[RobbyS]

The technology is different. Wire tapping refers to a situation that dpeends on the almost exclusive use of land-lines. This is more like monitoring short-wave radio signals, but even this is not a good comparison because the amount of information is vastly greater.

[antiRepublicrat]

The technology is different.

I know the technology. Again, it's what the definition of "is" is. Wiretapping is generally used in conversation to mean any interception of your telephone conversations. The sections of the United States Code collectively known as "wiretapping laws" cover any such interception of verbal or electronic communications regardless of technicalities, and the include foreign communications. Meese tried to say it's not tapping on a technicality. Clinton still haunts us.