Wiretapping to gather compromising material on political opponents is common in Ukraine, Russia and other former Soviet republics.
Gray was succeeded by William Ruckelshaus, a much tougher nut who discovered that Felt had leaked details of the FBI's illegal wiretapping to the New York Times.
As cell surveillance has ballooned, federal and local officials have come to rely less on wiretapping to eavesdrop on conversations, probably because cell tracking is less time consuming and less legally difficult to manage.
From wiretapping to the prosecution of the Vietnam war, our crimes have been started & carried out by men zealously attempting to serve as they have been taught to serve.
The Justice Department had never before used wiretapping to pursue insider trading, and Mr. Rajaratnam's lawyers have asked the judge to prohibit the tapes from being used at trial.
The document said analysts should keep descriptions of why the people they are targeting merit wiretapping to "one short sentence" and avoid details like their names and supporting information.
