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

[lists at lazygranch.com]

Yes, I read it wrong.

Steve Douglass wrote:

>
> 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.
>>
>