Sentence examples for by wiretapping from inspiring English sources

The run-up to the election was overshadowed by wiretapping scandals and accusations of vote-rigging.

"The reality is that I heard about it from his own people, not by wiretapping him," Mr. Huddle said.

Mr. Mayfield accused the government of violating his civil liberties by wiretapping his home and filing misleading affidavits to justify his two-week imprisonment.

In 1928, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained by wiretapping a defendant's telephone at a point outside the defendant's premises was admissible in a Federal criminal prosecution.

Libertarians moan that the hyperactive attorney-general has hugely expanded the government's power to monitor citizens (by wiretapping their telephones and so on); that he has made it much easier to detain and deport immigrants and foreign visitors, particularly Arabs; and that he has ruthlessly accumulated power over the country's sprawling judicial system in his own hands.

The episode's title, "The Private Life of Deer," suggests that we have finally gotten the goods on these omnipresent beasts by wiretapping them or some such and can now toss them in prison for, say, tax evasion, much as the Treasury Department did with Al Capone.

Tellingly, the jury acquitted Gupta of the charges that were not supported by wiretapped conversations.

The Constitution allows the government to invade our privacy by, say, wiretapping our telephones, for law enforcement purposes in limited circumstances.

This information was gathered systematically, by illegally wiretapping phone lines and bugging hotel rooms, as well as plenty of other underhanded (and, again, unconstitutional) methods.

In the end, it appears that the jury was quite persuaded by wiretaps.

*More freely exchange evidence with intelligence agencies, including information obtained by wiretaps.