[FedCom] Re: Pop'Comm Columnists Phone Tapped??

[Steve Douglass]

It doesn't say anywhere in my text I said I didn't know how to 
monitor cell phone calls.

In fact since I was a writer working for a national publication that 
often featured articles on cell phone monitoring ( and the legal and 
moral issues involved) I think it was a given that I did indeed know 
how cellular phone calls could be intercepted.

I never told the agent I monitored cell phone calls nor did he ask me 
if I did. He only asked me if I had monitored the Rep's cell phone 
and made the tape. To both questions I answered "no."

So how is that lying to a federal agent?

-Steve Douglass









>You were doing good unitl you said you didn't know how to monitor 
>cell phone calls. This is where things get dicey because lying to a 
>federal agent is in itself a crime. [It's that obstruction of 
>justice charge that nearly everyone gets when dealing with the 
>feds.] The best thing to do is never to talk to the feds without a 
>lawyer. [Now you can lie to the cops all day as long as you are not 
>under oath.] The problem with the feds is you don't have to be under 
>oath to get in trouble with, using Nixon-speak, inoperative 
>statements.
>

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