Yet in the Rajaratnam case the Feds deployed wiretaps as well as mass arrests.
She found that law contains numerous concessions to executive power, such as allowing emergency wiretaps.
By the time they arrived, Lamberth had already approved five wiretaps over his cell phone.
Lamberth said it's important to get wiretaps up immediately after an attack takes place.
Conversations pulled from wiretaps and acted out by puppets are punctuated with bleeps to cover profanity.
Its scrambling system promises to be even more opaque to wiretaps than existing encryption techniques.
By comparison, federal and state courts approved 3, 194 wiretaps in 2010, according to federal records.
Last month, he was convicted of publishing illegally acquired wiretaps in his brother's newspaper.
The package outlined by Ashcroft would ease restrictions on wiretaps and search warrant requests.
For example, the legislation would allow one court to authorize wiretaps for several jurisdictions.
As in that case, wiretaps have played a role in several other, pending insider-trading probes.
Saving money is one justification for the first proposed reform, which deals primarily with restricting wiretaps.
But the effort has been encouraging, with investigators using wiretaps and other aggressive methods.
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One of the company's former managers is now in jail after appearing in the wiretaps.
Wiretaps are not vital and have proven less effective than other intelligence gathering methods.
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Officials say their wiretaps suggest that Flores too was killed by men based in the United States.
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But nobody, not even the spooks, believes wiretaps and infiltrators alone are enough to defeat Islamist extremism.
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Beyond the specific facts they provide, wiretaps also cast a defendant in a negative light in intangible ways.
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Look at how extensive the federal government's powers that they sought, (UNINTEL) wiretaps, all kinds of counter-terror procedures.
The wiretaps, which breached the normally soundproof walls of hedge funds, told a breathtaking tale of selfish, short-term thinking.
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald initiated a criminal complaint against Blagojevich after listening to wiretaps of the governor's phone conversations.
Hayden will be excoriated for having used warrantless wiretaps to try to monitor the battlefield communications of such foes.
Wallin was arrested January 3 after an investigation that involved wiretaps, confidential sources and an undercover officer, Fein's announcement said.
Of particular interest in this case was the use of wiretaps by the Feds to gather evidence against the defendants.
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According to Reuters news agency, state prosecutors have released wiretaps which apparently show that her motive was to free up beds.
C. just after the wiretaps went up, in March, 2008, because he knew more about the Galleon case than anyone else.
The bell tolled just over a year ago when wiretaps were first used to bring insider trading charges against Galleon Group.
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Even without the wiretaps, prosecutors have a handful of witnesses who can testify at a trial set to begin in October.
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This is the first insider-trading case in which the government has used wiretaps, and they were pivotal in Mr Rajaratnam's conviction.
Wiretaps, which have increased almost tenfold since data was first reported in 1969, are only the tip of the surveillance iceberg.
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