AP: FBI tapped Sen. Stevens calls! Cue Fat Lady to sing "The Frog March"

[johnfunk]

Just off the wire!

:woohoo: :rofl: :rofl: :woohoo:

[MissWaverly]

1. hmm, methinks they had a warrant

no NSL xeroxed 1 million times piece of paper

[Ian David]

6. Or maybe they did NOT have a warrant.... on purpose... so he could escape on a technicality. n/t

[MissWaverly]

10. there is hope

our efforts are working, the states are initiating changes and as many of these rogues also were involved back home, they
will be squeezed thru state reform.

:-)

Look at the Bugman.

:-) :-)

[Canuckistanian]

11. There are no "technicalities" any more

Remember? Laws on warrantless wiretapping are about as quaint as the Geneva Convention.

[roguevalley]

16. in alaska, only one person has to consent to the wiretapping for

it to be legal. besides, this dawg has a stain for a heart and is as crooked as they come. Imagine having bush as your senator for twenty years. that's what its like. argue with him and get punched.

[BlooInBloo]

2. YouTube of CNN clip about it...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/053791.php

[L. Coyote]

3. WooHoo is right! AP = FBI Secretly Taped Stevens Calls As Part of Sting

"prosecutors also have thousands of conversations the FBI recorded while secretly wiretapping phones belonging to Allen and fellow VECO executive Rick Smith."

Just out on the AP:
FBI Tapes Stevens Calls As Part of Sting
By MATT APUZZO 09.20.07, 7:05 PM ET
WASHINGTON - http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/09/20/ap4141723.htm...

The FBI, working with an Alaska oil contractor, secretly taped telephone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens as part of a public corruption sting, according to people close to the investigation.

The secret recordings suggest the Justice Department was eyeing Stevens long before June, when the Republican senator first publicly acknowledged he was under scrutiny. ........

MORE: Will Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) Resign This Week? He finally has his road to nowhere.
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[Ian David]

5. Teddy Stevens Stevens Stevens is goin' to jail jail jail! n/t

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[noamnety]

18. Rape jokes aren't appropriate. Ever. (nt)

[Ian David]

4. Did they tap him using a series of tubes? n/t

[L. Coyote]

7. Hilarious. For the uninitiated

Series of tubes
From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

United States Senator Ted Stevens described the Internet as a "series of tubes", while discussing network neutrality.<1> On June 28, 2006, he used this metaphor to criticize a proposed amendment to a committee bill. The amendment would have prohibited Internet service providers from charging fees to give some companies higher priority access to their networks or their customers. This metaphor, along with several other odd choices of words, was widely ridiculed as demonstrating Stevens's poor understanding of the Internet.

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Series of Tubes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE

MORAN

[johnfunk]

9. The Tubes

Official soundtrack of College Young Rethuglicans

[Canuckistanian]

12. Well, it's not a truck

We know that for sure.

[L. Coyote]

13. Getting the news that the FBI has been keeping you under surveillance for many months

must feel a lot like getting hit by a truck for the longest serving Republican Senator in history!

He probably read it here first , while surfing the tubes :rofl:

[Blue_In_AK]

14. That is the story that will be appearing

in tomorrow's Anchorage Daily News (it's up on their website now). This is getting good.

[Blackhatjack]

15. You have to wonder how many leaks Gonzo had his fingers in before he left DOJ...

So many investigations going on, and so much to do to make sure nothing became public.

Makes you wonder if career professionals have found a way to evade the suppression that Rove and Gonzo were carrying out, now that both are gone.

[L. Coyote]

17. Let's Have a "SERIES OF TUBES" Party = Ted Stevens VIDEOS = HILARIOUS

Let's Have a "SERIES OF TUBES" Party on DU. Bring HUMOR = Ted Stevens VIDEOS
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