although the cases are separate, the accusations of influence-peddling emerged from the Libya investigation, which began in 2013 and had led investigators to place wiretaps on phones belonging to Mr. Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry Herzog.
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The reauthorization of the bill would extend three expiring provisions of the USA Freedom Act that encompass roving wiretaps, "lone wolf" surveillance and a controversial program that allows the U.S. government to request access to phone metadata.
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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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The FBI and the Justice Department's National Security Division "confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps as described" by tweets from Trump posted on March 4, the department said in a court filing in Washington.
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The court appointed him to critique the F.B.I.'s proposal to overhaul how it goes about seeking national security wiretaps after an inspector general report about the Trump-Russia investigation last month revealed flaws in the process.
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Based on wiretaps and statements from informants, the F.B.I. reported that Mr. Young had made a number of other incendiary and perhaps even threatening comments over the years about Muslim informants, F.B.I. investigators and "kaffirs" — or nonbelievers.
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Comey's FBI used the "Steele dossier" to justify wiretaps before and after the election on an American citizen who was a Trump associate without disclosing that the "evidence" was political opposition research paid for by Trump's opponent.
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"Both FBI and NSD confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps as described by the March 4, 2017 tweets," the department said in a court filing that fall, referring to the Justice Department's National Security Division.
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The July agreement called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the wiretaps, which also recorded conversations from journalists, clerics, activists and foreign diplomats, and they revealed various forms of fraud in the country's electoral system.
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Miller and the school agreed he would not coach a day after ESPN reported that he was heard on FBI wiretaps discussing a $100,000 payment to the representative of a sports agent to ensure Ayton enrolled at Arizona.
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When it was first passed, in 2009, the law was viewed as breaking important ground in giving the federal police the authority to prevent terrorism by conducting surveillance through wiretaps, recorded conversations, photographs and remote searches of computers.
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Petrobras said one reason the firm could not break up the suspected oil-trading racket earlier was that it lacked surveillance resources reserved for authorities, such as phone wiretaps and access to bank accounts to follow the money.
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There were also their ongoing cultural and stylistic differences, including, at least according to some associates, the puritanical Kennedy's views on Dr. King's more libertine lifestyle, which Kennedy knew of partly because of wiretaps he'd authorized in 1963.
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The inspector general's office has begun a broader audit of unrelated applications, but for now has said it is focused on looking for factual errors in wiretaps applications targeting Americans — not the harder-to-detect problem of omissions.
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Eren Erdem, who lost his seat in the mid-2018 election that granted President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers, has been jailed since June and accused of publishing illegal wiretaps while editor of an opposition newspaper in 2014.
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Born in France of Moroccan origin, Abballa was jailed in 2013 for helping Islamist militants go to Pakistan and had been under security service surveillance, including wiretaps, at the time of the attack, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.
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Now that we know that again there are wiretaps, national security letters, human informant, now they are saying, oh, they were doing it for his own good or it&aposs not a big deal, this is standard operating procedure.
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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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"Both FBI and NSD [Department of Justice's National Security Division] confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps as described by the March 43, 2017 tweets," the DOJ wrote in a summary judgment court filing on Sept. 1.
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Eren Erdem, who lost his seat in last year's election that brought in sweeping new powers for President Tayyip Erdogan, has been jailed since June and accused of publishing illegal wiretaps while editor of an opposition newspaper in 2014.
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Nunes said Sunday that, based on his briefing with the Department of Justice, "there never" were physical wiretaps of Trump Tower, adding that a classified report from the department on Friday bolstered his belief that Trump was "literally" wrong.
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Through the wiretaps, the authorities say, investigators discovered in 2014 that Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Herzog had discussed ways of obtaining confidential information about another case involving the former president, which was being handled by France's top appeals court.
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Earlier Thursday, Burr chided the legislation's opponents — particularly over a provision that allows law enforcement to obtain "roving" wiretaps to follow terrorism suspects who frequently switch email accounts and discard phones — and recalled the lapse almost five years ago.
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He was identified in a memo by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes as one of a small group of Obama and Trump administration officials who had signed off on reauthorizations for wiretaps of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
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South Bend&aposs first black police chief sued the city for discrimination after Buttigieg demoted him in 2012 for his role in wiretaps which caught officers making racist remarks, according to a white city official fired during the ordeal.
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Several readers have written in this week saying they're having a hard time squaring The Times's own past reports of wiretapping with the paper's assertions that there is no firm evidence that any warrants for wiretaps have been issued.
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In his report, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz cataloged a damning list of egregious errors, omissions or misrepresentations in filings to the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which approved nearly a year's worth of wiretaps on Mr. Page.
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A White House spokeswoman said Monday she doesn't believe President Donald Trump accepts FBI Director James B. Comey's reported denial about Trump's unsubstantiated claims that former President Barack Obama ordered wiretaps on phones in Trump Tower during the election season.
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Lustgarten's arrest was the culmination of several years of investigation by a joint task force in the District of Massachusetts... Extensive wiretaps were conducted in the US and in Colombia and several search warrants were executed on Mr. Lustgarten's emails.
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And he said that he still stands by his assertion from earlier this week that he has yet to see evidence confirming Trump's Saturday morning tweet that then-President Barack Obama ordered wiretaps to spy on him during the presidential campaign.
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As they were watching over a farm full of proprietary genetically modified seeds, the security guards contacted the FBI, who subsequently launched an investigation straight out of a movie, complete with wiretaps and GPS tracking devices planted on rental cars.
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Also pardoned were opposition leader Zoran Zaev, who revealed the existence of the recordings last year, and former security service official Zoran Verusevski, who Gruevski accused of giving the wiretaps to Zaev in an attempt to bring down his government.
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One example he included was a Mexican cartel trafficking large amounts of fentanyl from Asia to Mexico and then the U.S. He said the cartel was using Facebook's WhatsApp messaging system, making it impossible for U.S. law enforcement to conduct wiretaps.
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As a result, unless evidence of illegal wiretaps or other types of criminal activity such as blackmail, extortion, video surveillance, computer hacking or tax fraud emerge, the whole Fox scandal is likely to pass without a criminal charge ever being filed.
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Once again, for the second straight year, the number of times state or federal wiretaps that encountered encryption decreased, though cops and feds couldn't break encryption in more cases (11) than ever, according an annual government report called Wiretap Report.
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Republicans have been more muted about a probe into a Republican president and instead have attempted to shift focus to the wiretap that reportedly exposed Flynn's conversations with Kislyak to the FBI — and the subsequent press leaks that revealed the wiretaps.
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But this new surveillance pact, which is being negotiated in secret, would give British spies an unprecedented level of access to American companies, allowing them to set up wiretaps and serve "production orders" directly on corporate servers located on American soil.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Senate voted on Wednesday to block magistrates from using wiretaps as evidence against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a trial where he is accused of bribing women to keep quiet over his "bunga bunga" sex parties.
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The Justice Department also said in the motion that it and the FBI "do not confirm or deny the existence" of any other records that are responsive to the group's request, which was broader than the alleged wiretaps of Trump Tower.
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That's the conclusion the Justice Department reached Friday night in a court filing; "Both FBI and NSD (National Security Division) confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps as described by the March 4, 2017 tweets," the filing read.
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The Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation usually prefer that their investigations stay under wraps, both to keep open the possibility of using undercover tactics like wiretaps and cooperating witnesses, and to avoid tarnishing the reputation of those involved.
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When Congress enacted the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) in 2628, clarifying laws covering wiretaps and intentional electronic eavesdropping, individuals and companies were far from connecting with one another and storing information on remote servers through email and the cloud.
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They could rely on dubious political opposition research to secretly argue for wiretaps, plant one or more spies in the Trump campaign, then leak to the press a mix of true and false stories to create a sense of chaos.
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His lawyers, J. W. Carney Jr. and Hank Brennan, described a culture of official corruption, with agents taking bribes and alerting criminals to wiretaps and pending indictments, but offered little evidence that Mr. Bulger could not have committed the crimes.
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Nixon was no stranger to illegal wiretaps — he'd previously approved monitoring the communications of four reporters and 13 government officials as part of a leak investigation — but he wasn't the only president to send US law enforcement authorities after political figures.
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He said that once a group had been associated with murder or other forms of violence, it would become much easier to place wiretaps on them, and place informers in their midst, which the F.B.I. has found relatively easy to do.
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The department has also promised to sequester phone calls and emails it intercepted while intruding on Mr. Page's privacy, according to a newly disclosed order by the court that oversees national-security wiretaps under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
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"The actual costs of doing wiretaps and responding to search warrants is high, and when you pass those costs on to the government, it deters from excessive surveillance," said Al Gidari, consulting privacy director at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society.
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She covered her tracks, the indictment said, by lying to fellow prosecutors in the unit she helped to run, telling them she was conducting her own confidential investigation and was the only person who could have access to the wiretaps.
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The remarks were Mr. Barr's first significant speech on "going dark," law enforcement's term for how encryption and other technology innovations have made it harder for investigators to carry out court-approved wiretaps and search for information on electronic devices.
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This attorney briefs his former boss on what he learned, but leaves him with such a garbled understanding of it that it seems like the wiretaps might vindicate Trump's claim that Obama spied on him — even though they clearly didn't.
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The case and its eventual 2015 trial provided a decade of outrageous disclosures, surfacing stories of Swiss bank accounts, a private tax haven in the Seychelles, household conspiracy, wiretaps, illicit cash donations to then-President Nicolas Sarkozy's election campaign and witness corruption.
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Addressing this issue, the prosecutor said in the indictment that though suspects claimed the investigation was directed by "armed terrorist organization militants", their influence on the case file had been removed by a re-evaluation of all the evidence and wiretaps after 2016.
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In their latest segment, Saturday Night Live Weekend Update hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost took on everything from Vice President Mike Pence's email woes to Trump's tweeted allegation (without evidence, of course) that President Barack Obama ordered illegal wiretaps during the campaign.
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To his detractors, many in law-enforcement and among civil libertarians, he was a grand inquisitor who used illegal wiretaps, entrapment scams, unsupported allegations and leaks to the press in a ruthless, messianic pursuit of villainy that destroyed reputations and innocent lives.
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That includes an overall drop in subpoenas, court orders and pen registers and trap and trace devices used to record the incoming and outgoing callers; however, the number of search warrants issued went up by 281.3% and wiretaps increased by almost 226.5%.
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He also denied being a mobster, telling The New York Times that he had been indicted in the gambling ring because FBI agents "misinterpreted his Russian slang" on their Trump Tower wiretaps, when he was merely placing $20,000 bets on soccer games.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in Manhattan on Monday refused to dismiss fraud charges against a former Platinum Partners hedge fund executive and a former union leader for New York City prison guards, who claimed their indictment was based on illegal wiretaps.
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In addition, Fujimori was found guilty in separate trials of breaking into the home of a former spy chief to steal incriminating videos, taking money from the government treasury to pay the spy chief and authorizing illegal wiretaps and bribing congressmen and journalists.
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Due to wiretaps, Johnson knew that Nixon was in communication with the government of South Vietnam through an intermediary, and that the Republican nominee was telling them to sandbag the peace talks, as they would get a better deal with him in charge.
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The government has faced mass protests for its attempts to roll back the anticorruption drive, but Ms. Kovesi has been a lightning rod for those who say that the efforts have gone too far, including in the use of court-approved wiretaps.
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The measure would provide an extension of two USA Freedom Act provisions related to "roving" wiretaps, allowing law enforcement to follow an individual across devices, and lone wolf terrorists -- people who might be inspired by, but not directly linked to, a terrorist organization.
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As encryption makes it harder to track criminals via more traditional surveillance techniques, such as wiretaps carried out by telecom or internet providers, governments have had to turn to hacking to access data in the course of criminal investigations and intelligence operations.
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Following that report, the ultra-secret court comprised of federal judges and based in Washington announced sweeping attempts to reassess FBI applications it receives for wiretaps and requested details about the process the FBI uses and how it plans to fix the problems.
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Davidson said he, too, would favor letting the authorities lapse if there was no deal ahead of this weekend, but he added that he was planning to file a separate bill to reauthorize two of them: the roving wiretaps and lone-wolf authorities.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she is pushing for a reauthorization, not just an extension, of the three expiring provisions that deal with roving wiretaps, lone wolf surveillance and a controversial records program that allows the government to request phone metadata.
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The problems may be part of a broader pattern in other applications that never receive the same intense scrutiny, according to interviews with more than two dozen current and former F.B.I. agents and Justice Department officials who have worked with national security wiretaps.
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Over several weeks, federal prosecutors presented evidence — witnesses, wiretaps, and text and email messages — that they said documented years of corruption "big and small" in which high-ranking police officials provided favors to Mr. Reichberg and a second businessman, Jona S. Rechnitz.
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When US intelligence wiretaps foreign officials, and those foreign officials speak to a US citizen, that US citizen's name is supposed to be "masked": referred to only by descriptors (like "US Congressman #1" or "Trump staffer #3") in the transcripts rather than their name.
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Mr. Zaev said he expected Mr. Gruevski and several other top officials to face criminal charges in connection with the illegal wiretaps, which secretly recorded senior officials discussing plans to rig elections, control judges, punish opponents, arrange suspicious business deals and cover up killings.
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At the time of his arrest, prosecutors said court-authorized wiretaps caught Blagojevich offering Obama's Senate seat in exchange for personal gain, including a job with a nonprofit or union organization, corporate board posts for his wife, campaign contributions or a post in Obama's administration.
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With more extensive evidence against Wright obtained via wiretaps, Hedge's argument about her client's intent—that he didn't mean what he said and never actually hurt anyone—is the best and perhaps the only defense she has, according to veteran Boston criminal attorney Martin Weinberg.
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On the other side, the Justice Department disclosed on Friday that the government was working on agreements with foreign governments to allow them to serve orders on technology companies in the United States to obtain emails and conduct wiretaps, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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First, word broke out that the US government is seriously considering attempting to legally force WhatsApp to cripple its end-to-end encryption in the name of wiretaps, possibly using the same legal strategies that have clearly been working so well for the FBI.
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As president, he sued one of its justices for slander; went on a radio show to accuse another of trying to frame him for crimes; and was embarrassed by a wide-ranging scandal in which his government ordered wiretaps on the court and its investigators.
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Namely, a new American presidential administration and its officials are being undermined and second-guessed by a series of leaks, including intelligence leaks, consisting of material presumably from wiretaps on American citizens, namely Flynn and possibly others, who were incoming members of that administration.
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Most wiretaps are valid for 30 days before they need to be renewed by a judge, but according to a federal indictment issued last month, Ms. Lenich cut and pasted judges' signatures onto falsified court orders more than 20 times to keep the surveillance going.
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Still, the agreement stops short of making a change that many privacy groups have advocated: letting defense lawyers read FISA wiretap applications if their clients are prosecuted on the basis of evidence derived from such wiretaps, as defense lawyers can do in ordinary criminal cases.
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After a yearslong investigation involving a cooperating witness, undercover agents and wiretaps, prosecutors said the men had conspired to funnel Adidas money to the family of a top basketball player who would play for Louisville, one of the most prominent teams the apparel giant sponsors.
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Citing evidence gathered from wiretaps and from "jihad" documents found in the computers and mobile phones of the suspects, public prosecutor Nicolas Le Bris said during the trial each of the seven involved was determined to join a jihadi group and once in Syria "fitted in perfectly".
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And just like the allegation that they used against my husband to get six wiretaps on all of our phone lines was the evidence that they supposedly used was that my husband was going to be doing a lot of fundraising before the end of the year.
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Burner phones aren't perfect, especially internationally Cheap, single- or short-term use, prepaid cellphones paid for in cash — burners — first surged into the public consciousness thanks to HBO's The Wire, which featured Baltimore drug dealers regularly swapping phones to avoid warranted wiretaps by the Baltimore police.
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Senators Lindsey Graham and Sheldon Whitehouse, the top Republican and top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, have asked the FBI and Department of Justice to turn over any warrant applications or court orders for wiretaps on President Trump, Trump Tower or the Trump campaign: NEW: Sens.
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According to People magazine, they waved and smiled as they left the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In a series of paranoid tweets on Saturday morning, Trump accused Obama of setting up wiretaps in his New York campaign headquarters before the 2016 presidential election.
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"The Italian Foreign Ministry has summoned the U.S. ambassador, John Phillips, to clarify the news appeared (in) the press, according to which the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and some of his close collaborators would have been subject to wiretaps in 2011," a ministry statement reads.
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Although it's true that statistics show judges rarely deny applications for FISA warrants or criminal wiretaps, the government rarely submits applications that aren't approved because there are are several rounds of conversations the Department of Justice must go through in order to obtain warrants, per the NYT.
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His time in prison explains why the Italian wiretaps on his Sudanese number picked up nothing in the months before Berhe was arrested; it also explains why, when the Italians asked Facebook to turn over Mered's log-in data, there was a gap during that period.
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The vote put President Donald Trump one step closer to installing a potential mole at the department, with the ability to inform him of any wiretaps or significant developments in special counsel Robert Mueller's grand jury investigation into the possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.
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The Adams Houses had been open territory since 2013, when the police and federal prosecutors stitched together wiretaps, surveillance and tips from street informants into a takedown of the drug ring that had controlled the development for more than a decade and killed Ms. White's brother.
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Critics of the anticorruption drive accuse those involved of using it for political purposes and of relying heavily on the use of court-approved wiretaps, while its defenders say that the effort was under fire because of its success in going after vested interests and powerful individuals.
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But seven months later, the government declassified some of its wiretaps and insinuated that Sheikhzadeh just might be an undeclared foreign agent who recruited people to do the bidding of the Iranian government and had introduced Zarif to an Iranian nuclear scientist living in the United States.
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Bret: I'll try to stress our areas of disagreement here by saying I didn't think much of Comey during the Bush years, either: not on his prosecution of Frank Quattrone, or his opposition to warrantless wiretaps, or his role in the witch hunt against Scooter Libby.
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In return for monthly bribes, Veytia directed corrupt Mexican law enforcement officers under his supervision to aid and abet the cartel and target rival traffickers with wiretaps and arrests, while assisting the H-2 cartel with murders and other acts of violence, the Justice Department said.
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Justice Department practice in filling out applications for secret wiretaps is to avoid naming Americans or American organizations, and the application contained a lengthy footnote alerting the court that an unnamed person who commissioned Mr. Steele's research was "likely looking for information to discredit" Mr. Trump's campaign.
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Miller and Trier each missed the last two games at the Oregon schools, Miller stepping aside after ESPN reported that he was heard on FBI wiretaps as discussing a $123,000 payment to assure Ayton enrolled at Arizona, a claim he labeled "false and defamatory" in a statement Thursday afternoon.
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MOLLIE HEMINGWAY, SENIOR EDITOR, "THE FEDERALIST": I do think people in D.C. like to separate that initial FBI investigation where you saw that there was spying on the Trump campaign, the use of human informants, the wiretaps, the secret subpoenas called national security letters from the Mueller investigation.
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"We request that the Department of Justice provide us copies of any warrant applications and court orders ... related to wiretaps of President Trump, the Trump Campaign, or Trump Tower," the two senators wrote in a letter to Dana Boente, the acting deputy attorney general, and FBI Director James Comey.
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Conservative members of the House are calling for the release of a classified House Intelligence Committee memo, apparently drafted by GOP committee members, that outlines how the controversial Trump-Russia Steele dossier was purportedly used as a pretext for the FBI to obtain FISA wiretaps against American citizens.
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Go deeper: Why a DACA deal looks so hard to reach Sanders also commented on the controversy over a House Intelligence Committee memo that reportedly outlines how the controversial Trump-Russia Steele dossier was purportedly used as a pretext for the FBI to obtain FISA wiretaps against American citizens.
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Beyond the immediate debate about whether to extend, end or reform the sunsetting programs — which deal with roving wiretaps, lone wolf surveillance and a controversial phone records program — is a larger fight about using any reauthorization legislation to reform the court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
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" The FBI Agents Association wrote to Congress recently to encourage renewal of the expiring FISA provisions, and stated that an FBI agent who helps conduct counterterrorism investigations observed, "Sophisticated techniques like roving wiretaps and the ability to access business records are instrumental to how I do my work.
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In addition, unlike the use of other intrusive investigative techniques (such as wiretaps under Title III and traditional criminal search warrants) that are granted in ex parte hearings but can potentially be subject to later court challenge, FISA orders have not been subject to scrutiny through subsequent adversarial proceedings.
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The bill would not make a change that many civil liberties and privacy groups have advocated: letting defense lawyers read FISA applications if their clients are prosecuted on the basis of evidence derived from such wiretaps or searches, as defense lawyers are permitted to do in ordinary criminal cases.
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Using Congress's oversight powers, the Republican lawmakers succeeded in doing what Mr. Trump could not realistically do on his own: force into the open some of the government's most sensitive investigative files — including secret wiretaps and the existence of an F.B.I. informant — that were part of the Russia inquiry.
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And, worse for the President's credibility, it becomes even likelier that he or his team has asked for a list of wiretaps and already knows that Obama's understandable and expected counterintelligence investigation of Russian active measures during the election did not include wiretapping the GOP nominee's campaign headquarters in Trump Tower.
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The wide-ranging investigation first came to light in October 2009 with the arrest of Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund, and five others based on extensive wiretaps showing how inside information was passed along and how that allowed traders to reap millions of dollars of profits.
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The measure that passed the House this week extends three provisions that would otherwise expire: access to certain "business records" for investigations, "roving wiretaps" allowing the government to eavesdrop on multiple devices, and allowing investigations of a foreigner -- or a "lone wolf" -- suspected of terrorism not connected to a terrorism organization.
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In an interview, Dieter Lauinger, Thuringia's minister of justice — a Green Party politician serving as part of a three-party left coalition — insisted that the investigation itself was inactive and had never made use of the powerful tools legally available to it, such as wiretaps and the employment of informants.
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To the extent the government seeks new tools to gain access to data, we should demand heightened legal standards, including probable cause, supported by a warrant from a judge, and a showing of necessity and/or the exhaustion of other techniques, as we did years ago in the context of wiretaps.
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Hill Republicans are done talking about leaks and wiretaps Trump may not be ready to give up on his wiretap allegations and his anger at leaks from the intelligence community to the press, but top Republicans on the Hill seem ready to move on to a new strategy when it comes to Russia.
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Nunes's credibility has been in doubt since late March, when he made a confusing announcement that he had evidence that members of the Trump transition team had been caught on US intelligence wiretaps — a statement that seemed to at least partially vindicate Trump's unfounded claims that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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NSA/GCHQ-Tapped Undersea Cable Atlantic Ocean, 2015 Japan-US Cable System NSA/GCHQ-Tapped Undersea Cable Pacific Ocean, 2016 Maya-1 NSA/GCHQ-Tapped Undersea Cable Atlantic Ocean, 2015 The words "mass surveillance" usually bring to mind wiretaps, security cameras, and the NSA hoovering unfathomable quantities of cellphone metadata and Internet activity.
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When his bosses learned that he was a member of a motorcycle group accused of promoting white supremacist beliefs, they moved him to units where his interaction with the public would be limited — tracking down illegal guns and working wiretaps, the officer said, noting that the colleague stayed with the department until retirement.
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The three provisions of USA Freedom impacted by the Senate extension are a "lone wolf" program, dealing with individuals potentially inspired by but not directly linked to a terrorist organization; "roving" wiretaps that let the government track an individual across multiple devices; and Section 215 which includes a controversial phone records collection program.
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The file is thousands of pages long and documents the Mossad's efforts to capture or assassinate the war criminal: countless hours of labor, huge sums of money, scores of agents and sources, wiretaps, break-ins, secret photographs and just about every other ploy in the espionage tool kit, including recruiting Nazis and journalists.
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The F.B.I. has been pushing, in fits and starts, since 2010 for legal changes that would require tech companies to help it gain access to secured data, saying the ability of law-enforcement officials to carry out court-approved wiretaps and searches is "going dark" because of the spreading use of encryption.
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"We request that the Department of Justice provide us copies of any warrant applications and court orders — redacted as necessary to protect intelligence sources and methods that may be compromised by disclosure, and to protect any ongoing investigations — related to wiretaps of President Trump, the Trump campaign or Trump Tower," the senators wrote.
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O.P. Leader Puts New Spin on Wiretaps" (front page, March 23): The dog and pony show of misdirection and obfuscation continues with the bizarre decision of the House Intelligence Committee's chairman, Representative Devin Nunes, to brief the White House and the press regarding conversations of Trump aides that were picked up "incidentally.
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The NSA's interpretation of FISA allowed it to search the vast firehose of internet data that passed through its wiretaps of fiberoptic cables for certain "selectors," or search terms, and collect that data if any part of the communication passed outside the US—even if one or both people communicating were in fact Americans.
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"We request that the Department of Justice provide us copies of any warrant applications and court orders — redacted as necessary to protect intelligence sources and methods that may be compromised by disclosure, and to protect any ongoing investigations — related to wiretaps of President Trump, the Trump Campaign, or Trump Tower," Graham and Whitehouse wrote.
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The attorney general is expected to focus in part on negotiations between the U.S. and U.K. governments for an agreement that would allow British authorities to directly subpoena U.S. tech companies for wiretaps and other information on British suspects in national security investigations, instead of relying on a more cumbersome mutual legal assistance treaty.
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In addition to the human rights conviction that saw him sentenced to 25 years, in separate trials Fujimori was found guilty of breaking into the home of a former spy chief to steal incriminating videos, taking money from the government treasury to pay the spy chief and authorizing illegal wiretaps and bribing congressmen and journalists.
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In that time, the group dispatched a string of operatives trained in Syria, aiming to carry out small attacks meant to test and stretch Europe's security apparatus even as the most deadly assaults were in the works, according to court proceedings, interrogation transcripts and records of European wiretaps obtained by The New York Times.
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After piecing together the sting by compiling and listening to the raw data (including hundreds of FBI wiretaps generated by the two informants, more than 10,000 FISA intercepted phone taps), reading through hundreds of surveillance logs prepared by FBI agents and 85033s documenting the FBI agent's interactions with their informants, the full picture was undeniable.
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And when people are prosecuted for crimes based on evidence derived from ordinary criminal wiretaps, the defendants and their lawyers are usually allowed to see what the government told judges about them to win approval for that surveillance, giving them the opportunity to argue that investigators made mistakes and the evidence should be suppressed.
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" And the word appeared twice in the text of the article: "intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House" and "If Mr. Sessions is confirmed, he will for a time be the only person in the government authorized to seek foreign intelligence wiretaps on American soil.
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In addition to the human rights conviction that saw him sentenced to 25 years, in separate trials Fujimori was found guilty of breaking into the home of a former spy chief to steal incriminating videos, taking money from the government treasury to pay the spy chief and authorizing illegal wiretaps and bribing lawmakers and journalists.
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The concerns raised about General Palomino involve the purchase of a luxury home outside Bogotá that was apparently incompatible with his police salary, allegations of illegal wiretaps against journalists and accusations that he took part in a male prostitution ring that is said to have forced cadets to cater to high-ranking officers and even to lawmakers.
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The hours of Mr. Guzmán speaking openly about the innermost details of his empire not only represented the most damaging evidence introduced so far at his drug trial in New York, but were also one of the most extensive wiretaps of a criminal defendant since the Mafia boss John Gotti was secretly recorded in the Ravenite Social Club.
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Similarly, many Mafia cases end up being built on wiretaps — just like, for instance, the perhaps 100 recordings Mr. Cohen says he made of people during his tenure working for Mr. Trump, recordings that federal investigators are surely poring over as part of the 290,000 documents and files they seized in their April raid last year.
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According to Mr. Hernandez's lawyer, Mr. Lazzaro, after Mr. Hernandez announced in the interview that he was getting rid of his management team, the F.B.I. brought him in to warn him that agents had heard on wiretaps that some or all of the men, whom Mr. Lazzaro called "bad apples," intended to "super violate" Mr. Hernandez in retaliation.
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A 19-page opinion and order by James E. Boasberg, the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, also largely accepted changes the F.B.I. has said it will make to its process for seeking national-security wiretaps following a damning inspector general report about errors and omissions in applications to monitor the adviser, Carter Page.
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In a rare unclassified and public filing before the court that oversees wiretapping under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, the F.B.I. also said it would extend its overhaul to requests for orders permitting it to collect logs of its targets' communications and other business records — not just wiretaps of the contents of phone calls and emails.
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Among the problems: The F.B.I. never told the Justice Department, which thus never told the court that granted permission for the wiretaps, that Mr. Page had for years been providing information to the C.I.A. about his prior contacts with Russian officials — including an encounter cited in the application as a reason to be suspicious of him.
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Many Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee as well as others in Congress, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, are calling for Nunes' resignation, or recusal from any further role in the House committee's investigation of the Trump campaign's contacts with the Russians and the issues relating to the President's Twitter-announced claim that President Obama ordered wiretaps on Trump Tower.
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He recommended that the F.B.I. overhaul its FISA paperwork to ensure that it identifies any information that might reduce suspicions about a target; surface any reasons to be skeptical about an informant whose information is used to apply for a court order for a wiretap; and require agents and supervisors to reverify factual assertions that they use to pursue renewed permission for wiretaps.
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And Mueller's actual appointment was made by Deputy Attorney General Rod RosensteinRod RosensteinWhy the presumption of innocence doesn't apply to Trump McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing Rosenstein: Trump should focus on preventing people from 'becoming violent white supremacists' MORE, who we now know signed his name to at least one of the controversial wiretaps against a Trump campaign associate.
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Fox News: "Gingrich on Comey's firing: Trump had no choice"Newt Gingrich: You can't have the nation's leading law enforcement agency, with its thousands and thousands of agents, with its capacity to get court-ordered wiretaps—with all the things they can do to gather information, you can't have the top of that behaving capriciously and deciding whether or not he or she will release things.
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Sen. Menendez's trial — his co-defendant was the eye doctor Salomon Melgen — was fascinating not because of any scandalous revelations, but because of the lack thereof: There were no smoking-gun letters in which Menendez offers a governmental favor for rolls of cash, or wiretaps on which he is overheard offering a seat on a board in exchange for getting Melgen's son a job.
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Here's how it goes: U.S. intel officials used political opposition research (that relied on Russia) to justify wiretaps to investigate Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's Russia ties.
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Legal experts fear that these checks-and-balances could be weakened if orders are routinely granted for any phone, by any judge across the U.S. READ: Neil Gorsuch is shaping up to be an unlikely defender of your privacy Then again, the Supreme Court could also decide to nix allowing overbroad wiretaps as evidence, which could force law enforcement to adhere to the standard Congress set for them.
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Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus House Democrats unveil coronavirus economic response package Trump restricts travel from Europe to fight spread of coronavirus MORE (D-Calif.) said she is pushing for a reauthorization, not just an extension, of the three expiring provisions that deal with roving wiretaps, lone wolf surveillance and a controversial records program that allows the government to request phone metadata.
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Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote a classified 4-page memo which reportedly accuses the FBI of using the Steele dossier as a pretext to obtain FISA wiretaps against American citizens — and claims that the Mueller investigation is based entirely on the dossier.. January 2018 After voting to allow committee members access to the memo, conservative members of the House — spurred by media attention from pundits like Fox News' Sean Hannity — called for the release of the memo on Twitter with #ReleaseTheMemo.
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C.) and Mark WarnerMark Robert WarnerCongress eyes killing controversial surveillance program This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime Congress set for clash over surveillance reforms MORE (D-Va.), the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, respectively, introduced legislation late last year that would formally end the call records program, which has already been shuttered by the NSA, while providing an eight year reauthorization for two other provisions — one authorizing "roving" wiretaps and the other on "lone wolf" surveillance authority.
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A Justice Department watchdog is expected to strongly criticize FBI officials for being careless in their pursuit of obtaining wiretaps on a former Trump campaign aide during the start of the Russia probe, but not find they were acting with a bias toward President TrumpDonald John TrumpOvernight Defense: Ex-Navy secretary slams Trump in new op-ed | Impeachment tests Pompeo's ties with Trump | Mexican president rules out US 'intervention' against cartels EXCLUSIVE: 85033 Dem Andrew Yang releases tax returns Giuliani calls Trump to say he was joking about 'insurance policy' MORE, The New York Times reported Friday afternoon.
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Sen. Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.) is putting a hold on one of President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's picks to the Justice Department over concerns about the nominee's views on warrantless wiretaps and surveillance, The Daily Beast reported.
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In all, four wiretaps were approved by three different judges, and signed by FBI Director Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally YatesSally Caroline YatesSally Yates: Moral fiber of US being 'shredded by unapologetic racism' Trump: 'Impossible for me to know' extent of Flynn investigation Mueller didn't want Comey memos released out of fear Trump, others would change stories MORE, Acting Attorney General Dana Boente, Deputy Attorney General Rod RosensteinRod RosensteinWhy the presumption of innocence doesn't apply to Trump McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing Rosenstein: Trump should focus on preventing people from 'becoming violent white supremacists' MORE and FBI Deputy Director McCabe.
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