"Before you can wiretap a suspect, you need approval by a federal court, the defense ministry, and also the cabinet.
"How can you monitor wiretaps if you don't understand the voices on the other end of them?" While Perez makes a good point, I look at the issue a bit differently.
Ms. Doucett, who came off as open and unfailingly polite even to Mr. Pellicano, explained yet again that she'd been questioned about the litigation and Mr. Pellicano's role by Mr. Ornellas, that the press had called a few weeks later to ask about "you and wiretapping," and then, she'd received the threatening phone call about not talking to both Mr. Ornellas and the press.
Whistleblower Edward Snowden says you can wiretap Obama if need be, but the NSA has done a poor job of expressing that impact through its PRISM PowerPoint presentation.
If the government thinks you're under the control of a foreign government, they can wiretap you and never tell you, search your house and never tell you, break into your home, copy your hard drive, and never tell you that they've done it".
How do you explain wiretaps and influence-peddling and campaign finance?
They cannot and have not, by law and by rule, and — unless they, and usually it wouldn't be "they," it'd be the F.B.I., go to a court, and obtain a warrant, and seek probable cause, the same way it's always been, the same way, when we were growing up and we were watching movies, you want to go set up a wiretap, you got to go to a judge, show probable cause.
They cannot and have not, by law and by rule, and unless they — and usually it wouldn't be "they," it'd be the FBI — go to a court, and obtain a warrant, and seek probable cause, the same way it's always been, the same way when we were growing up and we were watching movies, you want to go set up a wiretap, you got to go to a judge, show probable cause….
That way, if your conversation is being screened by one law enforcement agency, you'll receive notification if a second agency tries to wiretap you as well.
If you wanted to wiretap someone in the valley, it was going to cost you more because according to Tarita, Mr. Pellicano would have to rent out an apartment and set up computers near his target phone.
