In another slide, he appealed to Czech authorities for aid, saying, "The director general urgently appeals to the Czech Republic's bodies to help restore legal broadcasts by putting an end to the illegal action using all appropriate means".
Humphrey and his wife have been detained since July last year on suspicion of using illegal means to collect data.
Hacking was "rife" at each of the titles by 1999 at the latest, he said, adding that the case was about "the systematic gathering of private information for profit, using illegal means".
There has been a distressing drumbeat of news about hedge fund firms using illegal means to gather insider information, or data about a company that the public is not yet aware of (think SAC Capital).
Beginning in 1968, the FBI undertook an effort called "COINTELPRO" -- short for "counter-intelligence program" -- that used such illegal means as warrantless wiretapping, theft, forgery, agents provocateurs, and worse -- to disrupt the lawful civil rights, Black-liberation, and antiwar movements.
They used all legal and illegal means, including cross burnings, arson, and physical attacks, to keep blacks out of their neighborhoods.
The broad employment of brutal techniques, coupled with the high profile and the urgency of the hunt for Guzmán, makes it seem all the more plausible that Mexican authorities used unsavory, and illegal, means to pursue him.
Anti-hunting campaigners warned that some hunts were likely to use illegal means to try to get round the law.
The key question raised about Whitewater and Travelgate was not whether Clinton had done anything actually wrong, but whether she had used illegal means to try to keep the media from finding out.
The week before that, Mueller indicted thirteen Russian nationals on charges related to their involvement in the Internet Research Agency, a social-media mill, alleging that it used illegal means to promote Trump's candidacy.
