Police and telecommunication officials confirmed on Thursday that a bugging device had been discovered attached to the telephone lines of former president Corazon Aquino in Quezon City.
Technicians found the device installed inside a main junction box on Times Street, where telephones in Aquino’s neighborhood are connected. The report said the technicians removed the device from the PLDT box and brought it to their office where they confirmed that it is an electronic listening device.
The back story...
Aquino (who suspects this was an illegal government operation), once one of President Arroyo’s closest allies, became one of the critics of the administration at the height of the "Hello Garci" controversy in July 2005. (more)
The former president had called on Mrs. Arroyo "to make the supreme sacrifice" and turn-over the presidency to Vice-President Noli de Castro at the height of the scandal triggered by taped conversations between the President and then Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano that purportedly showed that they conspired to rig the 2004 presidential election.
