Meaning of wire-tap | Babel Free

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“Subordinate to this argument is the violation of a variety of state and federal statutes, including Section 605 of the Communications Act of 1934, which expressly forbids the use of a wire-tap.”

“Housed in the old Air Ministry building, it was said that even Himmler had to obtain Goering's permission to put a wire-tap on someone, and I strongly suspected that it was through this particular facility that Goering continued to add to the 'reservoir of intelligence' that Diels had left to his erstwhile master.”

“A police wire-tap that enmeshed some of Turkey's most powerful in 2012 led to cumulative sentences totalling more than 42 years being handed down to 93 officials, players and agents for match-fixing, bribery, extortion and membership of a crime syndicate.”

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