Trump used the word “wiretap” as shorthand. The NSA doesn’t need a wiretap. They have a fire-hose of all the data in the world. All they had to do was tune in.
yep, the correct phrase is “intercept.”
President Trump uses colloquial terms and common language so that most Americans can follow the basics of the message.
If terms of metadata, network access nodes, packet stripping, etc. were used, the message would be lost on a large part of the public.
But most everyone can understand the term ‘wiretap’.
I have no problem with the President’s word usage but he is mocked as being uninformed and unsophisticated when in fact he reaches a huge swath of the population using simplified terms, reaching a population who don’t care to know the jargon of networks and who don’t need to know the jargon, all that is needed is to understand the crime.
Bingo.