[Black Agnes]

Makes me wonder what the REAL story behind the Newt Gingrich cell phone call was:

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1997/01/1397

Just so happened to hear it on a scanner as they were following him?

Really?

In light of all this new information I kind of doubt that story now.

[willyd]

You cannot scan cell phones with a police scanner. You can only scan cordless phones.

Cell phones are encrypted with low level encryption...so the story is false.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35376/are-phone-calls-on-a-gsm-network-encrypted

[NVDave]

Yes, really.

Cell phones used to use analog transmissions, and it used to be easy to intercept a call with a 800-900Mhz scanner.