On April 15 , 1991 Matthews and Langford appeared in federal court in Oregon, and both pleaded innocent to charges of conspiracy to commit murder and carrying out wiretapping.
In 2005, an employee of a private contractor carrying out wiretaps for the government came to see Paolo Berlusconi, Silvio's brother and the titular owner of the family newspaper Il Giornale, at his villa in Arcore.
Long before the revelation that the National Security Agency was carrying out wiretaps without warrants, potential enemies were acutely aware that our government was making every effort to intercept their communications.
Officials have recounted how some carriers have been unable to carry out wiretap orders and how the F.B.I. has spent tens of millions of dollars to help fix the problems.
The Glauco investigations and prosecutions were carried out almost entirely by wiretapping calls, which allowed officials to build a web of remote contacts but provided almost no context or details about the suspects' lives especially the face-to-face transactions that largely make up the smuggling business.
Privacy advocates contend that the government will use it to track citizens, a serious concern in a country where the government carries out extensive wiretapping and surveillance to track potential terrorists.
Administration officials said that in the wake of the surveillance law's expiration, most phone providers had continued to carry out valid wiretapping orders, but that at least one company had expressed reluctance over particular operations.
Steve Schofield Bradford Re your report on Verizon supplying the NSA with details of its customers (US orders phone firm to hand over data on millions of calls, 6 June), I'd recommend reading The Shadow Factory by James Bamford, which details the amount of illegal wiretapping carried out by US governments in recent years.
Mr. Salehi, the chief of administration in the president's National Security Council, had been caught on a wiretap carried out by the Major Crimes Task Force soliciting a bribe to intervene in an investigation into the role of a politically well-connected money transfer company in exporting large amounts of cash from the country.
