NY - In the annals of jaw-dropping East Hampton political miscalculation, the bugging of the town trustees office is a new low.
As indicated by an edited version now circulating, someone or multiple conspirators were able to make illegal secret recordings of conversations beginning in the early fall or perhaps earlier.
The technology and those responsible have not been discovered, but from the way the recordings and an associated partial transcript were organized there is a sense that it was aimed at particular trustees and not the nine-person board as a whole. more
Regularly scheduled TSCM inspections for electronic eavesdropping devices work. Here's why...
- Intelligence collection is a leisurely process.
- The bugging itself is harmless.
- The harm happens after the information is collected, and is then used against you.
Typical GSM bug. Easily planted. Call it from anywhere to listen in.
