The young man felt a desire to take this further, to demand a court ordered wire tap.

The deputy commissioner then informed me that the OPP had learned the identity of the restaurant through a wire tap.

As indicated, IDS is performed through a wire tap, and is clearly an out-of-band operation.

It allowed the United States government to wire tap any communicational device, access the IP address of any computer's internet provider to track which websites its “insurgents” stumbled upon, and even inform government agents what books the citizens in "the land of the free" chose to rent.

"Not so fast," said officials of the US government, who deployed their National Security Agency (NSA) — tucked away behind clumps of trees along the Baltimore Washington parkway — to wire tap phone conversations between Benazir and her son Bilawal.

They can wire tap, look for Durand, and put Mulrooney under surveillance.

Wire tap

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