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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Harry Hope" |
| Date: |
09 Oct 2003 07:56:47 AM |
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Why did Bush's FBI bug a Democratic mayor's office? FBI won't say. |
From The New York Times, 10/9/03:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/09/national/09STRE.html?hp
U.S. Bug in Mayor's Office Roils Philadelphia Race
By JAMES DAO
Philadelphia and federal officials said on Wednesday that a listening
device found in Mayor John F. Street's office in City Hall had been
planted by F.B.I. agents in an investigation.
Mr. Street, a first-term Democrat, is locked in a bitter race for
re-election with a Republican businessman, Sam Katz, and the discovery
of one or more bugs in the office on Tuesday morning further roiled
the race.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States attorney's
office in Philadelphia have declined to explain the purpose or target
of the inquiry other than to say it was not related to the contest for
mayor.
Going on the offensive, Mr. Street's campaign said federal
investigators might have planted the device as part of a conspiracy by
the Bush administration to undermine the mayor's integrity a month
from the election.
"We are openly speculating and questioning the timing of this
discovery with the backdrop of the next presidential election," a
spokesman for the campaign, Frank Keel, said, "and quite frankly
wondering aloud could the Republican Party of George Bush, John
Ashcroft, etc., have engineered an incident like this that would cast
some doubt and questions on the current Democratic mayor at a critical
time in the election.
"State and federal Republican power brokers are pulling out all the
stops to get their Republican candidate elected."
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Has that ole Tricky Dicky Nixon smell, doesn't it.
Harry
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