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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC correction: Feds have been MONITORING, not listening in on, Cohen's calls.
They are collecting data on who he's talking to, not what the content is.
This would still require a high bar for approval.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)Will check the link periodically. What show did you hear this on?
Feds tapped Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's phones
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/feds-tapped-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-s-phones-n871011
Here is update
EDITOR'S NOTE: Earlier today, NBC News reported that there was a wiretap on the phones of Michael Cohen, President Trumps longtime personal attorney, citing two separate sources with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen.
But three senior U.S. officials now dispute that, saying that the monitoring of Cohens phones was limited to a log of calls, known as a pen register, not a wiretap where investigators can actually listen to calls.
NBC News has changed the headline and revised parts of the original article.
Freethinker65
(10,017 posts)emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)EDITOR'S NOTE: Earlier today, NBC News reported that there was a wiretap on the phones of Michael Cohen, President Trumps longtime personal attorney, citing two separate sources with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen.
But three senior U.S. officials now dispute that, saying that the monitoring of Cohens phones was limited to a log of calls, known as a pen register, not a wiretap where investigators can actually listen to calls.
NBC News has changed the headline and revised parts of the original article.
Freethinker65
(10,017 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Broken clock and all of that.
emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)For what it is worth this posts suggests they can read his texts
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10142051938#post7
BannonsLiver
(16,370 posts)Its not the first time either has reported breathlessly dramatic developments in the Trump saga only to later walk them back.