Wiretapping Quotes

Wiretapping has always been legal -- the government can wiretap today and they will wiretap tomorrow. We don't think it should be illegal, we just believe there are other ways to go about it without redesigning the entire system. - Wendy Wigens

Wiretapping has a long history of enthusiastic use in France. - Stewart Baker

What we do know about that pervasive wiretapping virtually compels the conclusion that the president of the United States of America has been breaking the law repeatedly and consistently. - Al Gore

We're alleging the violation of multiple federal statutes regarding wiretapping and privacy of communications records. We're saying that by giving direct access to key telecom facilities in the U.S., AT&T gave the NSA access to nearly all of the communications going over the AT&T network. - Kevin Bankston

We set up a wiretapping operation in a flophouse where we listened to their conversations, which were in German, and then translated and recorded the conversations of the Nazi spies. - John Orton

To simply exclude communications from the coverage of FISA and allow secret wiretapping without a warrant would be a clear violation of the 4th Amendment. - Kate Martin

They have a lot of authority to do that already, and the border security problems are exactly the types of crimes that they already have authority to do the wiretapping for. - Scott Henson

There are causes worth fighting for even if you know that you will lose. Unless you are willing to accept torture as part of a normal American political lexicon, unless you are willing to accept that leaving the Geneva Convention is fine and dandy, if you accept the expansion of wiretapping as business as usual, the only way to express this now is to embrace the difficult and perhaps embarrassing process of impeachment. - Richard Dreyfuss

The wiretapping really changed things. I think we're one moderate-level scandal away from a large outcry for impeachment. - Bob Fertik