This is a developing story. Among the two largest contributors to Baghdad Jim’s legal defense fund last year were Jim Sinegal, of Costco, and one (note that there are two in the area)William Gates.
More on the blog.
I never bought the idea that the elderly couple actually recorded the conversation. I think the Democrats had an active surveillance going on Gingrich - and those two dupes were “cut outs”. I saw the news conference on C-SPAN with the two “activists” and their conversation, in discussing the happenstance capture of this call was totally devoid of any technical language to describe the details (type of scanner, frequencies scanned, taping mechanism/equipment, etc.). It didn’t pass the smell test. We all know scanner geeks and they cannot talk about their hobby without littering the description with jargon. These two geezers couldn’t convey that they know how to turn it on much less scan the right frequencies for cell calls.
That said - many thanks to Rep. Boehner for his dogged pursuit of McDermott - this case was at the SCOTUS 3x. It took a lot of $ and a lot of dedication to see this through.