[2ndDivisionVet]

A distinction without a difference. My late father tapped calls on orders of subpoenas in Miami circa 1968 from the frame. This has been going on since Morse and Bell invented their contraptions.

[billyboy15]

Pay attention.

"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."

[dhs12345]

And it is significantly easy now with all of the modern “contraptions.”

[masadaman]

'since Bell and Morse' exactly. When Jack Ruby was in a Dallas hospital dying of cancer after killing Oswald, he said to his sister who was visiting from Chicago, "Let's give Hershey the business."

Within six hours the "man" a squad of FBI agents showed up at Hershey Chocolate headquarters in Pennsylvania demanding to see records, interview executives, board members etc.

Ruby died a few days later and his funeral was held at the Weinstein Bros. funeral Home on Peterson Avenue in Chicago. In charge of the arrangement was Herschel "Hershey" Weinstein, a classmate of Ruby's.

The FBI denied tapping Ruby's deathbed and ignored the Hershey raid. LOL