[Boot Hill]

"Wiretapping in violation of the statute IS criminal."

According to the story is was not criminal till five days after the recording began.

--Boot Hill

[VaGunGuy]

The operative word there being "began"...Notice they didn't say it ENDED before the law took effect, which means it was criminal.

If I sell a drug called qwerty, and they pass a law making qwerty illegal but I continue to keep selling it, doesn't that put me in violation of the law? There's no grandfathering of surreptitious interception of verbal communication...

[Bonaparte]

Let me put it this way, BH: Do you engage in marital conversation with the expectation that you and your wife are being bugged or wiretapped?