FBI taped more than 100 Stevens phone calls

[Tesibria]

Source: Anchorage Daily News

WASHINGTON - FBI agents taped more than 100 phone conversations involving Sen. Ted Stevens as part of their public corruption investigation, Stevens' attorneys said today.

The FBI's trove of secretly recorded conversations has already been the highlight of trials in Alaska, but the size of its collection against Stevens has until now been unclear. The sometimes-graphic conversations between hard-drinking oil contractors and corrupt Alaska politicians helped the Justice Department send three state politicians to prison.


The calls involving Stevens could be played in court this month when the Senate's longest-serving Republican stands trial on charges of lying about hundreds of thousands of dollars in home renovations and other gifts he received from an oil contractor.

The FBI did not tap Stevens' phone but did tap several phones belonging to contractors in the case. Out of 2,800 intercepted phone conversations, Stevens was recorded 105 times, his attorneys wrote in court documents.

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[HopeHoops]

1. And not ONE falafel reference!

But he does have a wide stance!

[Misskittycat]

2. Maybe one of them is with Sarah Palin.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. probably

since he endorsed her

[Phred42]

3. Palin on any of those calls?

:shrug:

[boomerbust]

4. Maybe

She was tight with Uncle Teddie until she threw him under the bus.

[L. Coyote]

6. Or still is since she petended to throw him under the bus. That would make

an interesting conversation. Who knows, the Nixon tapes may have to take the back seat to the new revelations.

Already we know that Cheney is implicated in the illegalities surrounding the gas pipeline, Palin's pet project.....

[MilesColtrane]

7. I find it odd that at some point Stevens became the focus of the investigation...

...and yet his phones were never tapped.

Perhaps orders came down from on high to avoid any Republican "collateral" damage?

If they had tapped Stevens' phone they may have gotten unwanted evidence of crimes on half of the Republican Senators, most of the Alaska legislature, and Governor Palin.