B Roll Sean Spicer insists that when Trump claimed there was wiretapping he was using quotes around "wiretapping" and didn't mean wiretapping unless he actually meant wiretapping.
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Speaking to Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, Donald Trump defended his insane "wiretapping" tweets by saying that they weren't really about wiretapping—wiretapping was a metaphor, or something.
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And White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Trump didn't mean wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping.
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Namely, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Trump wasn't referring to wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday the President wasn't referring to wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping.
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But so incidental collection would not be wiretapping of you, it would be wiretapping of… Who know what it is?
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The NSA is in charge of wiretapping operations internationally; wiretapping at home is typically handled by the FBI or local police.
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Further, while wiretapping in the criminal context involves only recording when the targets talk about illegal activity, foreign intelligence wiretapping is comprehensive.
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Goran Grujevski, who ran the secret police department conducting the wiretapping operations, was found guilty of destroying documents from the period when the wiretapping took place.
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" Then, recalling the NSA-Germany wiretapping scandal, the president added: "As far as wiretapping, you know, this past administration — at least we have something in common, perhaps.
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" At Thursday's press briefing White House Press Secretary/despised field trip chaperone Sean Spicer spent seven minutes reading news stories that seemed to fit the broad profile of "interesting things that aren't about wiretapping but are sort of about wiretapping if you use 'wiretapping' as a broad stand-in for 'surveillance.
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One, that "wiretapping" refers to surveillance generally, not exclusively wiretapping, and two, that forthcoming statements from the Justice Department (which neither intelligence committee collaborated with) will vindicate his boss's claims.
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Director Comey says no president can order a wiretapping operation.
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Amazingly, the intrigue of Hansen's wiretapping claims go even deeper.
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Merkel's response to Trump's wiretapping bullshit is v good pic.twitter.
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Wiretapping is generally illegal, with necessary exceptions for law enforcement.
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" "The president said that there was wiretapping at Trump Tower.
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President, any proof on the wiretapping?" yelled a reporter. "Mr.
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Justice Brandeis's dissent objected to warrantless wiretapping by the government.
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And knowingly selling illegal wiretapping tools is a federal crime.
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What about wiretapping Michael Flynn's calls with the Russian ambassador?
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He also called on Congress to investigate the alleged wiretapping.
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"When I say wiretapping, those words were in quotes … because wiretapping is pretty old-fashioned stuff — but that really covers surveillance and many other things," Trump told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday.
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There was no wiretapping It did not take long for the hearing to pour cold water on Trump's repeated claims, through tweets, that former President Barack Obama somehow ordered wiretapping and surveillance of Trump Tower.
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But Trump's wild weekend wiretapping accusations against his predecessor weakened him.
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No proof of any wiretapping of then candidate Trump was offered.
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It was, after all, an affirmative mandate to make wiretapping easier.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee officially dismissed Trump's wiretapping accusations against Obama.
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Trump did not back down from the wiretapping accusation on Friday.
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Lindsey Graham speaks on Trump accusing Obama of illegal wiretapping pic.twitter.
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"We don't have any evidence that [wiretapping] took place," Nunes said.
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FBI chief testifies on wiretapping, alleged Russian interference in US election.
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The former president's office pushed back forcefully against the wiretapping allegations.
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MORE ordered wiretapping of Trump Tower just before the November election.
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About voter fraud, about wiretapping, his repeated lies about those issues.
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MORE had engaged in "wiretapping" of Trump Tower before the elections.
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The entire news-consuming public dove into a wiretapping rabbit hole.
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He said he has received "sufficient" responses about the wiretapping claim.
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The F.B.I. followed the laws in wiretapping the former Trump adviser.
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MORE ordered a wiretapping of Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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Spying on communications can break statutes on wiretapping or computer crime.
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Because the mention of wiretapping in the tweet (in reality, just one of the mentions in a series of tweets) fell between quotation marks, he argued, it could mean many things, not necessarily a literal wiretapping.
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Through this fish-eye, Trump's wiretapping tweets don't look surprising at all.
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He said that "no president could" unilaterally order that kind of wiretapping.
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The claim: That British intelligence services helped with the alleged wiretapping operation.
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Jim McDermott of Washington state, for breaking wiretapping laws back in 1998.
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Spicer told reporters that Trump still (even now!) believes that wiretapping happened.
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Nunes said Wednesday that Trump's wiretapping claim, if taken literally, is wrong.
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MORE of wiretapping Trump Tower, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski said Tuesday morning.
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So far, congressional investigators have not seen evidence supporting Trump's wiretapping claim.
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MORE if no evidence is produced to back up Trump's wiretapping claims.
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"wiretapping" in quotes, it covers a range of surveillance types—that's like
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Apparently eager to help the President out with the wiretapping nonsense, Rep.
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Alexa, these people say, is a spy hiding in a wiretapping device.
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But sometimes, when wires weren't available, wiretapping also bore some bodily risk.
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Devin Nunes had not seen evidence to substantiate President Trump's wiretapping claims.
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Democrats sought to highlight such links, and shoot down Trump's wiretapping claim.
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Under wiretapping or eavesdropping laws, 11 states require that all parties consent.
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The wiretapping claim was the most abnormal event to date, they said.
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That stands in contrast to how wiretapping works in ordinary criminal law.
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Mr. Hoover used wiretapping to gather intelligence — but Congress had outlawed it.
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Imagine, for example, that the American government is wiretapping Ivan the Russian.
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Those purchases helped investigators, who were already wiretapping him, catch Mr. Durham.
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In the interview, Sanders said that Trump simply wanted to find out if there was evidence of wiretapping by the Obama administration — which Raddatz then said was inaccurate, as Trump stated that Obama engaged in wiretapping as fact.
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The wiretapping came under the authority of two secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court orders: following the beginning of the FBI's investigation into Manafort in 2014, then another that allowed the wiretapping to continue until early 2017, CNN reported.
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He specifically accused the outgoing president of ordering wiretapping of the incoming president.
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The FBI may or may not be wiretapping Echo devices in the meantime.
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"You've got Russia, you've got wiretapping — " she was saying when Spicer interrupted her.
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"I see no indication that that's true," Cole said of the wiretapping charge.
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I said, wait a minute, there's a lot of wiretapping being talked about.
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I said, 'Wait a minute; there's a lot of wiretapping being talked about.
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" Disconnect over Trump's wiretapping claims: Trump this AM: "I don't stand by anything.
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Because a wiretapping is, you know, today it is different than wire tapping.
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Additionally, senators will likely ask Clapper about his comments concerning Trump's wiretapping claims.
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Stone started by jumping on the wiretapping bandwagon against former President Barack Obama.
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MORE ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower in New York City last year.
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Last weekend, he accused Obama of illegally wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign.
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Obama through a spokesperson denied that he ordered any wiretapping of Trump Tower.
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Congress enacted statutes applying these Fourth Amendment principles in the context of wiretapping.
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Mr. Comey believed parts of the warrantless wiretapping program might have been illegal.
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The Times also said Rosenstein had discussed wiretapping Trump in the White House.
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Federal and state wiretapping laws, he said, prohibit him from releasing the tapes.
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As for the wiretapping claims ... the FBI Director has scoffed at the allegations.
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He then accused Mr. Obama of illegally wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign.
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The wiretapping has been discussed in The New York Times, BBC, Fox News.
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You mean, I call up my lawyer and the government is wiretapping him?
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And the New York Times had a front-page story, which they actually reduced, they took it, they took it the word wiretapping out of the title, but its first story in the front page of the paper was wiretapping.
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Trump has previously claimed, without evidence, that President Barack Obama was wiretapping his campaign.
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After Nunes' press conference, Trump said he felt "somewhat" vindicated about his wiretapping tweets.
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Obama, through a spokesman, denied that he or any White House official ordered wiretapping.
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"6900 reasons to take Trump's wiretapping claims at his word ... for now" https://t.
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" Flashback: These are Trump's tweets from March 4 accusing Obama of wiretapping him. "Terrible!
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Nunes and others have said there is no evidence backing up the wiretapping claim.
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Nunes said on Tuesday he had seen no evidence to support Trump's wiretapping allegation.
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Section 702 was enacted in 2008 to legalize George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program.
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Palomino is also under investigation for alleged illicit enrichment and illegally wiretapping journalists' telephones.
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Trump over the weekend accused Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower before the presidential election.
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"85033 reasons to take Trump's wiretapping claims at his word ... for now" https://t.
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Hacking could violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or perhaps even wiretapping legislation.
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Digital monitoring of a spouse or partner can constitute illegal stalking, wiretapping or hacking.
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The judges also ignored the Sharif family's complaints of witness harassment and illegal wiretapping.
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Network operators are often subject to wiretapping and other "lawful interception" demands by governments.
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President Trump stood by his wiretapping claim at a news conference with Angela Merkel.
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Neither article claimed that Mr. Trump or his associates were the target of wiretapping.
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The White House has reportedly apologized to Britain over debunked Trump Tower wiretapping accusations
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In its front-page article on Monday rebutting Trump's wiretapping claims, the Times spent three paragraphs differentiating its reporting on investigations into the Trump-Russia connections from the Trump administration's claims that his campaign may have been the subject of illegal wiretapping.
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Government secrecy about Internet wiretapping has prevented judges from adjudicating the issues in open court.
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Shortly after that, Congress enacted Title III, which governs procedures for wiretapping and electronic surveillance.
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President Donald Trump's wiretapping accusation hits a dramatic climax at FBI Director James Comey's hearing.
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Comey said that no president could order a wiretapping operation against a specific American citizen.
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RELATED: Trump's wiretapping accusation comes to a head at Comey hearing Republican Committee Chairman Rep.
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The man was charged with 26 counts of computer hacking, aggravated identity theft and wiretapping.
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What, in effect, is the difference between gathering this data and wide-scale, unrestricted wiretapping?
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CALEA forced telephone companies to design their networks to better enable wiretapping by law enforcement.
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Trump falsely claimed Obama committed the criminal act of wiretapping Trump's phones before the election.
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Warrantless wiretapping is another issue that is directly impacted by the existence of a filibuster.
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Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) says President Trump is lying about former President Obama wiretapping him.
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The Washington Post: Rosenstein faces congressional confrontation amid new claim he seriously suggested wiretapping Trump.
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Furthermore, while they refuted the president's accusations of wiretapping, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, Rep.
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At the time, wiretapping was illegal but President Franklin Roosevelt secretly authorized its use anyway.
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" But, she added, "I wish to God he had never tweeted about Obama wiretapping him.
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Much of the report focused on the documents associated with the wiretapping of Mr. Page.
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Both types of wiretapping are ordered by federal judges, after applications from the Justice Department.
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He urged reporters to look closely at it, saying it "very clearly" was about wiretapping.
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It involves allegations of illegal wiretapping, cover-ups, sex addiction, drunk-driving cops, and blackmail.
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And when the Supreme Court used speech protections to say that a criminal wiretapping act could not be enforced against a radio commentator who aired intercepted calls (even though the criminal wiretapping act was otherwise valid and applicable), that was also an exemption, too.
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Federal wiretapping laws require traditional phone carriers to make their data accessible to law enforcement agencies.
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But you'll also probably hear about everything from NSA wiretapping to net neutrality to the environment.
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So have the attempted distractions, chiefly Mr Trump's debunked ravings about Mr Obama wiretapping Trump Tower.
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Back in 1940, he was hauled before a Senate committee in Washington that was investigating wiretapping.
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That agreement sought to end a political crisis that erupted last February over a wiretapping scandal.
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The appreciation for realism is clear in how the film treats the difficult issue of wiretapping.
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It's a trend we first noticed in March, when Trump defended his wiretapping accusation on Fox.
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Todd presses him on whether court-ordered wiretapping was being done, leading to this remarkable exchange:
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It is a request to unlock a specific device, akin to wiretapping a single phone line.
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According to The Times, the encryption built into WhatsApp has stymied Justice Department attempts at wiretapping.
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But he's been far less likely to invoke wiretapping or discuss Nunes or Manafort by name.
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Groups like Black Lives Matter could be targeted for FBI harassment, and monitored with warrantless wiretapping.
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He also took to Twitter: Representatives of the Obama administration have denied the allegations of wiretapping.
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Read this Q&A between Trump & Tucker Carlson over where Trump got his wiretapping claims from.
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We discussed [SPOILERS, obvs] physical security, interrogation, vishing, ZRTP keywords, wiretapping, wiping phone data and more.
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To summarize: Top Republicans on Capitol Hill say there's no evidence to support Trump's wiretapping allegation.
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In March 2017, Trump sent a tweet accusing Obama of wiretapping his phones in Trump Tower.
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They also fabricated evidence, engaged in illegal wiretapping and leaked government documents to smear their opponents.
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Ultimately the charges against Ellsberg were dismissed after evidence of unlawful wiretapping of Ellsberg was uncovered.
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FBI Director James Comey told Congress he had seen no evidence to support the wiretapping claim.
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On Thursday, the heads of the Senate Intelligence Committee flatly said Trump's wiretapping claims were baseless.
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" The letter alleges he witnessed illegal wiretapping and an extensive effort to "unlawfully obtain trade secrets.
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Mike Rogers also said he has no evidence that the NSA was involved in any wiretapping.
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MORE, of wiretapping his phones, causing resources to be used to disprove the nonsensical claim. 10.
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Trump, without evidence, on March 4 accused Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower before the November election.
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Gaetz said if "wiretapping political opponents is a political offense ... a different president" should be impeached.
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Also, two senior White House officials walked back Mr. Trump's unsubstantiated wiretapping accusation against President Obama.
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The aftershocks will propel the Trump wiretapping story back to the top of the political conversation.
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"The New York Times had a front-page story, which they actually reduced, they took it, they took it the word wiretapping out of the title, but its first story in the front page of the paper was wiretapping," Mr. Trump said, according to the Time article.
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He did not address the wiretapping claim nor WikiLeaks' recent claim that it obtained internal CIA documents.
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But the accusations about the former president wiretapping, that's a serious allegation that you make about somebody.
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Trump's early morning frenzy about President Obama wiretapping Trump Tower has now occupied the past two weeks.
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The heads of both the NSA and the FBI categorically denied that any such wiretapping had occurred.
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Trump's use of the word "wiretapping ... spans a whole host of surveillance types of options," Spicer says.
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Scaramucci seems to be connecting Tripp's wiretapping espionage to Lizza's explosive New Yorker article from late July.
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That is different that the president wiretapping you which would be a crime outside of a court.
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The White House quickly embraced Nunes' revelations and the president said they "somewhat" validated his wiretapping allegations.
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With help from J. Edgar Hoover, he starting wiretapping members of his own National Security Council staff.
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Incidental surveillance may explain why wiretapping was in quotes, but not why Obama is explicitly being blamed.
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Trump has faced harsh criticism for accusing the Obama administration of wiretapping him without citing any evidence.
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Nevertheless, Russia and wiretapping filled the headlines at the expense of issues that matter to American voters.
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Three numbers saved on the phone were also intercepted during the wiretapping of Mered's communications in 2014.
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Later, after Trump levied his wiretapping charge, top aides to the two men spoke over the phone.
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"As far as wiretapping...by this past administration, at least we have something in common," Trump said.
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Tripp received immunity from prosecution for illegal wiretapping when she handed over the taped conversations to Starr.
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In all, it alleges a dozen crimes, from racketeering and conspiracy to wiretapping and trade secrets violations.
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First, Trump's wiretapping charge was about Trump Tower, not the White House (a point Langer later corrected).
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He left after controversies surrounding alleged politically motivated firing of U.S. attorneys and a warrantless wiretapping system.
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But rather than that story dominating the conversation, everybody spent weeks talking about the phone wiretapping allegations.
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The wiretapping of Mr. Page as part of the Russia investigation has been a political flash point.
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We now know the FBI used the dossier, in part, to justify wiretapping a former Trump adviser.
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The second who faced impeachment covered up the wiretapping and break-in at the opposing party's headquarters.
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On the accusation of wiretapping, Comey did not even provide a fig leaf for the White House.
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The president also walked out of a CBS interview after being pressed about his false wiretapping claim.
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In March, the president fired off a tweet accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower.
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John Kosich, WEWS: The President has alleged that the former President committed a felony in wiretapping Trump Tower.
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Comey also said that it would be impossible for any president to order a wiretapping operation against anyone.
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The New York Times first reported that the FBI asked the Justice Department to refute Trump's wiretapping claim.
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The senators statement also addresses Trump's more recent statement that he was not merely speaking about wiretapping specifically.
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His most recent early tirade: four tweets about President Obama supposedly wiretapping his phone at 6:35 a.m.
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Wiretapping Trump's baseless claims that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower before the election just crossed the pond.
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Reporters saw him mid-morning speaking briefly with community bank CEOs, but he didn't address the wiretapping claims.
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What was the basis of his conclusion that his predecessor had broken the law by wiretapping Trump Tower?
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"I broke the Manafort wiretapping story on @Medium, and multiple others, all fully sourced and confirmed," he wrote.
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Trump appeared to back away from his accusation of wiretapping in a Fox News interview on Wednesday night.
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The president also, without evidence, accused Obama of wiretapping his office in Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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In a tweet, Trump explosively accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping his phones during the 2016 campaign.
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"On wiretapping by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps," Trump said to Merkel.
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Nunes and Schiff both said last week that they did not have evidence to support the wiretapping accusation.
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It was in quotes, like "wiretapping," so who knows what next week in Trumpland is going to bring?
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Add Joe Biden to the list of people who have shot down President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated wiretapping claim.
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Meanwhile, Senator Marco Rubio said Sunday he had no knowledge of any such wiretapping activity during the campaign.
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The president's wiretapping accusation followed increasing pressure on his administration about contacts between his top advisors and Moscow.
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"This is McCarthyism!" he exclaimed in March, while accusing Barack Obama of wiretapping the phones in Trump Tower.
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Instead, buried deep beneath the furors over Russia, health care and presidential "wiretapping," it hardly broke at all.
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Without offering evidence, Trump earlier this month accused Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower before the November presidential election.
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Trump defended the claim to Time magazine, arguing that he might have meant surveillance rather than technical wiretapping.
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Furthermore, Nixon had clearly presided over various infractions of the Constitution—illegal wiretapping, break-ins, a cover-up.
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When French officials were notified about the Greek traffic stop, they were already wiretapping his friends and relatives.
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The House Intelligence Committee, which launched an investigation into the matter, also found no evidence the wiretapping happened.
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There's another reason so many may believe in the wiretapping claim: It's been in the news a lot.
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Mr. Grey was also known for surviving the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping scandal that swept across Hollywood in 2006.
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Napolitano reportedly directed the New York Times to call Johnson after facing skepticism regarding his U.K. wiretapping claim.
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Congress enacted FISA in 1978 to regulate national security wiretapping after scandals from the J. Edgar Hoover era.
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Because of how the internet works, that spying works differently from traditional phone wiretapping, raising novel legal issues.
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Christopher Chaney pleaded guilty to accessing protected computers without authorization, damaging protected computers, wiretapping and aggravated identity theft.
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The wiretapping allegations could well become part of a partisan narrative that is too powerful to be dispelled.
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The Trump administration, meanwhile, has been stumping hard for a clean, permanent reauthorization of the NSA wiretapping program.
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To the casual listener, he was insinuating that Trump's wiretapping charges weren't so very far from the mark.
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The Court closely examined and then upheld New York legislation that carefully regulated the issuance of a special kind of warrant to allow wiretapping, if the government could show a judge the reasonableness of the intrusion in a way that took account of the particular ways that wiretapping invades privacy.
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Pro-CPP websites, meanwhile, have leaked recordings of senior CNRP members' phone calls, fuelling suspicions of state-backed wiretapping.
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That led to the wiretapping of Mr. Cornejo's phone and the taping of conversations — like the one on Jan.
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The wiretapping story wasn't the only one Trump ran with and repeated to millions of people across the country.
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That really covers -- because wiretapping is pretty old-fashioned stuff -- but that really covers surveillance and many other things.
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MARCH 15: Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Intelligence Committee say they have seen no evidence of wiretapping.
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Long before Snowden, in 2002 Binney reported details about the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program to a House Intelligence Committee.
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Four of the six counts stem from an anti-wiretapping statute, the applicability of which, Kerr says, is questionable.
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Those orders require a higher standard than a warrant, and without such an order, any wiretapping is expressly illegal.
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That statement came just after key senators said Thursday they did not have evidence to support Trump's wiretapping accusation.
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Trump's administration offered a bunch of explanations for Trump's wiretapping allegations, none of which appeared to square with reality.
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On the wiretapping Trump Tower allegation, he simply can't retreat from the idea that Obama was spying on him.
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" On accusing President Obama of wiretapping: "I'm a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right.
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"We don't have any evidence that that [wiretapping] took place," Republican House Intelligence chairman David Nunes said last week.
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The US Department of Justice unsealed an indictment that accuses him of six counts of hacking and wiretapping crimes.
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Nowhere in the Times article that Trump likely referenced does it say Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower.
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The former New York City Mayor added that wiretapping Cohen's phone would amount to "gross misconduct" by the government.
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Comey has already made clear that he wants senior Justice Department officials to publicly repudiate Trump's unfounded wiretapping claims.
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A plurality of voters — 40 percent — say Congress is spending too much time on Russia and Trump's wiretapping claims.
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For weeks, the media has hammered President Trump over his sensational tweets accusing President Obama of "wiretapping" Trump Tower.
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But as every new twist of the Trump wiretapping scandal has shown, that type of assurance can quickly change.
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The "wiretapping" spin In March 2017, Trump was roundly ridiculed for saying that the Obama administration "wiretapped" his campaign.
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Since Congress enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978, no such wiretapping application materials have been made public.
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Mr. Buttigieg has maintained the demotion was necessary because Mr. Boykins was the subject of a federal wiretapping investigation.
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Democrats accused Trump of making the wiretapping claim to try to distract from controversy about possible links to Russia.
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He has said he can't release the tapes because of federal and state wiretapping laws and an ongoing lawsuit.
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Then-Director of National Intelligence James ClapperJames Robert ClapperWas President Trump spied on as part of Carter Page wiretapping?
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In 2011, Mijangos was convicted of computer hacking and wiretapping, for which he is serving a six-year sentence.
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Clinton's emails, the Russia investigation, leaks to the news media and the use of wiretapping as an investigative tool.
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After President Trump accused his predecessor in March of wiretapping him, James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, was flabbergasted.
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Phillip Durachinsky was indicted on 16 counts for wiretapping, identity theft, producing child pornography, and other computer fraud violations.
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But the Trump team doubled down, writing off media reports and insisting that evidence of wiretapping would soon surface.
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Early on Saturday, March 4, the president accused Mr. Obama on Twitter of illegally wiretapping Trump Tower in Manhattan.
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Trump provided no evidence when, earlier this month, he accused Obama of wiretapping him during the 2016 election campaign.
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Wade, upheld warrantless wiretapping, blew up campaign finance restrictions, overturned DC's handgun ban, and weakened the Voting Rights Act.
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In the past few days alone, White House spokesperson Sean Spicer used actual air quotes to suggest Trump hadn't literally been talking about wiretapping even though the president's own tweets had literally been talking about wiretapping, while Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway hinted that the real culprits were tiny cameras hidden inside microwave ovens.
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As long as that cycle exists, the wiretapping claim won't be the last online conspiracy theory to become state-sanctioned.
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Quick review: There was an investigation into the situation after Trump's first wiretapping tweet allegation, but it didn't prove anything.
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CNN reporter Jim Acosta got into a heated argument with Spicer when Spicer said Trump stands by his wiretapping claims.
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Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, told CNN's Manu Raju that Obama is owed an apology for Trump's "reckless" comment on wiretapping.
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But as mentioned above, the Bush administration engaged in surveillance without even FISA approvals -- what has been termed warrantless wiretapping.
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The hearing, put more plainly, was a catastrophe for Trump, who has been lying about the purported wiretapping for weeks.
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As for Donald Trump's claims President Obama was wiretapping him ... Comey said the Bureau has "no information" to support that.
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Spicer asserts that the president wants Congress to separately look into the wiretapping allegation to "add credibility" to Trump's assertion.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said "No I have not," when asked if he has seen any evidence of wiretapping.
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But the effort stumbled as every key congressional figure associated with intelligence oversight said there was no evidence of wiretapping.
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I read in, I think it was January 20, a New York Times article where they were talking about wiretapping.
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Garzon was barred from the bench in 2012 for illegal wiretapping and no longer practises as a judge in Spain.
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I read in, I think it was January 20 a "New York Times" article where they were talking about wiretapping.
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And I know that the guy dozing off on the bench, next to the dog, is wiretapping me, tailing me.
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Nunes has apologized to fellow committee members for going to the White House with information about wiretapping without consulting them.
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" More: "Last weekend, President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping in Trump Tower during the presidential election.
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Graham and Whitehouse formally request DOJ and FBI provide any documents related to wiretapping allegations made by Pres. Trump. pic.twitter.
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Instead, it actually "defended Spicer's mention of wiretapping" after fielding complaints from across the pond, per the NYT's Julie Davis.
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Vice President Pence refused to answer Wednesday when asked if he believes President Trump's wiretapping claim against former President Obama.
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FBI Director James Comey, who reportedly asked the Justice Department to publicly reject Trump's wiretapping accusation, is invited to testify.
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The exchanges over wiretapping dominated a summit with Merkel that was never more than cordial and often bordering on chilly.
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Two weeks ago, the special prosecutor accused high-level Interior Ministry officials of destroying evidence to impede the wiretapping probe.
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The Friday filing marked the Justice Department's first official denial of the substance of Trump's wiretapping allegations earlier this year.
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He reportedly offered to resign, along with Comey and Mueller, if President George W. Bush reauthorized a controversial wiretapping program.
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Trump last month accused the Obama administration of wiretapping Trump Tower in New York City during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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"As far as wiretapping, I guess, by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps," Trump said.
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Former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake was suspected in 2100 of revealing information about the agency's warrantless wiretapping program.
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Alberto R. Gonzales took home documents about the nation's warrantless wiretapping program home with him while he was attorney general.
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No such wiretapping application materials apparently have become public since Congress first enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978.
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While Nunes reportedly apologized, his comments put a new spin on Trump's so-far unproven claims of Obama wiretapping him.
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But such surveillance would be vastly different than the type of direct wiretapping Trump raised in his tweetstorm Saturday morning.
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"There is a significant hurdle to wiretapping a person in the United States under either of these authorities," Nojeim said.
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Trump tried his hand at the change-the-subject game with his unsupported claim that President Obama was wiretapping him.
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"The president was very clear in his tweet that it was, you know, 'wiretapping,' " Mr. Spicer said, using air quotes.
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The FISA court approved surveillance and wiretapping for nearly a year, approving warrants sought by Obama and Trump administration officials.
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That's why they're putting up with all your craziness about Russia and wiretapping and unending lies and rattling our allies.
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None of the incidents he mentioned, however, are parallel to Mr. Trump's accusations of illegal wiretapping ordered by Mr. Obama.
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Dickerson asked if the president stood by his assertion that Obama was "sick" and "bad" for allegedly wiretapping Trump Tower.
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In answering the question about the Trump tweets alleging wiretapping, he stressed that presidents — namely Obama -- can no longer order surveillance.
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Also at that hearing, Comey said he had seen no evidence so far of the specific allegation of wiretapping Trump Tower.
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A new premier might be found who is not tarred by the wiretapping scandal, such as Nikola Poposki, the foreign minister.
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House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes embarrassed himself but pleased Trump with a goofy effort to back up Trump's wiretapping claims.
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Republican Representative Devin Nunes, who leads the House intelligence panel, said after receiving the material, he saw no evidence of wiretapping.
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Those conditions were imposed in the July 2015 agreement, which sought to end a political crisis prompted by a wiretapping scandal.
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US officials insist that Huawei could bow to China's clout and secretly conduct espionage and wiretapping to advance the country's agenda.
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"As far as wiretapping, I guess, by this past administration, at least we have something in common perhaps," Trump told Merkel.
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That's when Mitnick went on the run, at various points eluding authorities by hacking their communication network and wiretapping their phones.
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Mueller also was part of another famous incident with Comey -- a dramatic 2004 dispute over the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.
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Nunes said on Monday his panel has not ruled out other spying methods targeting Trump or his 2016 campaign besides wiretapping.
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Three weeks ago, one of the sources said, police raided eSurv's office and seized all computers on suspicion of illegal wiretapping.
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The House Select Committee on Intelligence has asked that the White House provide any evidence of the alleged wiretapping by Monday.
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But the country, which has about 2.1 million people, has been agitated by a wiretapping scandal that emerged early last year.
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Without it, she feared, the F.B.I. could turn on her husband at any point and accuse him of hacking and wiretapping.
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One case being reviewed includes the district attorney's wiretapping of a detective's phone in 2014, according to two of the people.
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The Constitution allows the government to invade our privacy by, say, wiretapping our telephones, for law enforcement purposes in limited circumstances.
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Consider Gabriel Schoenfeld, who has called for the prosecution of The Times for publishing information about a program of warrantless wiretapping.
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I asked Nunes as he was heading into read DOJ letter if he thought it would back up Trump's wiretapping claim.
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The dragnet-surveillance operation was spying on American citizens using a combination of wiretapping and mass-data collection through the internet.
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Mr. Barr has stepped in to float the idea that he could tighten many rules on F.B.I. wiretapping on his own.
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It does not matter the topic — birtherism, wiretapping, crowd size — as long as a consistent level of fibbing is energetically deployed.
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Mr. Pellicano, above, a notorious private eye for the stars, spent 15 years in prison for illegal wiretapping and other crimes.
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Committee Democrats also sought to subpoena documents related to Mr. Kavanaugh's knowledge of Bush-era enhanced interrogation and warrantless wiretapping policies.
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Mr. Chertoff pushed for additional wiretapping and surveillance powers from Congress both as a top prosecutor and as Homeland Security secretary.
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"There was no illegal wiretapping, there were no informants inserted into the campaign, there was no 'spying' on the Trump campaign."
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Orenstein also found that Apple was largely exempt from complying with such requests by a 1994 law that updated wiretapping laws.
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Nor would the government's wiretapping of private citizens, or the investigations of a potential bridge between the Trump team and Moscow.
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Trump has accused the FBI, including Comey, of investigating his campaign and wiretapping one of his campaign advisers for political reasons.
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Trump has repeatedly accused Barack Obama of wiretapping his phones, and Comey explained there is "no information that supports" the claim.
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In a series of early-morning Twitter messages, Mr. Trump accused Mr. Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower before the presidential election.
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Trump also sought to justify press secretary Sean Spicer's attempt to implicate the British spy agency GCHQ in the nonexistent wiretapping.
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"Calm down," Spicer once told a journalist who was asking him questions about Trump's claims of wiretapping during the 2016 elections.
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Yet this didn't stop Trump from claiming, when asked by reporters later, that Nunes's disclosures "somewhat" vindicated his wiretapping claims. Rep.
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The White House is trying to clean up its mess after UK intel slaps down wiretapping allegations The White House is trying to clean up its mess after UK intel slaps down wiretapping allegations The White House has apologized to British intelligence officials after alleging that the U.K. security agency wiretapped Donald Trump during the presidential campaign.
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There is no evidence to support the wiretapping claim and Obama's spokesman, along with former members of his administration, have denied it.
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That became clear in the latest chapter in the bizarre story of Trump's claim that Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower.
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Just under two weeks later, in an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson, Trump appeared to walk back his original wiretapping allegations.
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The FBI, for one, would neither confirm nor deny wiretapping Amazon Echo devices when Gizmodo asked the agency about it last year.
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Trump has asked for Congress to investigate, and the same committee looking into the Russian ties will add the wiretapping claim. Rep.
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Comey also said there's no evidence to back up Trump's allegations of Obama wiretapping, adding that "no president" could order a wiretap.
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Spicer said he would let Comey speak for himself when it comes to his potential concerns about Trump's allegations of wiretapping. Sen.
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The Republican president, without providing evidence, has accused his predecessor, Democrat Barack Obama, of wiretapping him near the end of the campaign.
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America extradited Ricardo Martinelli, a former president of Panama, to his home country to face trial on charges of corruption and wiretapping.
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The mayor said he did not know and had never listened to the tapes because they may have violated federal wiretapping laws.
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Even telcos, implicated in wiretapping and turning over Americans' phone records, began to publish their figures to try to rebuild their reputations.
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But nowhere in the article that Trump seemed to reference does the Times report that Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower.
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" Wiretapping (March 4): "I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks.
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But Spicer also referenced a Fox News report that all of this alleged wiretapping might have been run through British intelligence services.
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Big Data, NSA wiretapping, social media, camera phones, credit scores, criminal records, drones—we watch and watch, and record our every move.
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Her comments caused a storm online, and during her appearances on multiple morning shows today she was questioned about the wiretapping claims.
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Reporters received their latest tongue-lashing by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer recently, after pressing him on the President's wiretapping claims.
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Take, for example, Trump's March 4 Twitter volley, accusing his predecessor — seemingly out of nowhere — of wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign.
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"Yesterday on Fox he was still trying to worm his way out of the lie about wiretapping on that word," Chailan said.
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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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United States, the Supreme Court ruled that wiretapping didn't require a warrant at a time when telephone technology was still relatively new.
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But both hacked companies have also marketed their tools to spy on spouses or partners, which could violate hacking and wiretapping laws.
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"As far as wiretapping, I guess by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps," he said to Merkel.
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Flashback: Trump has previously accused Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower during the election, a claim the White House walked back. http://bit.
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On March 213, President Trump accuses former President Obama of wiretapping him during the campaign in Trump Tower in New York City.
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In December 2005, The Times published an article by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau revealing the warrantless wiretapping component of the program.
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Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, rejected Mr. Trump's insinuation that the wiretapping of Mr. Page equated to surveillance of the campaign.
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So given that Trump's assertion seems plausible, and Republicans are probably likely to consider him a credible source, the "wiretapping" claim sticks.
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In November 2000, the bureau, with the permission of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, began wiretapping Dr. King's home and office telephones.
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In March 2017, Mr. Trump accused the F.B.I. and Obama administration in a tweet of illegally wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign.
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He wrote the notes shortly after briefing top members of Congress about a warrantless wiretapping program he had a role in authorizing.
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With less than a week to go before the Intelligence Committee hearings neither Nunes nor Schiff have seen any evidence of wiretapping.
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Fact Check Within 24 hours, President Trump repeated several false or misleading claims about wiretapping, Hillary Clinton and his own chief strategist.
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In Michigan, a two-party consent state, in order to violate that state's wiretapping law, a person must "willfully" intercept the communication.
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In 2007, he told Congress about a now-famous showdown with senior White House officials over the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.
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The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday is circulating a hotly-anticipated proposal to reform the National Security Agency's controversial warrantless wiretapping program.
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Mr. Trump did put the word in quotes in two of his tweets, but explicitly accused Mr. Obama of wiretapping his phones.
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In Taiwan, the former president, Ma Ying-jeou, above, was indicted over the handling of classified information in a 133 wiretapping case.
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Mr. Sessions, one of the Senate's most conservative members, defended Mr. Bush's authority to conduct wiretapping without a warrant after the Sept.
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On Saturday, the Trump administration released records at the center of a partisan clash over the wiretapping of a former campaign aide.
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Democrats have accused the White House of "laundering" intelligence through the committee in order to provide justification for the president's wiretapping claims.
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The cases are important because Internet technology works differently from the telephone technology for which wiretapping rules were developed and tested in court.
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In less than a day, a Breitbart story accusing the Obama administration of wiretapping Trump Tower became, via tweet, a presidentially asserted fact.
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Time and again, Trump's pet outlets find a way to rationalize the president's claims, even claims as apparently baseless as the wiretapping conspiracy.
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So far, the Justice Department has not said anything in reaction to Trump's tweets on Saturday, in which he made the wiretapping allegations.
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Then he shot down Trump's unsubstantiated claim that President Obama had ordered wiretapping at Trump Tower, a stinging rebuke of a sitting president.
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What we do know: This new information does not validate Trump's wiretapping tweets as he specifically mentioned Obama administration surveillance of Trump Tower.
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Two years ago the country was thrown into a political turmoil over a wiretapping scandal that brought down nationalist prime minister Nikola Gruevski.
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I watched your friend Bret Baier the day previous where he was talking about certain very complex sets of things happening, and wiretapping.
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In January 2015, police detained 23 of its employees in an investigation into allegations of illegal wiretapping targeting Erdogan and other top officials.
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As Swift likely had a reasonable expectation that the call would be private, West would also be in violation of the wiretapping law.
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There's a provision in the wiretapping law that says it's actually a criminal offence for police to reveal the existence of a wiretap.
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Plus, it would violate wiretapping laws, and Facebook really doesn't need to go that far to confirm what it already knows about us.
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Arguably the documentary series' most captivating and controversial figure, Sheela also allegedly ordered multiple incidents of wiretapping, one arson, and several attempted murders.
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In a Saturday morning tweetstorm last month, Trump accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, of wiretapping the phones at Trump Tower before the election.
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The two Macedonians, aged 51 and 35, are accused of destroying machines used in wiretapping, a police official said on condition of anonymity.
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The Sun Chronicle reports that 48-year-old Darin McNeil pleaded not guilty to wiretapping and attempting to commit a sexual surveillance wiretap.
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" Trump also highlighted the tweets in which the word "wiretapping" was used in quotes, saying, "That really covers surveillance and many other things.
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MORE ordered wiretapping of Trump Tower during his presidential bid, calling it McCarthyism and comparing it to President Richard Nixon's role in Watergate.
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The Trump administration on Monday requested more time to comply with a House Intelligence Committee request for evidence substantiating Trump's claim of wiretapping.
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Trump, a Republican, has said he "inherited a mess" and accused Obama in March, without providing evidence, of wiretapping his 2016 presidential campaign.
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Leaders of the House Intelligence Committee have asked the Justice Department for evidence — including applications, orders, or warrants — related to Trump's wiretapping claims.
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Comey also refused to "characterize" Trump's tweets earlier this month first accusing Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower in New York City in 2016.
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Her most recent shut-down came after Trump's latest Twitter rant, in which he accused Barack Obama of wiretapping him during his campaign.
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Trump made the wiretapping accusation in a series of early morning tweets on Saturday amid expanding scrutiny of his campaign's ties to Russia.
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Most to the point: How should reporters, knowing that the initial wiretapping accusation is meritless, treat Trump's ensuing efforts to muddy the waters?
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Last year, the president also shocked Washington by accusing former President Obama, without evidence, of wiretapping Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election.
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Trump, who had accused then-President Obama of wiretapping his phones during his candidacy, said he felt "somewhat" vindicated by what Nunes found.
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Cuomo and Grassley then sparred over links between Trump's wiretapping allegations and possible collusion between the president's election campaign and Russia last year.
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The FISA wiretapping was part of an effort to understand the behaviors of a foreign power by monitoring one of its suspected agents.
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President Trump's administration asked Monday for more time to comply with a House Intelligence Committee request for evidence substantiating Trump's claim of wiretapping.
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"[Trump] continues to go down a road where nobody is going to believe him," Waters said on MSNBC while discussing Trump's wiretapping allegations.
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President Trump feels that his accusations of wiretapping by former President Obama have been "proven very strongly," according to a new CBS interview.
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And Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, rejected Mr. Trump's insinuation that the wiretapping of Mr. Page equated to surveillance of the campaign.
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The implication is that judges who approved the wiretapping did not know it might be biased and were thus misled about its credibility.
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" That's how President Donald Trump reacted to a question about his still unsubstantiated wiretapping claims during an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation.
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Little more than a month after taking office, Mr. Trump accused Mr. Obama and the F.B.I. on Twitter of illegally wiretapping Trump Tower.
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Two years ago, a wiretapping scandal erupted after secret recordings caught top government officials discussing everything from rigging votes to covering up killings.
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"There was no illegal wiretapping, there were no informants inserted into the campaign, there was no 'spying' on the Trump campaign," Comey wrote.
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He repeated his unfounded accusation that Mr. Obama had carried out "the modern-day version of whatever wiretapping may be" on his campaign.
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Trump accused the Obama administration of wiretapping Trump Tower while he was still a candidate, calling it a "Nixon/Watergate" scandal on Twitter.
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According to witnesses, El Chapo heavily invested in wiretapping and spyware equipment over the decades, becoming obsessed with secure communications in the 1980s.
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Jacobs' lawyer wrote that Uber's security apparatus was engaged in stealing trade secrets, spying on rival executives and wiretapping, among other questionable behavior.
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Devin Nunes, the House Intelligence Committee chair who's trying — and failing — to substantiate President Trump's wiretapping claims, may have just have been solved.
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Republicans were not similarly up in arms when Democrats accused President George W. Bush of constitutional overreach with warrantless wiretapping and unilateral antiterrorism policies.
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If you've somehow avoided this madcap story, 12 days ago Trump made a series of increasingly angry tweets accusing Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower.
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The editorial also slammed Trump for refusing to back off his administration's unsubstantiated allegations that President Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower.
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Warrantless wiretapping In order to invade a US citizen's privacy for a search or seizure, law enforcement is legally required to have a warrant.
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The country's political crisis erupted in early 2015 when the SDSM accused Gruevski's administration of wiretapping the phones of tens of thousands of citizens.
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Separately, police surveillance tracking of real-time movements -- or wiretapping the actual conversations of a criminal suspect -- still typically requires a judge&aposs authorization.
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LoBiondo also expressed some frustration with the President's penchant for stirring controversy with his tweets -- exemplified by the current imbroglio over the wiretapping allegation.
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Devin Nunes and the House intelligence committee began with an unsubstantiated Saturday morning tweetstorm in which Trump accused President Obama of illegally wiretapping him.
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This is partly because the law is about preventing eavesdropping and wiretapping, not preventing any recorded representation of conversation whatsoever that isn't explicitly authorized.
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In California, it's a violation of the California Wiretapping Act to record a phone call without the consent of both parties on the call.
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Trump claimed (in a series of tweets that didn't cite any evidence) that the former president ordered wiretapping in Trump Tower during the election.
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But the timing of Comey's twin announcements — on Russia and Trump's wiretapping claim — couldn't have come at a worse time for the White House.
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Officials in the United States and other Western countries are stepping up attempts to ban or limit strong encryption and expand their wiretapping capabilities.
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Granted, that comment was about wiretapping Merkel, not Trump or Trump Tower, but it was still somewhat of a rhetorical win for team Trump.
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Macedonia's new government, which took over in May, said it would assist in investigating and bringing to justice the perpetrators of the wiretapping scandal.
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The two obvious headlines here—"Trump has no evidence for wiretapping allegations" and "Trump's people are under investigation"—are both bad for the president.
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On March 4, Trump tweeted several messages accusing Obama of wiretapping his hotel while in office, so this photoshop pretty much says it all.
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His tenure was marked by controversy over the allegedly politically motivated firings of several U.S. attorneys and a controversial government no-warrant wiretapping program.
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At its heart is a bitter battle between Yudhoyono and his successor Joko Widodo, complete with claims of wiretapping and an alleged treason plot.
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And to obtain that wiretapping warrant, the FBI would have to show cause to believe that Trump was an agent for a foreign power.
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His supporters would argue that the opposition has crossed the line into unlawful actions involving wiretapping and attempts to frame Trump and his associates.
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Doss: Getting approval on a Title I FISA application takes a lot of work -- as it should, since an approval allows wiretapping US persons.
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There are just two authorities for wiretapping an American citizen — a Title III criminal warrant or a legal order from a clandestine intelligence court.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Monday joked with President Trump about his explosive wiretapping allegation during their first-ever White House meeting.
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President Trump has kept his distance from the press since accusing former President Obama, without evidence, of wiretapping Trump Tower during the 85033 campaign.
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Spicer provided no new evidence to back up the president's wiretapping claim during the 85033-minute briefing, which was dominated by Trump's weekend tweets.
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The penalty for illegal wiretapping in this case, Wallin said, is up to 364 days in jail and a fine of up to $2,500.
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The Wiretap Act says that as long as one party knows that a call is being recorded, then it is no longer considered wiretapping.
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To some in law enforcement, if companies like WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram can design unbreakable encryption, then the future of wiretapping is in doubt.
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Mr. Graham noted that the expiring tools were different than the wiretapping in the Russia investigation that Mr. Trump and his allies widely denounced.
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He also played a role in the most controversial policies of the George W. Bush administration, including the torture of detainees and warrantless wiretapping.
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There have been many other instances in which a officers cite the state's wiretapping statute while arresting a bystander for recording video or audio.
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His recusal leaves few people in the Justice Department with the power to release a statement on Trump's wiretapping claim, according to The Times.
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He's told falsehoods about everything from Obama's birthplace to saying Obama didn't write his own memoir and even accused Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower.
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A widespread wiretapping scandal revealed corruption, election rigging and other criminal activities at the highest levels of government in 2015, causing a political crisis.
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The feature may raise some privacy issues: several states have wiretapping statutes that prohibit recording people without consent from both parties to a conversation.
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Shortly before he aired the wiretapping allegations last year, Zaev was charged with conspiring with an unidentified foreign intelligence service to topple the government.
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Mr. Trump did put the word in quotes in two of his Twitter posts, but he explicitly accused Mr. Obama of wiretapping his phones.
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In 2004, when he was deputy attorney general, he stood up to President George W. Bush over the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program.
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On Tuesday, the administration sent the secretary of homeland security, John F. Kelly, on CNN, where he, too, provided no evidence of any wiretapping.
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So then Conway tried to backpedal away from the whole idea of wiretapping—the surveillance state has many tools, she said, including smart microwaves.
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Stephanopoulos pushed back, however, saying none of the stories she mentioned backed up Trump's charge or her claims that the administration was wiretapping American citizens.
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As we warned last week, an ill-considered piece of legislation has been thrown in that makes the NSA's limitless wiretapping look like child's play.
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On Monday, in a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee, FBI Director James Comey said that he had "no information" to support Trump's wiretapping claim.
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GOP leaders said little about the explosive controversy around Trump's wiretapping claims and instead left it to intelligence committee chairmen to respond with written statements.
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Once that approach grew thin, Trump's relationship to birtherism devolved into a constant cliffhanger, which is precisely where things stand now with the wiretapping claims.
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"It's very important, because it's a big distraction and I expect it to be put to rest pretty quickly," LoBiondo said of Trump's wiretapping allegation.
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President Trump told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo in an interview that aired Wednesday that the Susan Rice reports revealed his "wiretapping" claims were justified.
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Sheela, who had created a massive wiretapping network, ordered one act of arson, as well as multiple murders (none of which were completed) and poisonings.
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Details from the wiretapping have been provided to special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the investigation into Russia's meddling in the election, CNN reported.
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President Trump is back on Twitter, aggressively attacking Obama for allegedly wiretapping his phones at Trump Tower during the election and personally attacking Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Meanwhile, sharp-fanged leeches at Breitbart are still saying that Trump's wiretapping claims have been vindicated, even though that's not even close to being true.
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"On wiretapping by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps," Trump told German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a joint press conference.
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In March of 2019, she accused Democrats of orchestrating the entire Mueller investigation, by means including the wiretapping of the Trump campaign, which didn't happen.
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Panels in both the House and Senate are investigating Moscow's actions, and the White House asked them to include wiretapping allegations in the broader probe.
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Two of Bush's aides, Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card, raced to the hospital to try to get Ashcroft's bedside signature to continue the wiretapping program.
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In the case of the CBS interview, he had to know that the topic of his baseless claim about wiretapping was going to come up.
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The wiretapping allegation, which has no basis anywhere outside of Trump's paranoid mind, damaged the United States's relationship with an ally for absolutely no reason.
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And then there's his baseless accusation that Obama ordered wiretapping at Trump Tower, a charge he never fully explained and which he's not yet retracted.
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Spicer reiterated that the intelligence committees in both chambers need to investigate both Trump's wiretapping allegation and the leaks coming out of the White House.
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Among other charges, Trump falsely claimed that former President Obama had committed a serious felony by ordering the wiretapping of his phones in Trump Tower.
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One of the most telling examples of media mania was the insistence that Trump was referring only to wiretapping and no other form of surveillance.
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Trump thought there was other malfeasance Comey should investigate, like the nonexistent wiretapping or the amount of leaks out of the administration to the press.
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Tom Cole (R-Okla.) on Friday called for President Trump to apologize to former President Obama for accusing him of "wiretapping" Trump Tower without evidence.
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Amid investigations into the Trump administration's ties to Russia, the president had accused his predecessor, President Barack Obama, of wiretapping the phones at Trump Tower.
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They said Nunes reportedly obtained the information well before the president blasted out an unsubstantiated tweet accusing Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower before the election.
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According the Treasury Department, the sanctions on Deripaska, 28500, were prompted by allegations of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegal wiretapping, extortion and racketeering.
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This new information comes just one day after a report revealed that the U.S. government had been wiretapping Manafort during and after the 2016 campaign.
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It's possible that the wiretapping claims are the latest in the pattern, as unconnected from reality as the claim that Obama was born in Africa.
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White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders doubled down on Monday, however, saying she didn't think Trump believed Comey's insistence that Obama never ordered the wiretapping.
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Senate panel Chairman Richard Burr told CNN, "I've talked to all the appropriate people," adding later that he has received "sufficient" responses about the wiretapping claim.
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Tom Rooney, a Florida Republican, that revealing the name of an American swept up inadvertently in a wiretapping would damage national security and future surveillance programs.
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It's asked Congress to investigate whether the wiretapping did happen, even though people on both sides of the aisle are saying it didn't -- or couldn't. 2.
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Donald Trump might have to fold or show his cards on his claims about Obama wiretapping his phones ... the House Intelligence Committee wants proof by Monday.
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He will likely reaffirm what has already been confirmed by the Senate and House intelligence heads: that Trump's tweet about wiretapping has no basis in fact.
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Smith famously explained what "fake news" actually was to Trump on-air, defended CNN's Jim Acosta, and countered Trump's bogus Obama wiretapping claim earlier this year.
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Sanders, the deputy White House press secretary, also said on the "Today" show that Trump "firmly believes" Obama ordered the wiretapping of phones at Trump Tower.
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By the end of the 1970s and early 1980s, as Wall Street was hitting its peak, Corbally and his wiretapping mentor Broady found a new opportunity.
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And when Trump accused Obama of wiretapping him during the 2016 presidential campaign (false), she offered misleading information about several news outlets having reported the same.
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Devin Nunes (R-CA), the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, held a surprise press conference in which he claimed to have new wiretapping news.
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The leaders of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism have requested evidence about the alleged wiretapping.
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President Donald Trump accused the Obama administration in March of wiretapping Trump Tower last year, a charge Obama and intelligence leaders in his administration consistently denied.
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"On wiretapping by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps," Trump said to German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a joint press conference.
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He was convicted using evidence from audio material collected during a massive wiretapping scandal that erupted in 2015 and contributed to the demise of his government.
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The Russia investigation is still ongoing but not fruitful, so Comey would likely stick to a just-the-facts presentation — communicative on wiretapping, mum on Russia.
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He tells Chuck Todd he would know if any such wiretapping was going on, including by the FBI, and that there wasn't any to his knowledge.
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Almost two weeks have gone by since the president accused his predecessor, President Obama, of wiretapping the phones in Trump Tower during last year's election campaign.
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"Effective programs for targeting foreign terror suspects were inaccurately portrayed as pervasive wiretapping operations to spy on American citizens and listen to their phone calls," Rep.
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"They were behind pushing a fake dossier, they were behind the wiretapping, they were behind spying on a U.S. campaign," she said on CNN in March.
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Under his leadership, the agency engaged in controversial practices, such as the warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens' international phone calls and surveillance of Americans' Internet communications.
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"As far as wiretapping I guess by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps," Trump said, turning to Merkel, who didn't smile.
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Among other highlights, Trump ignored Merkel's request for a handshake from Oval Office photographers and made an odd quip about wiretapping that left Merkel visibly puzzled.
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The Trump administration asked for more time on Monday evening to comply with a House Intelligence Committee request for evidence substantiating the president's claims of wiretapping.
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Even as he acknowledged the damage done by the White House's wiretapping claim, he told Congress, "I think our relationship is strong enough to handle this."
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Earlier on Wednesday, the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House intelligence committee said they have seen no evidence to back up the president's wiretapping accusation.
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Sessions's recusal reportedly sent the president into a spiral of rage that led to his notorious tweets accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump's campaign.
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Most of the members of the plot served time in prison for attempting to kill the U.S. attorney and for participating in the Rajneesh wiretapping scheme.
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He noted they would be competing with wiretapping allegations, Federal Bureau of Investigation probes, Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and a massive healthcare push all at once.
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"Like a rocket," Trump said himself in July, when describing the impact of one of his previous tweets accusing President Barack Obama of wiretapping his office.
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With his Obama wiretapping accusation -- a scandal on a level with "Nixon/Watergate," he declared -- Trump was the same reckless provocateur New Yorkers have always known.
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At this point, Trump's best (only?) way out is to muddy the water enough regarding wiretapping that he can clam he was right and move on.
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As attorney general, RFK's view of the world expanded as he waded into the simmering civil rights movement even as he sanctioned the wiretapping of King.
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The Justice Department declined to prosecute Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales in 2008 for keeping information about the National Security Agency's wiretapping program at his house.
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It was widely claimed that the FBI took no interest in wiretapping Page until he'd left the Trump campaign, therefore the motivations couldn't have been political.
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And as more sophisticated encryption makes its way into everyone's communications devices, making traditional police investigations techniques such wiretapping obsolete, governments will need to hack more.
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In many ways, wiretapping is as American as baseball or apple pie, but that's not a good reason to reconsider its legitimacy in the 21st century.
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In the most recent instance, he accused the Obama administration of wiretapping Trump Tower and suggested he had information to back it up, but never did.
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At his 2006 confirmation hearing, Senator Dick Durbin and I asked about his knowledge of several Bush-era scandals, including warrantless wiretapping, torture and detainee treatment.
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People feared that Echos were recording everything, and privacy advocates have long argued that these so-called smart speakers are simply futuristic forms of wiretapping devices.
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Federal prosecutors later investigated her for reportedly wiretapping her then-husband with the help of Bernard B. Kerik, the disgraced former New York City police commissioner.
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That same year, Mr. Koskoff was lead counsel in a class-action case against the state for illegal wiretapping of calls between clients and their lawyers.
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Democrats have more work to do, as Trump's wiretapping claims and the alleged influence Russian Vladimir Putin had on the presidential election are dominating the news.
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"I think there certainly could have been and it sounds like there's something that we should look into and verify," she said of the potential wiretapping.
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As he told Tucker Carlson in a recent interview, he was referring to a story in the New York Times, which reported wiretapping of Trump aides.
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In a series of early morning tweets on Saturday, Trump compared the unfounded wiretapping to McCarthyism and former President Richard Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal.
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For a full investigation, which permits wiretapping, F.B.I. procedures require an "articulable factual basis" that "reasonably indicates" that a crime or a national security threat exists.
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However, based on the available records, the closest to wiretapping Nixon that L.B.J. ever came was monitoring the phone calls out of Spiro Agnew's campaign plane.
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And yes, the US government had implemented a sweeping wiretapping program in the wake of 21/235 — but its legal violations were supposedly in the past.
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The wiretapping claim shows how easy it is — when all the answers are cloaked in secrecy — to send investigators in different directions and muddy the conversation.
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Encrypted phones have been the standard for top-ranking government officials dating back to World War II, when extensive technology was employed to protect against wiretapping.
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Mr. Trump is the same man who led the "birther" charge against Mr. Obama and accused the former president of wiretapping his office — both charges false.
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Of the many firestorms he has had to fight, none has burned as brightly as the tweets he sent accusing Obama of wiretapping him at Trump Tower.
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In both hearings, his highly political profile prompted fierce scrutiny from Democrats who wanted more information about his involvement in controversial Bush-era torture and wiretapping policies.
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In 2013, leaked documents provided by Edward Snowden revealed the US conducted mass government surveillance, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel accused the US of wiretapping her phone.
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The FBI made the request because such wiretapping would be illegal, since the President cannot just order the eavesdropping of a U.S. citizen's phones, the sources said.
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RELATED: Actually, Mr. President, wiretapping doesn't cover a lot of things The White House on Thursday said the statement did not shake their confidence in the accusation.
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RELATED: Comey hearing under way before House Intelligence Committee Trump was trying to shift attention away from the wiretapping claims in a series of Monday morning tweets.
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Intelligence gained from the wiretapping has led to some evidence — though possibly inconclusive — that Manafort may have encouraged Russians to help with Trump's campaign, the network reported.
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The peg for this story is the wiretapping hearing on Monday, in which [FBI Director James] Comey and [NSA Director Mike] Rogers testified about your tweets there.
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Macedonia was without a functioning government between 2015 and April 2016 due to political turmoil over a wiretapping scandal that brought down the VMRO-DPMNE party bloc.
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"Those centers were part of a wider wiretapping system operated by UDBA, the secret political police," said researcher Igor Omerza, who has published books on Slovenian history.
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This time it was for information from AT&T over alleged wiretapping of members of Congress, at the direction of the Justice Department and presumably the president.
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Outside of tax drama, the House Intelligence Committee gave the Justice Department extra time (until March 20) to provide any evidence of Trump's wiretapping claims against Obama.
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The court battle came down to the U.S. government argument that telecommunications companies are legally obligated to give law enforcement access to calls under federal wiretapping laws.
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The president in early March accused Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower, a claim that has been repeatedly debunked and that the White House has since walked back.
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And Winter Soldier raised concerns over the NSA wiretapping fiasco at the perfect moment — and more importantly, it had a clear point of view on the topic.
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The wiretapping involved surveillance of as many as 20,000 people, including journalists, judges, foreign ambassadors, and activists — but who orchestrated it, and to what end, remains murky.
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When Trump first made the wiretapping charge in a string of early-morning tweets earlier this month, a baffled White House quickly went into damage-control mode.
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If Trump was right about the wiretapping — a big and unlikely "if" — it wouldn't have been at Obama's direction, and it wouldn't have been for political purposes.
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That includes grand jury documents, wiretapping records and other confidential materials that a controversial Justice Department legal opinion last year concluded could be withheld in some circumstances.
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FBI Director James Comey privately urged the Justice Department over the weekend to push back on the president's wiretapping claim, but the department issued no such rejection.
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When he seemed upset about the fallout of the Obama-wiretapping tweet last week, his aides tried to cheer him up by showing him Muslim Ban 2.0.
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A longtime Koch ally, Pompeo has described the War on Terror as a clash between Christianity and Islam and defended the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program.
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Some investigators view the WhatsApp issue as even more significant than the one over locked phones because it goes to the heart of the future of wiretapping.
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Trump alleged that then-President Barack Obama authorized the wiretapping of him and his campaign aides as part of an "illegal" scheme to engage in political espionage.
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A handful of former directors of the agency have been convicted of corruption and abuse of official power, including illegally wiretapping the conversations of politicians and others.
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Later that day, Mr. Yoo completed a memo on a "hypothetical" warrantless wiretapping program that evolved into a more extensive memo that Mr. Yoo signed on Oct.
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The day in March when Trump accused President Barack Obama, without any evidence, of wiretapping him, Ruddy said the president called him twice to talk about it.
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The high court, by 22007-21964, rejected the government's claim of constitutional authority to protect the nation from internal subversion by wiretapping "dangerous" radicals without court warrants.
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Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., who wrote the opinion, leaned heavily on the threat to free speech that he saw in the unbridled government wiretapping of dissenters.
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Wiretapping is often a valuable method for gathering evidence of serious crimes, but police cannot use wiretap technology without first having an order approved by a judge.
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" His tweet about Obama Talking about his tweeting habits, Trump said, "I sent the one about the 'wiretapping' in quotes, and that turned out to be true.
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James Robertson, a federal judge who quit an intelligence oversight panel in 21960 to protest warrantless domestic wiretapping by the George W. Bush administration, died on Sept.
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Humiliating details about personal lives ended up in court documents and on mysterious websites; careers were ruined; officers were rounded up without legal justification; wiretapping was rampant.
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The Democrats also asked the Justice Department to publicly refute Trump's wiretapping claims, following reports that FBI Director James Comey had asked the department to do so.
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"The president was very clear in his tweet that it was, you know, 'wiretapping,'" Mr. Spicer said, using his fingers to make a gesture suggesting quotation marks.
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The idea, however, was swiftly dismissed as implausible, according to a source familiar with Baker's interview, and he was not present when any wiretapping remarks were raised.
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These documents could contain important information about his role in some of the Bush administration's most controversial actions, including its warrantless wiretapping program and its torture policy.
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Early Saturday morning, President Trump fired off a series of tweets accusing, without evidence, former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower in the month before the election.
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Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, 43, took power in May 2017 after 11 years of conservative rule amid a deep political crisis sparked by a wiretapping scandal in 2015.
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The highlights: Obama wiretapping claims: "No," the president is not ready to withdraw his allegations, said Spicer, even though Comey and Rogers confirmed today that they are unsubstantiated.
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And when Trump accused Barack Obama, without any evidence, of wiretapping Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign, Sanders falsely said that "multiple news outlets" had reported about it.
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The 11-count lawsuit alleges two counts of violating the RICO Act, as well as wiretapping, fraud and violating the Bane Act, a California anti-intimidation/coercion statute.
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Freedom House, A New York-based watchdog, reports that press freedom deteriorated across the region in 2015, and especially in Macedonia, where the government has been wiretapping journalists.
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Was it Trump's second failed attempt at a Muslim ban, his proposed 31 percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency, or maybe his obviously ludicrous Obama wiretapping claim?
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Combined with a widening of legal wiretapping and the reluctance of courts to limit police surveillance powers, the changes could deter grassroots opposition to government policies, critics say.
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Literally nobody—including Trump himself, who basically has access to all of the world's intelligence—has provided even the smallest piece of evidence to prove his wiretapping claim.
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The wiretapping rooms were found behind a solid steel door during renovation work at the back of the Hotel Jama and lead directly to the Postojna Cave's interior.
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Macedonia has been without a functioning government since 2015, when it fell into turmoil over a wiretapping scandal that brought down the ruling nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party bloc.
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Preliminary results issued by the State Election Commission showed opposition Social Democrats had won 49 seats in the election, brought about by Gruevski's resignation over a wiretapping scandal.
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Press secretary Sean Spicer appeared to say that Trump's "wiretapping" accusation could have meant broader surveillance activities that are not limited to a physical wiretap at Trump Tower.
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He only mentioned Wednesday's terrorist attack in London once -- and only as a distraction from the public paying attention to the Nunes press conference on the wiretapping matter.
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But the press secretary also insisted once again that the president did not mean literal wiretapping but rather that he could have been caught in broader surveillance efforts.
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U.S. stock index futures fell after the North Korean launch and on growing domestic political tensions after President Donald Trump accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, of wiretapping him.
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The wiretapping allegation followed Trump claiming last month that Obama was behind the wave of protests and government leaks that have marked the early days of his administration.
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MARCH 4 Trump, with no proof, claims Obama tapped his phones; former US official says "this did not happen" Trump should prove his claims of wiretapping, GOP Sen.
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A former Obama administration official is pushing back against the Trump White House after press secretary Sean Spicer misquoted her while attempting to promote unproven claims about wiretapping.
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The committee's first public hearing this week spent little time on the politically explosive aspects of the Russia issue, such as intelligence leaks or President Trump's wiretapping claims.
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The Trump administration has said the House and Senate Intelligence committees should fold his claims about wiretapping into its larger probe of Russian meddling in last year's election.
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Unlike his March tweets baselessly accusing President Barack Obama of wiretapping him, Trump's tweet about a possible Comey tape hasn't plunged the government into a wasteful, humiliating charade.
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For those conservatives who are pushing for the Senate to abolish the legislative filibuster, there are two issues that might give them pause – gun control and warrantless wiretapping.
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The Treasury Department announced last month that the sanctions on Deripaska, 85033, were prompted by allegations of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegal wiretapping, extortion and racketeering.
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Forty years later, the Supreme Court admitted that the majority had been wrong to say wiretapping did not implicate the Fourth Amendment, and that Brandeis had been right.
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Members of a multiagency law-enforcement task force sent into Rajneeshpuram after Rajneesh's press conference found evidence of an extensive wiretapping operation and an apparent biological warfare laboratory.
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Reports suggest that Trump was irate over the failure of Comey to support him on the Obama wiretapping allegations and to dismiss the allegations in the Russian controversy.
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Nunes has faced sustained criticism for a bombshell announcement last Wednesday that an unnamed source had given him information that seemed to validate Donald Trump's baseless wiretapping allegations.
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A normally mild-mannered lawmaker, Schiff had worked hard in recent days to maintain a veneer of bipartisanship when it came to Nunes and the Trump wiretapping probe.
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The spectacle of the release was itself noteworthy, given that wiretapping under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, is normally one of the government's closest-guarded secrets.
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In addition to his role in supporting judicial nominees, they've also implied that he provided misleading testimony on his involvement in the Bush administration's detainee and wiretapping policies.
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More importantly, he was very unhappy that Comey prominently and publicly contradicted him on the wiretapping issue and said that a criminal probe was underway against the administration.
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In 2008, he was convicted again, this time on more than 70 charges including racketeering, wire fraud and wiretapping, and he had been in prison until this day.
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He told senators he'd learned about Bush's warrantless wiretapping program from The New York Times, when an email appears to show that he knew about it much earlier.
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It was followed up by another report by the state attorney general's office, Mr. Perini said, that put the blame for the illegal wiretapping on two rogue officers.
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From Thomas Jefferson to Franklin D. Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy, other presidents turned at times to unseemly and even ruthless methods against their enemies like illegal wiretapping.
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President George W. Bush (2001-2009) - A resolution was introduced in 2008 to impeach Bush for a variety of violations associated with the Iraq War and warrantless wiretapping.
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Warrantless wiretapping, torture and the faulty intelligence that led us into the Iraq War — a lot of these issues began when you were part of the Bush administration.
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Intelligence officials, including FBI Director James Comey, and top lawmakers on congressional panels investigating Russia's election interference say they have seen no evidence to support Trump's wiretapping claims.
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To combat leaks over war policy, the White House and the F.B.I. director, J. Edgar Hoover, ordered the wiretapping of four reporters, including me, and 14 government officials.
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He falsely compared American intelligence services to the Nazis under Hitler, falsely accused British intelligence of breaking American law and falsely accused President Obama of illegally wiretapping him.
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To ensure Nixon's success at the polls, they were trying to get an inside look at DNC secrets by stealing (or photographing) campaign documents and wiretapping the phones.
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Perhaps we will never know for sure, but this week's revelation of the wiretapping of Paul Manafort during and after the election is clearly relevant to this inquiry.
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But the case against him and a co-defendant, Anthony J. Russo, fell apart with revelations of serious government misconduct, including illegal wiretapping, and the charges were dismissed.
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The movement pushed against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the expansion of government powers — such as wiretapping, surveillance, and torture — that Bush deployed while in office.
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Asked if the Russia and wiretapping news is sucking all the oxygen out of the Supreme Court debate, Blumenthal told reporters Monday after the hearing that he's not concerned.
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Nunes's murky and unexplained interactions with the White House raise serious questions about whether his committee can run a credible investigation into Trump's wiretapping claims and ties to Russia.
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Drake reported his concerns about the NSA's wiretapping to the Department of Defense Inspector General, Congress, and -- after those avenues proved fruitless -- to a reporter at the Baltimore Sun.
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That's probably why Trump said afterwards that he now feels vindicated for his wiretapping tweet, even though Nunes still says Obama himself didn't order a tap of Trump's phone.
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"Recent allegations made by media commentator judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct 'wiretapping' against the then president-elect are nonsense," GCHQ said in a rare statement.
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Courts in the 1960s and 1970s created rules for the wiretapping of analog phone calls; those rulings were later applied as the basis for mass surveillance of the Internet.
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It doesn't matter how much the president and his stooges try to distract the country from the issue with baseless and—frankly, laughable—claims of Obama wiretapping Trump Tower.
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FBI Director James Comey has publicly denied any such wiretapping occurred, as did NSA chief Michael Rogers, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
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As we see from his angered bafflement at sustained questioning from a CBS interviewer about things like his wiretapping claims, Trump is unfamiliar with sequential, extended argument -- i.e. concentration.
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The NYT has a wrap on the Trump White House's scramble to respond to the president accusing former President Obama — over Twitter, nonetheless, of wiretapping him during the campaign.
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The lawsuit, filed on Monday, came two days after Trump alleged that former President Obama ordered wiretapping of his phone lines at Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Senior U.S. officials told the Times that Comey has said the president's wiretapping allegations are false and has asked the Justice Department on Saturday to publicly correct the record.
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CNN host Don Lemon compared White House press secretary Sean Spicer's response to questions about President Trump's wiretapping allegation to a famous scene in Adam Sandler's "Billy Madison" Thursday.
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MARCH 8 Obama was irked and exasperated in response to Trump's uncorroborated wiretapping accusation, sources say The Obamacare replacement bill is under fire from both sides of the aisle.
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The House Intelligence Committee, which said it would investigate the accusations as part of the probe, asked that the White House hand over any evidence of wiretapping by Monday.
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Trump was reportedly also mad that Comey refuted his wiretapping claims in a congressional hearing -- though he did some damage control on that issue in his NBC News interview.
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The order also risks being overshadowed by unsubstantiated accusations the president made over the weekend that former President Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of his phones during the campaign.
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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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"Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct 'wiretapping' against the then president-elect are nonsense," read a statement released by GCHQ.
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" When asked if incidents such as the tweet in which Trump accused President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower tarnish the office of the president, Bush replied, "A little bit.
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Macedonia has been without a functioning government since 2015, when it sank into political turmoil over a wiretapping scandal that brought down the ruling nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party bloc.
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F.B.I. agents in Florida used multiple investigative tools, including an undercover informant who made contact with the suspect, wiretapping his conversations, and pulling personal and financial records on him.
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Under an agreement reached a year ago, the leaders of the four parties decided to allow a special prosecutor to investigate the wiretapping and, if necessary, bring criminal charges.
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White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Sunday an investigation of Trump's wiretapping claims should be included in any probe of ties between the president's 2016 bid and Russia.
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The spy court secretly blessed its bulk data collection components in 2004 and 2006, and Congress authorized warrantless wiretapping in a 2008 law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act.
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With virtually no on-the-ground access, Vella explained, roughly eighty per cent of the investigative work on Nigerian crime involves wiretapping phone calls that the police cannot understand.
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Indeed, in 2008, Obama ran for president criticizing President George W. Bush's expansive use of executive power, which included a warrantless wiretapping program and indefinite detention of terror suspects.
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Macedonia was thrown into political turmoil in 2015 when opposition parties accused the prime minister and his counter-intelligence chief of orchestrating the wiretapping of more than 20,000 people.
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Macedonia has been in turmoil since February last year, when the opposition accused then Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief of wiretapping more than 20,000 people.
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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that he has "grave concerns" over Chairman Devin Nunes's (R-Calif.) handling of the Trump Tower wiretapping investigation. Rep.
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The materials also revealed which Federal District Court judges signed off on the wiretapping of Mr. Page: Judges Rosemary Collyer, Michael Mosman, Anne C. Conway and Raymond J. Dearie.
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Mr. Trump's comments came a day after the House had passed a bipartisan bill to extend the expiring tools while also adding safeguards to national security wiretapping under FISA.
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It is, supposedly, a summary of the evidence that was used by the FBI in its application to obtain a wiretapping warrant from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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Trump associate Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneWhy the rule of law depends on the president and his attorney general Was President Trump spied on as part of Carter Page wiretapping?
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Defenders of the Reagan administration made the claim during the Iran-contra affair, and lawyers in the George W. Bush administration wrote memos blessing torture and warrantless wiretapping programs.
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The data was connected to a case alleging the NSA surveilled American digital and telecommunications as part of a warrantless wiretapping program ordered by former President George W. Bush.
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Top Republicans have denied the allegations as White House officials have modified their rhetoric on wiretapping claims the president initially made in a series of tweets earlier this month.
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Macedonia has been in a two-year political deadlock since a wiretapping scandal revealed corruption, election rigging and other criminal activities at the highest levels of government in 2015.
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But in the wiretapping case, Republican lawmakers have neither supported Mr. Trump's wiretap claims (which could risk their credibility) nor strenuously opposed them (which could prompt a partisan backlash).
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It's precisely that feeling — "a sense of persecution bordering on faith," as Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman wrote in The Times on Monday — that brought about the wiretapping tweets.
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House Judiciary Committee staff are wrangling over the details of a proposal to reform the National Security Agency's controversial warrantless wiretapping program, according to interviews with multiple committee members.
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DNI director James Clapper and FBI director James Comey both insisted that President Trump's tweet was not correct or that they had no information about the alleged wiretapping. Terrible!
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer last week repeated claims made by a Fox News analyst who accused Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency of aiding Obama in wiretapping Trump Tower.
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Although Wall Street fell slightly overnight because of concern about U.S. President Donald Trump's wiretapping allegations, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan is up 0.5 percent.
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Critics say that combined with a widening of legal wiretapping and the reluctance of courts to limit police surveillance powers, the changes could deter grassroots opposition to government policies.
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It was Nunes, for example, who wrote the 2230 memo on wiretapping that many Trump supporters believed would permanently damage special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Trump's 2303 campaign.
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Democrats have also argued that he obscured his role on Bush-era wiretapping practices and hid his awareness of a hack that exposed thousands of Senate Judiciary Democrat documents.
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What he finds makes it into the hands of an attorney who used to work for the chair of the House panel investigating the Trump White House's wiretapping allegations.
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Trump administration So President Trump accused the Obama administration of wiretapping his phones at Trump Tower before the election and now everyone is scrambling to understand what it all means.
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"As far as wiretapping I guess by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps," Trump said, turning to Merkel, who did not smile at the joke.
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With his wiretapping claims, Trump once again positions himself as the great unmasker of Obama, a fraudulent figure who isn't who he says he is -- or so the theory goes.
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Only after this formal commencement of a counterintelligence probe—Crossfire Hurricane—did the FBI begin to target U.S. citizens with spying, wiretapping and other tools usually reserved for foreign infiltrators.
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After Trump and Merkel left the stage reporters asked Sean Spicer whether he apologized for repeating an anonymously sourced Fox News claim that British intelligence helped in wiretapping Trump Tower.
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In 1994, when he was a senator, he introduced a digital wiretapping law signed by President Bill Clinton requiring telecommunications carriers to design equipment so law enforcement can surveil users.
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FBI Director James Comey confirmed that both the FBI and Department of Justice have "no information that supports" President Trump's tweets alleging wiretapping of Trump Tower by the Obama administration.
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Macedonia has been in turmoil since the opposition accused then Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief last year of orchestrating the wiretapping of more than 20,000 people.
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Wiretapping laws aside, however, it certainly does look like Swift made an about face from the time the call happened until she publicly denounced the lyric a few weeks ago.
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Press secretary Sean Spicer this week tried to cast Trump's tweets as meaning broader surveillance beyond a physical wiretap of Trump Tower, citing the quotes around "wiretapping" in one statement.
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Changing the nature of the conversation from Russia and wiretapping, Stone replied to her attack on him by questioning if she was housing any refugees and calling her a hypocrite.
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Napolitano had not been on the air since March 16, when White House press secretary Sean Spicer quoted his report in an effort to support President Trump's claims of wiretapping.
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Defeat could weaken his political potency by adding a legislative failure to a resume already saddled with inquiries into his campaign's Russia connections and his unfounded wiretapping allegations against Obama.
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - The United States on Monday extradited former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli to the Central American country, the U.S. State Department said, to face charges of illegal wiretapping.
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President Trump "looked like a third grader" trying to "squirm out of a lie" when asked about his wiretapping claims during a Fox News interview, CNN's political director said Thursday.
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Last year Panama's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Ricardo Martinelli, president from 2009 to 2014, who has been accused of illegal wiretapping and embezzlement (he has denied the allegations).
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As part of the agreement, the leaders of the country's four largest political parties agreed to allow a special prosecutor to investigate the wiretapping and, if necessary, bring criminal charges.
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Snowden is even worse, with half the movie portraying Edward Snowden as a Beautiful Mind-esque savant who almost single-handedly built the infrastructure that made NSA wiretapping a possibility.
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Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, on Friday said he was satisfied with the documents provided by the Department of Justice related to the wiretapping allegations.
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The Palermo magistrate had already started wiretapping Mered's Sudanese number, and also that of his wife, Tesfu, and his brother Merhawi, who had immigrated to the Netherlands two years earlier.
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A majority of registered voters — 220006 percent — say in the poll that they'd like to see an independent special prosecutor investigate Russian meddling in the election and Trump's wiretapping claims.
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"For a president who baselessly accused his predecessor of illegally wiretapping him, that Mr. Trump would suggest that he, himself, may have engaged in such conduct is staggering," said Rep.
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Exhibit A: When Trump joked about the US wiretapping Germany at a joint news conference during Merkel's visit to Washington in March, the Chancellor's reaction ranged from bemusement to disbelief.
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If Nunes acted on the assurance that the White House had proof of Obama's wiretapping, he was either deliberately misled or hasn't ever paid attention to the way Trump operates.
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It was as close to wiretapping the confession booth as Donnersmarck could hope to get, and, he says, it confirmed for him that his insight into Richter's story was sound.
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Schiff also criticized Trump for the White House's suggestion that the British aided Obama in the wiretapping, a reference to an accusation made by press secretary Sean Spicer last week.
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The officers arrested him, confiscated his phone, and charged him with felony wiretapping — an offense punishable by up to seven years in jail and a fine of up to $4,000.
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The question we should ask isn't whether the F.B.I. followed the laws in wiretapping Carter Page — they clearly did — but whether the laws they followed protect our privacy well enough.
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Mueller is taken seriously as Mr. Clean Marine, a Republican willing to stand on principle even against other Republicans, as when he and James Comey resisted W. on warrantless wiretapping.
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But 17 more resolutions were introduced over the next year focused on his secret war in Cambodia, the firing of the Watergate prosecutor and illegal wiretapping of journalists and critics.
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That little-known aspect of the notorious Hanssen case illustrates the risk of dysfunction in national security wiretapping, one of counterintelligence agents' most powerful tools in fighting terrorism and espionage.
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Mr. Nunes, who served on the president's transition team, has for weeks offered Mr. Trump fuel to keep his wiretapping claims in the news — and to make more unsubstantiated accusations.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Prosecutors in Taiwan announced on Tuesday that the island's former president Ma Ying-jeou had been indicted over the handling of classified information in a 2013 wiretapping case.
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Comey did confirm one thing of substance: that neither he nor the Justice Department had any information that could substantiate Trump's tweets about Obama ordering the "wiretapping" of Trump Tower.
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For most of its history, GR Sistemi has sold GPS trackers, and traditional wiretapping services to law enforcement but they also still provide an app to monitor fleets of trucks.
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Internal skimmers can be ultra thin skimmers that fit inside the card reader, or simple cables that run between the card reader and main board and record card data (wiretapping).
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On Tuesday, a meeting with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was abruptly closed to cameras, even as reporters lingered outside the Oval Office prepared to ask Trump about the wiretapping claims.
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But continuing to claim that former President Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower, even after the sitting FBI and NSA directors made clear it was false, was a new low.
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And then without presenting any evidence, the White House press secretary had followed this up with a call for an investigation into the illegal wiretapping by the Bush administration of Obama.
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But where Broady was private and mostly kept himself holed up in his wiretapping lair, Corbally took after Cohn — embracing the social and political access that his client list brought him.
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FBI Director James Comey has said there is no evidence of wiretapping at Trump Tower in New York but that the agency is investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
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Darlene dresses up as the face of fsociety for a 4th of July message (shot on VHS!), sharing the taped conference call in which they discuss mass wiretapping on the public.
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The former Yugoslav republic has been in turmoil since February 2015, when the opposition accused then-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief of wiretapping more than 20,000 people.
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While digital surveillance of a person without their consent can violate laws against stalking, wiretapping, or hacking, the Times wrote, there have been few cases in which developers were found liable.
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In the interview with the Financial Times, which is based in Britain, President Trump doubled down on his unproven tweet last month stating his predecessor ordered a wiretapping of Trump Tower.
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It does seem like a good sign that Amazon is listening to the millions of people who are buying and using its devices, which many privacy experts equate to wiretapping devices.
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Many expected the case to cost Google (GOOGL) billions of dollars because plaintiffs alleged the data collection broke federal wiretapping laws -— but the agreement doesn't include financial relief for class members.
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Macedonia was thrown into political turmoil in 2015, when opposition parties accused then-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief of orchestrating the wiretapping of more than 20,000 people.
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It was a cool July day in 1986 when Ma Anand Sheela strolled into a courthouse in Oregon to plead guilty to attempted murder, grievous bodily harm, wiretapping, and immigration fraud.
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Dragnea and Tariceanu, who are respectively speakers of the lower house and senate, have accused the intelligence service of abusing its power by faking evidence and illegally wiretapping millions of Romanians.
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The implication here seems to be that Trump is wiretapping himself—a la Nixon's infamous tape system—and that, if Comey spills the beans, Trump will hit him with the tapes.
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Mr. Zaev, who helped expose the wiretapping in February 2015, subsequently found himself accused of collaborating with a foreign intelligence service to bring down the government — a charge he has denied.
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Apologies from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court judges who are supposed to serve as one of the few checks and balances to prevent the FBI from wiretapping innocent Americans.
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Comey took the opportunity Monday to refute the wiretapping claim in person and at one point even pushed back on a tweet from the president that was sent during his testimony.
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" Trump in a series of weekend tweets accused former President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower, something for which committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said Tuesday he had seen "no evidence.
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People who install these apps onto their spouse's phone are typically in violation of three laws: the federal wiretapping statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse act, and the federal stalking statute.
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And now the topic of wiretapping is in vogue once again due to recent claims by President Trump that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump tower during the most recent election cycle.
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In fact, the first instances of wiretapping pre-date the invention of the telephone by almost a decade, coinciding with the US Civil War and the increasing use of the telegraph.
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The DOJ on Monday evening asked for more time to comply with the House Intelligence Committee's request for evidence backing up Trump's wiretapping claims, just hours before the panel's midnight deadline.
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The ACLU called on Larsen to disclose any role she played in the authorization of "torture, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention and other abuse" during her time at DOJ, the paper reported.
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The administration spurred an international incident last year after Sean Spicer, its press secretary at the time, repeated an unsupported accusation about a British spy agency's wiretapping of the Trump campaign.
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The C.I.A. was so determined to hide the fact that it was wiretapping the Cuban Consulate that it failed to cooperate fully with the Warren Commission that was investigating the assassination.
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The president has advanced the premise in sometimes sensational and uncorroborated ways, as when he accused Mr. Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower, an assertion dismissed by Mr. Trump's own Justice Department.
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Mr. Pellicano, a private investigator to the rich and famous, was found guilty in 19803 on charges including wiretapping, racketeering and wire fraud and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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Days after his 2017 speech, he accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping him in Trump Tower during the election, an accusation that lacked proof but caused partisan uproar in Washington.
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SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia's special prosecutor said on Thursday she would continue investigating a wiretapping scandal, including alleged large-scale misappropriation of government funds, despite 56 officials being granted a presidential amnesty.
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So as I juggled coverage of health care and taxes, Nafta and wiretapping, I investigated the Easter Egg Roll — calling anyone I could think of who might know something about it.
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Critics point to his support for President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program and Justice Department memos authorizing waterboarding as signs that Mr. Sessions takes a broad view of presidential power.
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Rosenstein said he never pursued recording the President and denied any suggestion he advocated for Trump's removal, and one source in the room for the wiretapping comment dismissed it as sarcasm.
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Another anecdote in Kurtz's book that is a hallmark of Trump's "Defiance Disorder" came when White House advisers were surprised by Trump's tweet charging the Obama administration with wiretapping Trump Tower.
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Without evidence, he claimed the FBI had inserted a "spy" into his campaign for sinister political purposes and castigated former President Barack Obama for allegedly ordering the wiretapping of Trump Tower.
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The reduced privacy safeguards in FISA, as compared with wiretapping in traditional criminal investigations, reflect a national security interest that arises when foreign adversaries pose a threat to the United States.
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Trump leveled unfounded wiretapping accusations against the former president earlier this month, positing a series of tweets claiming that Obama had ordered surveillance of Trump Tower during his 2016 presidential campaign.
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There, he stressed that while the new information did not validate Mr. Trump's wiretapping claim, it did show that the president might have been correct to say he had been surveilled.
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It suggests the head of the House Intelligence Committee, who is nominally supposed to investigate the Trump White House's wiretapping claims and ties to Russia, is complicit in this whole process.
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Trump is generally receptive to conspiracy theories, like birtherism, but a lot of his favorite ones, like the false claim that Obama was wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign, revolve around him.
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Obama was irked and exasperated in response to his successor's uncorroborated wiretapping accusation, sources close to the former president tell CNN, though these sources say Obama's reaction stopped short of outright fury.
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It continued: Deripaska has been investigated for money laundering, and has been accused of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official, and taking part in extortion and racketeering.
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The wiretapping tweet successfully knocked out of the headlines discussion over whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions committed perjury when he falsely told a Senate committee that he had no contacts with Russians.
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But he suggested the information being made available to lawmakers related to Trump's wiretapping claims, which the President levied on Twitter earlier this month but which officials have struggled to back up.
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In early morning tweets on Saturday, Trump accused former President Barack Obama of ordering the wiretapping of phones in Trump Tower weeks before the election, without providing evidence of such an act.
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"Reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling," Spicer said in a statement, but did not elaborate on which reports had made the wiretapping claim.
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FBI Director James Comey asked Justice Department officials to publicly reject President Donald Trump's claims that former President Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower, The New York Times reported Sunday.
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It's a moment of political theater that could end in humiliation for Trump, with Comey expected to say that there was no wiretapping, debunking allegations that Trump has repeatedly refused to withdraw.
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"As far as wiretapping, I guess, by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps," Trump said, stretching his hand out toward Merkel, who was standing next to him.
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Using their extensive wiretapping system (they've bought out the phone company), the cartel godfathers listen in on people who have revolted against Gilberto's plan and want to strike out on their own.
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Two years of political turmoil were triggered in 2015 after opposition parties accused then prime minister Nikola Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief of orchestrating the wiretapping of more than 20,000 people.
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Trump accused predecessor Barack Obama on Saturday of wiretapping him during the late stages of the campaign, but offered no evidence for an allegation which an Obama spokesman said was "simply false".
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By the time I arrived back in Skopje, there were already murmurings of marches to protest the country's ruling party, which was under investigation for offenses including wiretapping, blackmail and electoral fraud.
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In a now-famous scene from 2004, Comey refused to reauthorize a controversial warrantless wiretapping program and, along with other officials, prepared a mass resignation when the White House tried to intervene.
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Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in March that documents provided to lawmakers by the Justice Department provided no evidence to support the president's wiretapping claim.
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As many have pointed out over the past week, President Trump's tweets alleging that President Obama ordered wiretapping of the Trump campaign are not only free of evidentiary support, they are nonsensical.
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Brandeis argued that because the government had broken the law—wiretapping was a crime in the state of Washington—the evidence gained from the wiretap should have been excluded at Olmstead's trial.
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Still, those questions break sharply along partisan lines, with 59 percent of Republicans saying they believe Trump's wiretapping claims and 83 percent of Democrats saying the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians.
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Nunes worked on Trump's transition team, publicly supported Flynn just hours before his resignation as national security adviser and downplaying Trump's wiretapping allegations against Obama by suggesting they shouldn't be taken literally.
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"It's very unlikely that law enforcement would want to get involved in something like this if the victim didn't want prosecution," said Wallin, who noted that he has previously defended wiretapping cases.
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But Spicer also said that Trump "stands by" his initial tweets on the subject, and Trump on Friday joked about the wiretapping claim during a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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The tiny ex-Yugoslav republic has been in turmoil since February 2015, when the opposition accused then-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his counter-intelligence chief of wiretapping more than 20,000 people.
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And Republicans are hiding documents for 35 months when he was a top advisor to President Bush and worked on controversial issues like abortion, torture, warrantless wiretapping, and banning same-sex marriage.
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An appeals court has ruled that recording the cops openly is protected by the First Amendment, but secretly filming the police might result in charges for wiretapping in some states, like Massachusetts.
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Despite that message, Trump used the press conference with Merkel to neither apologize nor retract the statements made about wiretapping — and chose, instead, to pin the episode on a Fox News commentator.
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According to Marks, three male agents, identified as Tobar, Sanin, and Alexander, refused to work with her on surveillance and wiretapping duties, oftentimes just not showing up for scheduled shifts with her.
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The Times, citing anonymous sources, reported that Rosenstein had discussed wiretapping Trump in the White House in 2017 and also possibility recruiting Cabinet members to force Trump's resignation via the 25th Amendment.
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But in January 1973, Mr. Hunt and the burglars pleaded guilty, and Mr. McCord and Mr. Liddy were convicted in a federal trial, all seven on charges of burglary, wiretapping and conspiracy.
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Mr. Dragnea took to the stage during the rally and railed against the "parallel state," maintaining that he was a victim of an abusive prosecutorial system that was wiretapping millions of Romanians.
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Firing Mr. Comey — who, in addition to leading the Russia investigation, infuriated Mr. Trump by refusing to give any credence to his wiretapping accusation — is only the latest and most stunning example.
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Rather, it stemmed from a discovery that N.S.A. analysts had violated rules imposed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court barring any searching for Americans' information in certain messages captured through such wiretapping.
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Under current law, supporters say, the DOJ can only go after botnets engaged in fraud or illegal wiretapping, not those that result in the destruction of data or denial-of-service attacks.
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But congressional testimony on Wednesday by the inspector general, Michael Horowitz, underscored the report's bleak portrayal of the F.B.I. and its wiretapping powers in ways that extend well beyond the Russia investigation.
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In a statement from his spokesman, Mr. Trump called "reports" about the wiretapping "very troubling" and said Congress should examine them as part of its investigations into Russia's meddling in the election.
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Samantha Bee's show "Full Frontal" airs just once a week, so she had a lot to catch up on Wednesday night, including President Trump's Twitter posts accusing his predecessor of wiretapping him.
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So what follows is a guide to what Nunes said, what he left out, and the false narrative already coming from the president and his allies that this vindicates the wiretapping claim.
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So he has been arguing that the wiretapping he alleged could include routine surveillance, which was not directed by the White House, of legal surveillance targets who spoke with people in his campaign.
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Sanders said the president is the victim of a media-double standard as doubt is cast on the wiretapping claims, yet ties between Trump and the Russian government were continuously called into question.
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Meanwhile, Democratic operatives are planning a coup from a bunker not far from the White House and wiretapping Trump administration officials, not to mention Trump Tower itself—a looming scandal of Watergate proportions.
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Now the Trump administration is calling for a congressional investigation into the wiretapping claims, even though Trump aides have repeatedly failed to point to any hard evidence to back up the president's allegations.
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The company is suspected to have provided Syria with internet and telephone wiretapping gear in violation of a European embargo against the Bashar al-Assad regime, according to local news reports on Thursday.
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Spicer also said that Trump would not apologize to Obama for his now debunked claim that the 44th President ordered wiretapping against him — saying there was a lot about surveillance that remained unknown.
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Washington (CNN)For nearly two weeks now, President Donald Trump and his aides have floated a conspiracy theory involving President Barack Obama wiretapping then-candidate Trump's phone lines in his Manhattan office building.
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Shep Smith, on numerous occasions, has blasted Trump, as the anchor attempted to explain "fake news" to the president, make sense of Kellyanne Conway's microwave comments, and counter Trump's wiretapping claims against Obama.
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Trump's mention of wiretapping drew attention away from U.S. intelligence agencies having said that Russia tried to help Trump in the election against Democrat Hillary Clinton by hacking leading Democrats and spreading disinformation.
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Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat and staunch privacy advocate, planned to ask Nakasone how he would respond to any order to create new warrantless wiretapping programs at the NSA, a Wyden spokesman said.
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The House and Senate Intelligence committees have said they are investigating alleged Russian involvement in the election, and the White House has asked Congress to include Trump's unsubstantiated wiretapping claims in its investigations.
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I'm saying the American people have a right to know on what basis the president of the United States said that his predecessor had broken the law by wiretapping Trump Tower,' McCain said.
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Sean Spicer just finished today's White House press briefing, raising eyebrows on topics from those wiretapping claims, Mike Flynn seeking immunity, sanctuary cities, questions on Russia, tax returns, and the failure of Trumpcare.
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All through this week, Kavanaugh repeatedly denied having any personal role in the Bush administration's legal justification for torture or warrantless wiretapping, but as a Supreme Court justice, he'll certainly be involved. —KS
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Phantom Secure, which has a public website promoting its encrypted email and chat service plans, advertised its products as "impervious to decryption, wiretapping or legal third-party records requests," according to court documents.
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Under pressure from FBI and Senate Intelligence Committee probes of his campaign's ties to the Russian government, Trump pushed back with the false allegation that Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower.
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Perhaps some people will be a little bit more cautious around their Google Home or their Amazon Echo or Apple HomePod, all of which amount to wiretapping devices according to some privacy experts.
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In those interviews, Trump said, among many other things, that "I don't stand by anything" and insisted that his allegations about President Obama wiretapping Trump Tower during the 2016 election had been proven.
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When Nunes then told Trump about the reports, the President said he felt partially vindicated over a tweet in which he accused President Barack Obama, without evidence, of wiretapping him during the campaign.
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In the tweets, Trump compared the move to McCarthyism, the draconian hunt for communists in the U.S. government in the 1940s and '50s, and Richard Nixon's ordered wiretapping in the 1970s Watergate scandal.
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Mike Flynn fiasco, the Trump charge about Obama wiretapping him, the firing of FBI Director James Comey, and the latest controversy over Trump's reportedly sharing classified information with Russians in the Oval Office.
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On his desk at the FBI, he kept a copy of a letter from Hoover for the wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr. -- a dark reminder, Comey said, of the bureau's abusive past.
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In 2013, however, the FBI made the argument that the communication services tech companies offered were no different than the ones traditional carriers offered, and thus should be subject to similar wiretapping law.
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They have made the specious argument that Trump was using "wiretapping" as a stand-in for general surveillance, which means that they will use any shred of information that suggests Trump was right.
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Comey, who had been leading the FBI's probe into potential ties between Trump campaign staff members and Russia, testified in March that the Justice Department had "no information" to support Trump's wiretapping allegation.
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In light of FBI Director James Comey's hearing on Monday, Seth Meyers takes 'A Closer Look' at the FBI's investigation into Russia's interference in the presidential election, and President Trump's bogus wiretapping claims.
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In 2004, there was a standoff between Mueller and Bush after he and other Justice Department officials threatened to resign if changes were not made to the National Security Agency's domestic wiretapping program.
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He has repeatedly warned it is a "deep state" witch hunt, accused ex-President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump tower and coined the phrase "spygate" to his campaign was infiltrated by FBI agents.
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Comey did not speak with reporters during public appearances in Boston on Tuesday and Wednesday, ignoring questions about the wiretapping accusation that Trump made on Saturday without offering any evidence to support it.
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They assert that various combinations of Russia-tied and Trump-tied people violated computer crime, racketeering, wiretapping, and even copyright statutes because of this conspiracy — and are seeking millions of dollars in damages.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer has sought to clarify the claim, saying that Trump put the wiretapping accusation "in quotes" and was more broadly referring to surveillance activities by the Obama administration.
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The investigation being mounted by the Senate seems increasingly serious, and Trump's efforts to mount a counteroffensive — like with his tweet falsely accusing the Obama administration of illegally wiretapping Trump Tower — are backfiring.
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As a result, much of his 2006 confirmation focused on his work with the administration, with lawmakers putting forth questions about his knowledge of the White House's controversial wiretapping program and detainee policies.
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McCullagh inserts many legal caveats into this piece, citing wiretapping laws (and their loopholes) and two-party consent laws (which differ wildly across states, so it's not possible to make a sweeping recommendation).
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An Obama spokesman denied Trump's allegation, and The New York Times reported that FBI Director James Comey had asked DOJ officials to publicly knock down Trump's allegation that Obama had ordered the wiretapping.
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Day 63 — March 223: The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee blasted Trump's still evidenceless wiretapping claim — on the eve of FBI Director James Comey's appearance before the House Intelligence Committee, no less.
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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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As the Treasury Department acknowledges, he has been investigated for money laundering and accused of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official and taking part in extortion and racketeering.
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The police claim that the clinic Ms. Raissouni visited was being monitored; it seems much more likely, given the prevalent practice of wiretapping activists and journalists, that Ms. Raissouni herself was under surveillance.
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"With respect to the president's tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets," Comey told the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee hearing.
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Burke's public defender has opposed the motion, arguing that recordings from home surveillance cameras like Ring violate the state's wiretapping law, which makes it a felony to audio record someone without their knowledge.
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Senior American officials told The New York Times on Sunday that Comey has said the president's wiretapping allegations are not true and asked the Justice Department on Saturday to publicly correct the record.
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"If wiretapping political opponents is a political offense, I look forward to reading that inspector general&aposs report because maybe it&aposs a different president we should be impeaching," Gaetz said on Wednesday.
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That means that if a government agency had a wiretapping order for your Signal messages, Open Whisper Systems would not have the key to decipher the messages and would be unable to comply.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Europe's top human rights court has faulted Greece for failing to fully investigate the death of a telecoms engineer in 953 during a scandal over wiretapping of the country's political leadership.
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COMEY: With respect to the president's tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets and we have looked carefully inside the FBI.
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WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday revived President Trump's unproven wiretapping allegations against the Obama administration, insisting that there is new evidence that it conducted "politically motivated" surveillance of Mr. Trump's presidential campaign.
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Unprecedented unmaskings, wiretapping opposition campaigns, spying on journalists, directing federal agency power against political opponents: All of these actions were committed by unaccountable federal agency personnel in pursuit of retaining power and influence.
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Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said they want to see any evidence of wiretapping by their March 20 hearing or they may also issue a subpoena for the records.
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Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said they want to see any evidence of wiretapping by their March 20 hearing or they may also issue a subpoena for the records.
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"With respect to the President's tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior Administration, I have no information that supports those tweets and we have looked carefully inside the FBI," Comey said.
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Capitol Hill On Capitol Hill, lawmakers were pushing forward with their own investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, which -- at Trump's request -- will also include an inquest into the wiretapping claims.
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The White House is making a spirited challenge for Kiselev's crown: from tales that Trump drew "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration" right through to the recent claims of Trump Tower wiretapping.
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The FBI asked the Department of Justice to publicly refute the president's claims, sources told CNN, because such wiretapping would be illegal since presidents cannot just order the eavesdropping of a US citizen's phones.
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Trump concluded his assertion by comparing Obama's "wiretapping" to Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal that resulted in the then-president's resignation from office in 1974 after he ordered a break-in of the Democrats' headquarters.
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Earlier reports indicated that Sean Spicer and national security advisor H.R. McMaster had apologized to the United Kingdom for Spicer's statement that British intelligence played a part in the alleged wiretapping of Trump Tower.
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Trump's unwillingness to back off his wiretapping tweet (now two weeks old!) is exacerbating differences with allies abroad and exasperating allies on the Hill, while heightening the risk of embarrassment when investigations are complete.
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When they go low, we go... Barack and Michelle Obama were spotted out and about for the first time since a spokesperson for the former president denied Donald Trump's unsubstantiated wiretapping claims against him.
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"As far as wiretapping, I guess, by this past administration, at least we have something in common perhaps," Trump said to Merkel, who looked bewildered as she stared back at him from her podium.
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Britain could also press Facebook and other internet services to provide a way to monitor or record encrypted conversations - akin to wiretapping traditional voice calls - which would move the debate into uncharted legal territory.
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So if Trump is correct, and the FBI is monitoring his communications, then this scandal is far more serious than ever imagined: Any such wiretapping requests would go through the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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The line of questioning occurred at all because Trump sent a series of tweets accusing President Obama of wiretapping his office at Trump Tower, an allegation the DOJ, FBI and NSA have all denied.
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They will now have to answer questions about an ongoing FBI investigation for months, and Trump's stubborn and insane refusal to admit his wiretapping tweets were trash continues to have serious real-world consequences.
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The NSA's inspector general, meanwhile, investigated George W. Bush's unconstitutional program of warrantless wiretapping—an assault on civil liberties that only became public when the inspector's report was leaked to the press in 2013.
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But instead of keeping quiet about the top secret wiretapping effort, Binney spoke out forcefully about the agency's illegal spying, becoming the first former NSA official to go on the record about the program.
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Op-Ed Contributor The Central Intelligence Agency's torture of detainees, and the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of Americans' international communications, were two of the most controversial programs our government implemented after Sept. 11.
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Oddly enough, many of those same Republican members of Congress just voted overwhelmingly to support Section 702, a portion of FISA that would appear to contradict the position of outrage over recent "wiretapping" claims.
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John Oliver is beside himself with annoyance at Congressman Devin Nunes and his part in the ongoing saga of President Donald Trump's wiretapping claims and the investigation into his team's potential collusion with Russia.
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The point of using an end-to-end encrypted messaging app like WhatsApp is that the messages travelling through the internet are unreadable to anyone who intercepts them, making wiretapping them all but impossible.
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That law regulates electronic spying on domestic soil — the interception of phone calls and emails — undertaken in the name of monitoring suspected spies and terrorists, as opposed to wiretapping for investigating ordinary criminal suspects.
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FBI Director James Comey told the US Justice Department on Saturday to reject President Donald Trump's baseless claim that President Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump's phones, according to The New York Times.
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We can wrangle over whether to use the term "spying" to describe sending informants to meet with a Trump campaign aide, George Papadopoulos, under false pretenses and subjecting another aide, Carter Page, to wiretapping.
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One official with direct knowledge of the events said Mr. Cohen-Watnick began combing through intelligence reports this month in an effort to find evidence that would justify Mr. Trump's Twitter posts about wiretapping.
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If people see a tweet about wiretapping or deportations, for example, and try to look up news articles about it, what they find often "only heightens the worry and perpetuates the cycle," he said.
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Therefore, when Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump's former national security adviser, spoke on the phone with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition, the government intercepted that conversation because it was wiretapping the ambassador.
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The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court first approved wiretapping Mr. Page, who had close ties to Russia, as a suspected unregistered agent of a foreign power in October 2016, after he had left the campaign.
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"While Pompeo attacks the Chinese Communist Party and proudly claims the moral high ground, he forgets about the NSA's notorious PRISM surveillance program and the wiretapping of America's closest allies," the Chinese diplomat added.
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That means Nunes — the lawmaker charged with leading an investigation into the administration's unfounded wiretapping allegations — used information he received from the Trump White House itself to publicly try to deflect blame from Trump.
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But Monday, Spicer was open to providing an interpretation for Trump's tweet, saying the President told Spicer he was referring to means of surveillance beyond wiretapping in his tweets accusing Obama of doing just that.
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Martinelli, a multimillionaire supermarket tycoon who has been out of Panama since January 2015, has cases pending against him in the isthmus nation for alleged embezzlement, wiretapping and illegal pardons during his 2009-2014 tenure.
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The request came a day after the President took to Twitter to accuse former President Barack Obama, without providing any evidence, of wiretapping his phones in Trump Tower in the weeks before the November election.
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If such a state-within-a-state exists, then even Ryan, Burr and Nunes, elected Republican members of Congress with very high-level security clearances, wouldn't know if Obama had authorized wiretapping on Fifth Avenue.
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RELATED: Trump stands by wiretapping claim during Merkel visit Democrats were quick to jump on Comey's remarks to hike pressure on Trump over his allegations, arguing that the President's conduct had "severely damaged" his credibility.
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At the time, Treasury said that Deripaska had been accused of unlawfully wiretapping a government official, taking part in extortion and racketeering, ordering the murder of a businessman, and being tied to Russian organized crime.
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Wiretapping, as Cecil writes in Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate, was expressly forbidden from the TV series that the bureau essentially coproduced in the '60s and '70s; that aversion continues to the present day.
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SKOPJE, Macedonia — Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of Macedonia submitted his resignation to Parliament on Friday, clearing the way for elections as the country tries to recover from a wiretapping scandal that paralyzed the Balkan nation.
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" The Policy page lists a few examples of what this means, including wiretapping devices, jamming or descrambling devices, jailbroken or loaded devices, and, then "promoting the sale or use of streaming devices with Kodi installed.
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Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein would inspire a revolution in American journalism by not accepting that the Nixon political machine was too professional and too smart to be behind a wiretapping operation at the DNC.
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SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia's president pardoned 56 government and opposition figures on Wednesday in a wiretapping scandal despite protests against the move at home and abroad, with the United States warning it could protect "corrupt politicians".
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Gruevski, 46, who led the ex-Yugoslav republic for almost a decade and quit a year ago amid a wiretapping scandal, will now have 20 days to win approval for his cabinet in the parliament.
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Image: GettyDonald Trump is still convinced that former president Barack Obama ordered wiretapping of Trump Tower last year, despite a congressional investigation and multiple intelligence agencies stating unequivocally there is no evidence of his claim.
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Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters after leaving the closed committee meeting on Tuesday that he had still not seen any evidence to back up Trump's wiretapping claim.
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Ties between Trump and Obama have unraveled in the beginning stretch of the new administration after Trump accused his predecessor of wiretapping the phones at Trump Tower, an unfounded allegation that Obama's representatives have denied.
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Buttigieg has maintained that releasing the tapes would violate federal wiretapping laws, and the settlement Boykins reached included a clause that stipulated the city did not admit to any wrongdoing regarding "disputed and doubtful" claims.
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Obama's former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who said he would have been in a position to know of secret wiretapping, denied a court ordered any surveillance of the then-GOP nominee, as well.
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In 2004, while acting attorney general (because his boss, John Ashcroft, was in the hospital), members of the Bush administration tried to pressure him to sign off on a renewal of the warrantless wiretapping program.
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"With respect to the president's tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets and we have looked carefully inside the FBI," Comey testified Tuesday.
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In between baselessly accusing former president Obama of wiretapping his phones and issuing Muslim Ban: The Sequel on Monday, President Donald Trump took some time to fawn over the largest oil company in the world.
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That, in turn, leads Trump to overreact—Comey's decision to matter-of-factly state that the FBI had no information that suggested that Trump's tweets about "wiretapping" were correct most likely led to his ouster.
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Richard Nixon's illegal wiretapping, exposed after the 1972 Watergate break-in, triggered a high-profile congressional investigation and bipartisan pressure for a special prosecutor, which eventually forced his resignation in the face of certain impeachment.
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" Finally, because wiretapping is so intrusive, the court must conclude that "normal investigative procedures have been tried and have failed or reasonably appear to be unlikely to succeed if tried or to be too dangerous.
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Intelligence agencies could have inadvertently collected and then searched Donald Trump's phone calls under a controversial loophole in surveillance law, experts say, even if it did not involve a wiretapping order from a federal court.
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Also, it appears the leaker would be protected by the District of Columbia's wiretapping law, which states that recording a telephone or in-person conversation is legal as long as one party agrees to it.
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Tom Cotton (R-OK) also took a shot at this attack by comparing Comey's silence to his decision in 2004 to offer his resignation over his belief that the Bush administration's wiretapping program was illegal.
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It's official: Each of President Donald Trump's claims about President Obama wiretapping him during the presidential election has now been officially debunked, under oath, by FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Adm.
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"Part of it is brought about by the president's own words in terms of accusing President Obama about taping him and wiretapping him, but we've got to get to the bottom of this," he said.
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The Justice Department first moved to impose more oversight over the FISA process in December, when its inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, released the scathing results of an investigation into the wiretapping of Mr. Page.
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The defining moment in Mr. Comey's career — until Tuesday night — came in 2004 during a hospital room standoff with White House officials who wanted to pressure the Justice Department to reauthorize a secret wiretapping program.
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"Just a few days later, he gets onto Twitter and starts with the conspiracy of President Obama wiretapping Trump Tower and then all the goodwill from that was erased," Kall said of Trump's unfounded claim.
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Now President Trump tweets conspiratorially about "leaks" and "wiretapping," fixated on the idea that his political rivals have acquired or released his secrets — and obsessed with the suggestion that he is somehow an illegitimate president.
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The docs, obtained by TMZ, also say Singer's notes demonstrate that "those agents attempted to bully him into lying and saying something different" from what he told clients prior to the FBI beginning its wiretapping.
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After the company was caught engaging in warrantless wiretapping in violation of privacy and wiretap laws under the Bush Administration, the laws were simply retroactively changed to help Verizon and AT&T avoid all liability.
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When Democrats raised the issue of Mr. Trump's Twitter posts accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping him — and Mr. Comey said the F.B.I. had "no information that supports those tweets" — Republicans railed against leaks.
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In an article announcing the action, the Times noted that the motion is unusual and that no wiretapping application materials have been made public since 1978, when Congress first enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
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President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his claims that the release of top-secret documents related to the FBI's wiretapping of former campaign aide Carter Page "discredited" special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
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Trump has previously accused former President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower, but the Justice Department confirmed in a court filing earlier this month that neither it nor FBI had any evidence to support that claim.
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In the Senate, Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr responded for the first time publicly Tuesday since President Donald Trump's accused his predecessor then-President Barack Obama of wiretapping his phone last year, without presenting any evidence.
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Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said on CNN's "New Day" that he'll subpoena information from the FBI over the wiretapping allegations if Comey does not provide information about whether there is any validity to the claims.
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Standing next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a Friday news conference, Trump showed that he was not ready to quit the wiretapping story, giving it another boost, even if it meant embarrassing a world leader.
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He alleges that members of the Tesla security team responsible for allegedly spying on Tripp were former employees of Uber previously accused of wiretapping competitors and pilfering trade secrets related to autonomous vehicles from rival Waymo.
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He threatened to resign from his position as FBI director — twice In 2004, Mueller famously threatened to resign if then-President Bush reauthorized a wiretapping program Mueller believed to be illegal, according to The Washington Post.
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Day 1: "carnage" ... Day 23: Gorsuch ... Day 14: Arnold ... Day 16: "so-called judge" ... Day 20: Nordstrom ... Day 30: Sweden ... Day 40: "The time for trivial fights is behind us" ... Day 44: wiretapping ... Day 50: jobs.
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Devin Nunes, has spent the week trying to help President Trump deal with the aftermath of the collapse of Trump's wiretapping allegations and the FBI's formal confirmation that it's probing the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
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SKOPJE (Reuters) - A senior official of Macedonia's secret police was sentenced to 18 months in prison for destroying evidence that could have helped identify who was behind a wiretapping scandal that brought down a previous government.
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Then at their joint press conference he joked, "As far as wiretapping, I guess, by this past administration, at least we have something in common perhaps," in reference to the Obama administration's tapping of German phones.
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He also relays how the NYT's then-executive editor, Bill Keller, and then-Washington bureau chief, Philip Taubman, received secret briefings from the government on the NSA's wiretapping program that misled them about the program's scope.
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Trump already wanted to fire Comey, most likely because—as multiple reports indicate—Comey had dismissed his wiretapping claim about Barack Obama and testified to the Senate last week that the FBI was investigating Trump's campaign.
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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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He has legitimated using the bully pulpit to make baseless accusations (Obama wiretapping him) and claims (massive voter fraud) that are not true, yet they make their way into our national conversation because he said them.
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After first trying to avoid comment about his initial claim — one of the most incendiary charges in recent US political history — Trump's own spokespeople are implicitly conceding that there's no evidence to support his wiretapping allegation.
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James Clapper -- The director of national intelligence under Obama has never been shy in offering criticism of Trump, clashing with him over the latter's public disparagement of intelligence officers, wiretapping allegations and views on Russian hacking.
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According to CNN's most recent reporting, the former President is perturbed by Trump's wiretapping allegations, but he's trying hard to bite his tongue -- save for a statement from his spokesman -- and give the new administration room.
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Opposition lawmakers say the bill would give the National Intelligence Service, which has a history of illegally wiretapping politicians, journalists and others, more power to monitor not just terrorism suspects but also government critics, particularly online.
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Wiretapping has profoundly shaped the course of American history from its earliest uses during the Civil War to its use to catch Prohibition-era gangsters to the widespread surveillance of Civil Rights leaders during the 1960s.
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Thailand is also working on a cyber security bill that would allow the state to conduct large-scale surveillance in the name of national security by wiretapping telephones and computers without the need for court approval.
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It would be "beyond the pale," Mr. Baquet said, if the Trump administration had subpoenaed phone records, or had gotten secret warrants for phone records, of New York Times reporters — or if they were wiretapping phones.
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Former Justice Department lawyer Thomas Tamm appeared on the cover of Newsweek in 2008, confirming that he was a source for the New York Times in its disclosure of President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program.
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Leaks can also be an emergency brake on policies that officials believe could be ill-advised or unlawful, such as George W. Bush-era programs on warrantless wiretapping and the Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq.
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Reporters were allowed into a meeting on Friday with Trump and House committee chairs, but the president ignored shouted questions about his wiretapping claim and former national security adviser Michael Flynn's work for the Turkish government.
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The House Intelligence Committee on Monday will convene for its first open hearing in its investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, which is sure to prominently feature questions about President Trump's wiretapping claims.
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His fall from grace came in 2100, when the drug squad started wiretapping two men, Yannick Dacheville and Gilles Benichou, following the seizure of 2000 kilos of cocaine in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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His fall from grace came in 2011, when the drug squad started wiretapping two men, Yannick Dacheville and Gilles Benichou, following the seizure of 100 kilos of cocaine in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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He argued that banning abortion would be unconstitutional; that the Second Amendment guaranteed individuals — not only militias — the right to own guns; and that warrantless wiretapping by the administration of President George W. Bush was illegal.
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It was the first public response by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to the scathing findings released last week by the Justice Department's inspector general about the wiretapping of a former Trump adviser, Carter Page.
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She continued, "I think he firmly believes that this is a storyline that has been reported pretty widely by quite a few outlets," citing wiretapping stories published in The New York Times, the BBC and Fox News.
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Attorney General John Ashford almost resigned in 2004 after two White House officials tried to push him to approve former President George W. Bush's secret wiretapping program — all while in the hospital for pancreatitis, according to Salon.
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Graham and Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on crime and terrorism, asked Comey two weeks ago to provide information on Russian activities and the wiretapping by Wednesday.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacted with a look of incredulity Friday when President Donald Trump suggested the pair had "something in common" over his claims that the Obama administration conducted wiretapping against him during the presidential campaign.
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Who can forget that as deputy attorney general for President George W. Bush, it was Comey who raced into a hospital and stopped top administration officials from persuading a sick attorney general to bless their wiretapping schemes?
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Macedonia's two-year crisis over a wiretapping scandal that toppled the government of nationalist Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, ended in June with the appointment of a pro-Western government of the Social Democrat Prime Minister Zoran Zaev.
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Ex-Department of Justice Lawyer Faces Penalties in Leak of N.S.A. Program | The District of Columbia bar is pursuing ethics charges against Thomas M. Tamm, who said he told a New York Times reporter about warrantless wiretapping.
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The biggest newsmaker at SXSW this year should have been FBI director James Comey, who was expected to face questions about Russian interference in the US election and President Donald Trump's baseless claims about Obama administration wiretapping.
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Trump's senior adviser and jedi of spin Kellyanne Conway not only doubled down on the president's wiretapping claims in an interview, she suggested the Obama administration may have used "microwaves that turn into cameras" to do it.
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The California Democrat also implied the White House's own presentation to him made him believe the White House might be trying to use the documents to bolster Trump's wiretapping allegations and distract attention from the Russia investigations.
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House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes apologized to committee members after going to the White House Wednesday with information about President Donald Trump's wiretapping accusations before sharing it with the committee, a Democrat on the panel said Thursday.
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Comey testified in March that the Justice Department had "no information" to support Trump's wiretapping allegation — the same hearing at which he made public that the FBI was investigating possible coordination between Trump campaign officials and Russia.
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"At least we have something in common, perhaps": Trump addresses wiretapping claim in news conference with Angela Merkel Senate Intelligence Committee announces it will hold a hearing on March 30 about Russia's meddling into the US election.
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Now then, a senior White House adviser boning up on the ins and outs of wiretapping for a big interview by watching Snowden on a DVD or streaming service like iTunes — where it's been available since Dec.
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Trump notably did not comment on the FBI director, wiretapping or Russia later Monday night during a campaign rally in Louisville, Ky., and he also refused to answer shouted questions about it Tuesday at the White House.
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Perhaps the best example of a series of tweets that hurt President Trump was when he accused President Obama of wiretapping him at Trump Tower, an accusation he made with no evidence to back up his claim.
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In 2008, FISA was expanded to accommodate changes in telecommunications technology, after Congress and the rest of America discovered that the Bush administration had been engaging in warrantless wiretapping for four years following the 85033/11 attacks.
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An agreement brokered by European mediators in July sought to resolve a political crisis prompted by a wiretapping scandal, which revealed fraud in the electoral system, government manipulation of the media and the judiciary, and other wrongdoing.
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The F.B.I. had determined that Clark was a false identity, had ransacked Clark and Martha's love nest and had even gotten a head start by wiretapping her parents' phone, which led them to the Woodley Park neighborhood.
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Increasingly, it's also remembered for illegal wiretapping and intimidation; extensive collusion with right-wing narco-paramilitaries; and the systematic murder of civilians to inflate the number of guerrilla deaths the military could claim for its success metrics.
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Siena police managed to thwart the operation after wiretapping the suspected dealers and overheard them complaining about the damage the hogs inflicted on their precious stash in the Valdichiana valley, according to Newsweek's report of Italian press.
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Lari informed Lo Voi's office, which started wiretapping the relevant suspects and learned that the scheme led back to a judge working inside the Palermo magistrate: Silvana Saguto, the head of the office for seized Mafia assets.
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Investigators were reportedly concerned that some of the intelligence collected by wiretapping Manafort included communications that indicated Manafort had sought Russia's help for the Trump campaign, but two sources told CNN that the evidence is not conclusive.
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The statute by which Congress legalized the Bush administration's post-9/11 warrantless wiretapping program, Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, is set to expire at the end of 2017 if lawmakers do not extend it.
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Wiretapping a phone without a warrant had been illegal since 1968, when Congress codified legislation designed to put strict rules in place to govern what the government could, or could not, do to investigate or stop crime.
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But the reaction was also mitigated somewhat by a certain cynicism in a country where wiretapping has been a time-honored tradition in politics, and allegations of spying by the government against its critics are not new.
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Mr. Mueller backed up Mr. Comey, then the deputy attorney general, in March 2004 after he threatened to resign when the White House overruled the Justice Department finding that domestic wiretapping without a court order was unconstitutional.
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Costas Tsalikidis, 38, was found hanged in his apartment in Athens in March 2005, around the time that Vodafone Greece told authorities of widespread wiretapping of much of the government, including the prime minister, via Vodafone's network.
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WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency said Friday that it had halted one of the most disputed practices of its warrantless surveillance program, ending a once-secret form of wiretapping that dates to the Bush administration's post-Sept.
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The group was accused of unauthorized surveillance of competitors, including recording private conversations and wiretapping, in an explosive piece of evidence revealed during the lawsuit between Uber and Alphabet's self-driving car company, Waymo, earlier this year.
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One senior law enforcement official from the Obama administration, who has direct knowledge of the F.B.I. investigation into Russia and of government wiretapping, said that it was "100 percent untrue" that the government had wiretapped Mr. Trump.
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Sometimes, they even reshape reality: Trump's tweets accusing the Obama administration of "wiretapping" Trump Tower, for instance, became a talking point for his surrogates that hijacked the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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" Trump, who is spending the weekend at his Florida resort, said in his tweets on Saturday that the alleged wiretapping took place in his Trump Tower office and apartment building in New York, but there was "nothing found.
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Those two bombshells, which are totally unrelated but share some weird parallels and the common thread of warrantless wiretapping, bookend two other ones about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
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Even if Nunes were a fanatical Trump-hating Democrat, though, it's hard to know what more he could have done to ensure that the Trump wiretapping scandal — which is enormously damaging to the president — stayed in the news.
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Washington (CNN)Six days after he accused his Oval Office predecessor of wiretapping him, President Donald Trump on Thursday again avoided questions about the charge, leaving his aides and allies still-struggling to explain his Saturday-morning broadside.
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But the truth is, he's just imagined himself to be a part of their work to escape the darkness of a career spent performing less-savory services for the government, including waterboarding, illegal wiretapping, and piloting drone attacks.
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SKOPJE (Reuters) - Under international pressure, the Macedonian parliament on Thursday changed the law to enable President Gjorge Ivanov to revoke pardons he granted to more than 50 people implicated in a wiretapping scandal that has shaken Macedonian politics.
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Former FBI Director James Comey, who Trump fired in May, said during his congressional testimony in March that while he was still in his position at the FBI, he had no information to support this claim about wiretapping.
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"As far as wiretapping, I guess by this past (Obama) administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps," Trump quipped, referring to disclosures during the Obama administration that Merkel's private communications were being monitored by U.S. intelligence.
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James Clapper, who as director of national intelligence from 2010 to 2017 would be the person to know if there was any wiretapping going on of Donald Trump, was unequivocal today on "Meet the Press" saying there wasn't.
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"Deripaska has been investigated for money laundering, and has been accused of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official, and taking part in extortion and racketeering," said a Treasury press release at the time.
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One such example is surrounding federal and state wiretapping laws, such as the Wiretap Act, which currently limits only the interception of the contents of communications, as opposed to metadata, which includes geo-location and personally identifiable information.
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The New York Times reported on Sunday that FBI Director James Comey asked the Justice Department this weekend to reject Trump's wiretapping claim because it was false and must be corrected, but the department had not done so.
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