Officials say the information from Ms. Tsarnaeva's texts would have allowed them to get wiretapping authority.
But then a reporter asked about Senator Feingold's call for censure over the warrantless wiretapping program.
Cell phones, for instance, the major target of wiretapping, have their wireless signals encrypted by default.
The haphazard basis on which the new legislation on wiretapping is proposed is striking.
The White House now says that there will be court supervision of this wiretapping of suspected terrorists.
However, the charge Mr McTiernan was found guilty of was lying to the FBI and not wiretapping.
Christopher Chaney, 35, from Jacksonville, Florida, admitted nine charges including unauthorised access to a computer and wiretapping.
The European Court has already picked up on some of the gaps in the statutory controls on wiretapping.
The statute of limitations for wiretapping crimes is typically five years, according to CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin.
Both Democratic and Republican critics have said Gonzales also gave misleading testimony to Congress about a controversial wiretapping program.
The interior ministry confirmed last week that a wiretapping operation codenamed "Gorilla" took place, and that it was legal.
The main reason Skype included high-level encryption wasn't a fear of wiretapping, says a spokesman for the Estonian programmers.
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Activists and politicians have questioned whether all this violates privacy or wiretapping laws.
He is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence for racketeering, conspiracy and wiretapping.
In 2005, leaks to the New York Times helped to reveal that US intelligence was conducting wiretapping without warrants.
Mr. Pellicano's a Hollywood private eye who's accused of illegally wiretapping phone calls on behalf of some of his clients.
But once intercepted traffic is presented as evidence, it is sure to reignite the debate over civil liberties and internet wiretapping.
In all fifty states under the Federal Wiretapping statute, at least one party must consent to a recording being made covertly.
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The judge compared it to warrantless wiretapping of a phone call where police have the permission of one of the participants.
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Railroads, slavery, banks, women, free markets, privacy, health care, wiretapping: not there.
The investigation brought widespread complaints that police wiretapping is out of control.
Halperin obviously feels a special passion born of personal experience about wiretapping.
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In 1986, The Electronic Communications Privacy Act updated federal wiretapping law in an effort to protect the Fourth Amendment rights of cell phone users.
Last August, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted to require companies that offer VoIP service to provide police with technological backdoors for wiretapping access.
Die Hard director John McTiernan has lost his appeal to have a one-year prison sentence overturned for lying to the FBI in a wiretapping case.
Had Mr Gonzales, when he was White House counsel, tried to push a bedridden John Ashcroft, then the attorney-general, into approving a controversial wiretapping programme?
The team has come under fire for bounty systems and wiretapping, not to mention the many lawsuits and an ongoing investigation by the Freeh Group.
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He was responding to a report in the Italian weekly magazine Panorama claiming that there had been a large-scale wiretapping and surveillance operation during the investigation.
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