Word: tap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tower suite reserved Thursday nights for the boys. Twenty guys converged in the room each week. They puffed on cigarettes and cigars, forming a smoky haze that mingled with the jazz music playing in the background. Over 30 forms of liquor lined the bar, and beer flowed from a tap. But the main attraction was always the card table in the middle of the room...
...wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and the Pentagon, Americans find themselves looking over their shoulders at every turn. Is it safe to fly? Safe to gather in a public place? Safe even to drink our own tap water...
Terrorists could try to tap into the more ample supplies of chemical arms believed to be stockpiled by Iraq and other outlaw states. But Tucker points out that the leaders of such countries would probably be reluctant to let weapons banned by international treaty out of their direct control; if they were traced back it could lead to swift retaliation. "We know Saddam Hussein is ruthless," he says, "but generally he is not reckless...
...fast, and not only because he needs to crack terrorist networks before they can strike again. He also needs to head off resistance from people across the political spectrum who think the Justice Department already has all the power it needs. The things that Ashcroft wants--expanded power to tap phones, sift through e-mail and detain or deport foreigners--don't just offend the A.C.L.U. Cynicism about government power is now the folk culture of the American right. In Congress, one of the first members to question Ashcroft's plans was Georgia's state-of-the-art conservative Representative...
...specified phone. In an era of "literally disposable phones," Ashcroft said, investigators need to be able to seek permission to monitor any landline phone, cell phone or pager that a suspect uses, or to go through e-mail from any computer he works on. But once the roving tap is okayed, no judge would further oversee how it was carried out, leaving the FBI to decide on its own how many devices to tap. What Ashcroft's critics predict is a world of "anticipatory monitoring" in which a multitude of innocent bystanders is caught up. It doesn't help that...