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On Thursday Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist confirmed our reporting from February last year. A new book from Mike Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman admits that a widely misunderstood phone call, on which Willis’ political prosecution rests, was illegally recorded. That means the entire prosecution could crumble with defendants having a new avenue to challenge Democrat lawfare.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday denied that his country's spies were responsible for surveillance devices found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington. His denial came after Politico, citing three former senior U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter, reported Thursday that the U.S. government had concluded that Israel was most most likely behind the discovery of the devices capable of tracking cellphone activity. NBC News was unable to immediately independently verify the report; the White House and State Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Netanyahu's office called allegations that Israel was...

A constant stream of changes and scuffles are roiling Donald J. Trump’s campaign team, including the abrupt dismissal this week of his national political director. A sense of paranoia is growing among his campaign staff members, including some who have told associates they believe that their Trump Tower offices may be bugged…

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A former CBS News reporter who quit the network over claims it kills stories that put President Obama in a bad light says she was spied on by a “government-related entity” that planted classified documents on her computer. In her new memoir, Sharyl Attkisson says a source who arranged to have her laptop checked for spyware in 2013 was “shocked” and “flabbergasted” at what the analysis revealed. “This is outrageous. Worse than anything Nixon ever did. I wouldn’t have believed something like this could happen in the United States of America,” Attkisson quotes the source saying. She speculates that the...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s reelection campaign asked the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office on Tuesday to investigate how Mother Jones magazine obtained a recording of a February strategy session. “Senator McConnell’s campaign is working with the FBI and has notified the local U.S. Attorney in Louisville, per FBI request, about these recordings,” McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton said in a statement. “Obviously a recording device of some kind was placed in Senator McConnell’s campaign office without consent. By whom and how that was accomplished presumably will be the subject of a criminal investigation.”

Edward Archbold was willing to do anything to win an exotic python — even eating bugs both crunchy and slimy. His competitive spirit ended in tragedy. After downing more than 20 giant creepy-crawlies, Archbold vomited, collapsed and died. The grand prize has been put aside in his name and will be given to his estate. Friday night’s contest at a Deerfield Beach reptile store started with a party atmosphere, with food and drink – besides the bugs. The insect-eating began with an eye on the prize: a female Ivory Ball python that sells for $700. Archbold, 32, wasn’t a “snake...

The CIA has just released a memo that reveals details of a highly sophisticated spy effort by a foreign government to obtain information from within the White House. Kim Jung Il, it has been learned, has funded the development of a tiny, remote controlled airborne vehicle that contains a camera and highly sensitive listening devise. The devise would literally be a “fly on the wall” within the White House. Unfortunately, to the horror of its operators, during an interview in the White House earlier this week, as the fly was seeking out a better listening position, President Obama, with ninja...

Members of an alleged British terror cell talked of blowing up London's famous Ministry of Sound nightclub, the Old Bailey has been told. The jury heard one defendant, Jawad Akbar, said they would not be blamed for killing "those slags dancing around". In secret recordings made by security surveillance teams, Akbar and Omar Khyam, another member of the alleged al Qaeda-linked cell, appear to discuss possible targets. Akbar says the central London venue was a soft target for a terror attack, according to the prosecution. Akbar: "What about easy stuff where you don't need no experience and nothing and you...

I was bugged by US, UK, France and Russia, says Butler February 27, 2004 - 1:07PM Former United Nations chief weapons inspector Richard Butler said today his office was bugged during private diplomatic conversations about the disarmament of Iraq. Mr Butler, who is now the Tasmanian governor, made the claim after former British cabinet minister Clare Short said the British intelligence service had spied on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The ABC has also reported British or United States intelligence services monitored former weapons inspector Hans Blix's mobile phone whenever he was in Iraq. Mr Butler said he was confident...

Posted on Wed, Oct. 08, 2003 Mayor Street's office buggedBy Thomas J. Gibbons Jr., Leonard N. Fleming and Craig R. McCoyInquirer Staff Writers A sophisticated electronic listening device with multiple microphones was found yesterday morning hidden in the ceiling of Mayor Street's City Hall office.Within hours, the FBI said that the eavesdropping device was not related to the mayor's race, but declined to explain how it knew that so quickly.Pressed whether federal investigators themselves might have planted the bug, FBI spokeswoman Linda Vizi said the agency "would not confirm or deny" whether that was the case.Street emerged from his...

Aug. 21, 2002 Ohio police precinct station bugged The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - Police summoned by neighbors to a house where the front door was observed standing open found it to be abandoned.Except for some tiny dwellers.Fleas. Thousands of them.Sgt. Marc Dopp said the three officers discovered they were covered with the bugs as they left the two-story house on Tuesday."He sat down in the car and said it looked like his pants were moving," Officer James Yoder said of a fellow officer.The infestation spread to five officers and five police cars. The Sixth Precinct substation had to be...

Biden Bugged During Late '80s By Mark PrestonA little more than a year after Sen. Joseph Biden abandoned his short-lived bid for the White House and led the charge against Judge Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court, Capitol Police discovered a listening device in the Delaware Democrat's former office. The bug was discovered under a table in 1989 before then freshman Sen. Trent Lott moved into the fourth floor suite that Biden had just vacated, the Mississippi Republican told Roll Call last week. "That was the table where we did all the presidential planning," Biden, who mounted a bid...