Illegal taps: and keep in mind "investigative" taps used to gather deep background information... by the time that information gets to a useable form, its origin is so far obscured as to be impossible to prove... and most importantly, keep in mind the simple matter of political and economic intelligence. The British GCHQ routinely tapped trade unions; NSA went after the civil rights movement, history is full of cases like this. If you don't know COINTELPRO, look it up and get scared. The main thing here is not whether they can use evidence against you in court, but whether they can gather extracurricular info and use it to fuck up careers, runs for elected office, campaigns on public issues, labor negotiations, and all kinds of other things which we expect to be able to do freely in a nominal democracy. Clinton has expressed a commitment to civil rights causes, so I don't worryu about his administration pullling another WAtergate or COINTELPRO, but if we ever got another bunch of zealous authoritarians in there...! -gg