{"id":13172,"date":"2022-04-08T13:19:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=205615"},"modified":"2022-04-08T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:42:08","slug":"wiretapping-a-secret-history","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/wiretapping-a-secret-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiretapping: a secret history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rhiannon Davies\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 08 April 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Wiretapping has a chequered past in the United States, from civil war soldiers who were seen as heroes for tapping enemy wires to the political scandals that rocked the 20th-century establishment. Brian Hochman, the author of <em>The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States<\/em> tells Rhiannon Davies about the history of electronic eavesdropping.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-205615-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/Wiretapping_USA-af4bc8c.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/Wiretapping_USA-af4bc8c.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/Wiretapping_USA-af4bc8c.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Brian Hochman is the author of <em>The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States<\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/the-listeners-a-history-of-wiretapping-in-the-united-states\/9780674249288&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Listeners-History-Wiretapping-United-States-ebook\/dp\/B09LMT922S?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-listeners\/brian-hochman\/9780674249288&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rhiannon Davies Published: Friday, 08 April 2022 at 12:00 am Wiretapping has a chequered past in the United States, from civil war soldiers who were seen as heroes for tapping enemy wires to the political scandals that rocked the 20th-century establishment. 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