wiretap

IPA: wˈaɪɝtæp

A connection installed on a telephone line or other communications system in order to allow a third party to conduct covert surveillance of conversations.

Examples of "wiretap" in Sentences

John Sununu, R-N. H., and others that certain wiretap and record seizure provisions violate privacy rights.
An unwarranted wiretap is perfectly legal — so long as you go to the FISA court within 3 days after the fact.
However, knowingly or not, the Brazilian people still refer to the old process - the "wiretap" - as it still exists.
Sorry – don’t have a problem with that. if a wiretap is actually “related to al Qaeda”, then there should be no problem getting a supoena.
From what I understand, the acutal process of apply for and recieving permission to wiretap is so slow, that by the time you got such permission, the opportunity would be gone.
"The word wiretap strikes fear in the hearts of everyone, even the innocent," said Brad Balter, who runs Balter Capital Management LLC, a Boston-based firm that allocates clients 'money to hedge funds.
Today it's John Ashcroft's Justice Department, also invoking "national security," that hopes to seize the phone records of Judith Miller and Philip Shenon of The Times, claiming that what amounts to a virtual wiretap is warranted by articles about Islamic charities and terrorism published nearly three years ago.