In 1999 it began allowing the use of electronic eavesdropping to combat organised crime.

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That made the call susceptible to electronic eavesdropping by John Martin, a school maintenance man from Fort White, Florida, and his wife Alice, a teacher's aide.

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In 1990 just freed Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress met there, believing the winery to be one of the few places they could be safe from electronic eavesdropping.

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In May, the FCC received a complaint from Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy advocacy group, asking it to investigate whether Google violated federal communications law designed to prevent electronic eavesdropping.

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But if you read the history of this act, the legislative history, you can see where the attorney general at the time, Griffin Bell, testified about the bill before the House Intelligence Committee, and what he said was that this bill eliminates the issue of whether a president has an inherent right to do electronic eavesdropping.

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Not only had it decided to kill an electronic eavesdropping plane it was developing with the Navy to home in on hostile emitters, but it also moved to terminate both of its next-generation air defense systems because threats had not evolved as expected, and drastically scaled back one version of a joint radio crucial to battlefield connectivity.

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