Half of the phone wiretaps set up in the United States in 2013 were authorized in only four states, according to a report released this month that details last years intercepted wire, oral, and electronic communications. California accounted for more than a quarter of the total and New York made up 12 percent, while both Florida and Nevada contributed six percent of the 3,576 requests authorized by federal and state government. The vast majority of the wiretaps were authorized in narcotics cases, and only five states — Hawaii, Montana, both North and South Dakota, and Vermont — had no requests at all. The number of wiretaps authorized in Nevada was comparatively high
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