11.   Rylander asked Steven Koebele to leave after learning of the secret recordings, her office said, and the tapes were all destroyed.

12.   The decision was made after customers expressed concern about the secret recording.

13.   The secret recording Lipset made of his conversation with the dissident put the lie to the charge.

14.   Unless a special warrant is issued, secret recordings are illegal when none of the parties to a conversation are aware of the taping.

15.   A lawyer for Blanton asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to exclude other secret FBI recordings from the trial.

16.   Cohen said he plans to file a request for any affidavits reviewed by Alvarez before the judge authorized the secret recordings.

17.   Defense attorney John Robbins said news reports about secret FBI recordings of his client, Thomas Blanton Jr., had tainted the jury pool.

18.   The agent was making secret recordings of their phone calls, evidence that prosecutors say exposes the defendant as a career thug.

19.   Despite all the hoopla surrounding the recordings, not a note has slipped out of the secret recordings prior to the official release.

20.   Vilja Laanaru, an aide to Savisaar, resigned from her post late Tuesday after announcing that she had made the secret recordings between Savisaar and other politicians.