Posted on 05/03/2018 2:38:54 PM PDT by janetjanet998
EDITOR'S NOTE: Earlier today, NBC News reported that there was a wiretap on the phones of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal attorney, citing two separate sources with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen.
But three senior U.S. officials now dispute that, saying that the monitoring of Cohen’s phones was limited to a log of calls, known as a pen register, not a wiretap where investigators can actually listen to calls.
NBC News has changed the headline and revised parts of the original article.
It’s pretty much all digital in 2018. They don’t have to have to have fake telephone repairman go onto the premises and physically install wiretaps these days. They’ll just digitally pick out the calls they’re interested in downstream.
Don’t believe them. They collect everything.
No, they're not the same thing. "Monitored" means they use a so-called pen register, which records the length of all calls, and the phone numbers of all incoming and outgoing calls, but doesn't record the content of those calls. Legally, much easier to do than wiretapping.
But three senior U.S. officials now dispute that, saying that the monitoring of Cohen’s phones was limited to a log of calls, known as a pen register, not a wiretap where investigators can actually listen to calls.
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Well, of course. That makes it all better. For a moment there I thought we had a banana republic where the State Security apparatus was wiretapping the President. Thank goodness they’re only “registering “ (recording) the calls. No one in the FBI is sitting there 24/7 with a headset on listening. That would be a bit much. But the FBI recording conversions between the President and his lawyer; that’s perfectly fine... Nothing wrong at all. Happens every day.
Rush was right.
Can’t wire tap at cordless phone just like those rat operatives who taped nudes phone call with a
There a computer apps now that will monitor your phone logs
Not buying it- they can say they didn’t listen but I wouldn’t put anything past these witch hunters. Who is going to make them prove they didn’t listen into the calls?
No doubt they are listening to Melania too.
Yup.
“Pen Registers”, those were the good old days. All done electronically now with the stroke of a keyboard.
Himmler’s boys doing what they do, that’s all.
Of course, but lawyers still use the old-fashioned term.
18 U.S. Code § 3121 - General prohibition on pen register and trap and trace device use; exception
US Code
(a)In General.—
Except as provided in this section, no person may install or use a pen register or a trap and trace device without first obtaining a court order under section 3123 of this title or under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.).
(b)Exception.—The prohibition of subsection (a) does not apply with respect to the use of a pen register or a trap and trace device by a provider of electronic or wire communication service—
(1) relating to the operation, maintenance, and testing of a wire or electronic communication service or to the protection of the rights or property of such provider, or to the protection of users of that service from abuse of service or unlawful use of service; or
(2) to record the fact that a wire or electronic communication was initiated or completed in order to protect such provider, another provider furnishing service toward the completion of the wire communication, or a user of that service, from fraudulent, unlawful or abusive use of service; or
(3) where the consent of the user of that service has been obtained.
Or they are denying and covering their tracks because Rudy said that it had to be BS because they'd be toast if they really did it.
Or they are denying and covering their tracks because Rudy said that it had to be BS because they'd be toast if they really did it.
And it is significantly easy now with all of the modern “contraptions.”
Yah, but admit only to metadata and the like.
It’s just a coincidence the investigators act as if they have a transcript.
“Who wants to bet one of the “top federal officials” is Mueller trying to cover his ass?”
That makes perfect sense.
A suicidal coincidence; Rudy knows. They’re in deep doo-doo now.
Let’s see how it plays out.
This means they wiretapped him without a warrant. Likely took illegally gotten info to court to get office raid warrant.
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