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BREAKING: NBC News Issues Major Correction, Michael Cohen Was Not Wiretapped
by Aidan McLaughlin | 5:25 pm, May 3rd, 2018
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NBC News announced a major correction to a report out Thursday. The original report claimed that federal investigators had wiretapped Trump lawyer Michael Cohens phone calls. The correction stated that sources told NBC News investigators were monitoring the calls, but not actually listening to their contents.
In part of that reporting we said one of those phone calls was between a phone line associated with Michael Cohen and the White House, he continued. Now, three senior U.S. Officials are telling us it was not a wiretap. Instead it was what is referred to a pen register.
That means it is a log of phone calls that were made from a specific phone line or specific phone lines.
The initial report held that investigators obtained a court-ordered warrant to wiretap Cohens phones several weeks before FBI agents raided the lawyers home and office in New York and seized documents related to his work for Trump and dealings with porn star Stormy Daniels.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/nbc-issues-major-correction-feds-monitored-michael-cohens-calls-did-not-wiretap/
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BREAKING: NBC News Issues Major Correction, Cohen Was Not Wiretapped (Original Post)
orangecrush
May 2018
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htuttle
(23,738 posts)1. That's still a wire tap
It's called a pen register.
kentuck
(111,094 posts)2. It was a form of wiretap, wasn't it?
If they collected meta-data, they had names and numbers of everyone that talked to or from Cohen's phones, right?
They did not listen to any conversations but they still had the names and numbers.
As far as we know...
misanthrope
(7,417 posts)3. It's not the same thing and NBC was obligated to make the clarification
It's called responsible journalism.
unc70
(6,113 posts)4. They also have messages, location, email
They would not have the actual voice recordings, but most of everything else.