Word: wiretappings
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...really know what The Wire is you have to know what the wire, lowercase, is. In the first season of the series, in 2002, the wire was a wiretap, which a team of Baltimore cops used in a season-long probe of a drug gang. At first blush, it sounded too conventional for the home of The Sopranos. A police drama on HBO? What's next? A sitcom about a friendly Martian? "We were the 'gritty cop show,'" David Simon, the former police reporter who created the series, recalls of some dismissive early reviews...
...close. And he says we are "well beyond stupid," but he got most of the facts wrong about the debate over changing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Klein falsely claimed that the bills supported by Democrats in the House and Senate would require individualized warrants to wiretap calls made by foreign targets. Instead, the bills require such warrants only when the government targets Americans, something we should all agree is necessary. Klein was also flat-out wrong when he suggested that there is bipartisan agreement that the government should destroy any records on nontargeted Americans that it obtains using...
...light, got out of his car, and slashed the tires of the car behind him to thwart the German agents who were following him. One of the suspects, less than discreetly, chanted anti-U.S. slogans outside a nightclub frequented by servicemen while being watched. No need for a wiretap to pick that...
...Even when she has ruled for the government, Cooke has undermined its strategy. Prosecutors have understandably tried to keep the case focused on their primary evidence: the Mujahadeen Data Form and hundreds of wiretap recordings of men talking about spending $3,500 to buy "zucchini" and "playing football in Somalia." The prosecutors argue that all this is code for supplying Islamic terrorists in Somalia, Kosovo and elsewhere through a "North American support cell" allegedly headed by Adham Amin Hassoun - one of the defendants in the case - and joined by Padilla and the third defendant, Kifah Wael Jayyousi...
...Drawing on a partial transcript from a National Security Agency wiretap, journalists were able to reconstruct an ensuing phone call between the two men. After passing on the movie invitation, Bush then declined to "catch tomorrow's Nationals game" with Gore, as he had scheduled a "date" with the First Lady. When he also turned down a spare box seat at next week's U2 concert because he had to host an "ambassador from out of town," the star of An Inconvenient Truth grew irate, accusing the President of ignoring his calls on his cell phone. "You think...