Clearly a violation of privacy, the law was clarified in 2007 to formally make pretexting illegal.
He told her that he "was aware of no laws that made pretexting illegal and no criminal prosecutions for such activities".
In both cases, these threats were fictional, but they made good pretexts for starting wars of conquest.
This show makes no pretext of being comprehensive.
Rather, delays are made a pretext to go on about immigration, and talk up terrorism again, as justification.
Police in the Michael Jackson child molestation case in 2005 tried to get his accuser, Gavin Arvizo, to make a pretext call to Jackson, but the boy refused.
Posing as an insurance salesman, one agent made a pretext phone call to neighbors; another contacted a police source; a third interviewed the maid at Maureen Reagan's rooming house.
The Conservatives have acted with huge cynicism: it was they who proposed devolving all Scottish income tax to the Scottish parliament, which they now make the pretext for giving English MPs the power of veto over income tax rates.
The patron was supposed to be learning Italian from [Girard]; this made a pretext for giving him, on their parting at Malta in 1811 ... a considerable sum of money".
The whole idea of intolerable threats that impose a need for constant protection- -- threats that are made a pretext for undermining the very freedoms guaranteed by the constitution -- must be confronted by the American press and the media if they are to regain the liberty they enjoyed twenty years ago.
