Sentence examples for in wiretap from inspiring English sources

"In Wiretap Law's Stead, Uncertainty" (news article, Feb. 27) discusses the state of the expired wiretapping bill, yet doesn't mention a key point.

But John Wadham, director of Liberty, a civil-rights pressure group, points out that the public is unlikely to have confidence in wiretap evidence without a legally-based process of authorisation.

The Washington Post article quoted American officials saying that in wiretap intercepts shared with the Afghan authorities and played during the trial of a lower-level Islamic affairs official, Mr. Azimi was heard discussing bribes paid to the former Islamic affairs minister, Mohammed Siddiq Chakari.

"Contrary to the denials of the attorney general and his political defenders in Congress, the investigation found that information in wiretap applications approved by senior Justice Department officials in Washington did contain red flags showing reckless tactics and faults Attorney General Eric Holder's inner circle for their conduct," Mr. Issa said.

"The practice is deplorable, but like so many other laws relating to privacy, there are all sorts of loopholes in wiretap laws," said David Banisar, a lawyer with Privacy International, a privacy watchdog group based in London that focuses on surveillance by government and corporations.

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Representative Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat who is a frequent critic of Justice Department priorities, said that federal agents also complained often to her about delays in wiretap requests, a hallmark of the kind of complex investigations that used to be a mainstay of federal cases.

"Contrary to the denials of the attorney general and his political defenders in Congress, the investigation found that information in wiretap applications approved by senior justice department officials in Washington did contain red flags showing reckless tactics and faults attorney general Eric Holder's inner circle for their conduct," he said.