I’m curious about the technology involved in Blago’s arrest
December 9th, 2008 at 11:50am Georgette Braun
Just how were all of Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s conversations recorded? The Chicago Sun-Times reports day-to-day conversations implicating the Illinois governor.
Did an FBI agent posing as a janitor have to physically attach a device to Blago’s office phone?
Did an FBI agent posing as a carpet cleaner have to tap the phone at his home?
What about Blago’s cell phone? And the phones of the others involved in conversations?
Or can this all be done with an FBI agent flipping a switch somewhere?
How does such wiretapping work these days?
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1. Steve-o | December 9th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
It is all done at the phone company.
2. Georgette Braun | December 9th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Kind of takes the cloaked shadowy figures out of the drama doesn’t it.
I wonder if the FBI guys used GPS devices to place him anywhere during the investigation. I suppose they would have if they felt they needed to.
3. Georgette Braun | December 10th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Aha, but maybe they did have to install ‘bugs’ via FBI agents posing as carpet cleaners and janitors?
“We thought we’d never have the opportunity to install the bug or place the telephone tap and we made an urgent request for the Tribune not to publish that story,” Fitzgerald said, in this Chicago Tribune story about asking the newspaper to wait to publish some stories. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-blagojevich-tribune-cooperatdec10,0,2227525.story
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