House Of Bugging
April 26, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Fascinating bit of history in the Post obituary of Republican Party leader Mary Dent Crisp:
She knew the end of her tenure was coming with Reagan’s nomination as the Republican candidate and the increasing activism of the party’s right wing. As various factions struggled for control of the party, Ms. Crisp suspected she was being bugged. She heard beeping sounds on her telephone line at the Shoreham Hotel, where she lived, and on her office phone at party headquarters.
The news that electronic experts found a “magnetic field” and a suspect wire in the wall electrified political Washington, which well remembered the Nixon administration’s wiretapping of its political enemies. After a seven-month investigation, D.C. police determined that the suspicious wire at her office was a leftover from an interoffice bell system and that the noise heard through the wire came from its contact with water pipes.
I always thought the only weird noises heard at the Shoreham Hotel was Mark Russell’s act.
richarda said,
April 26, 2007 @ 5:04 pm
Notice that, according to the article, she was never a county, state, or national Party chair. She successively held a series of vice- and co- chair positions that, like the mandatory National Committeewoman from each state, are set-asides for women. All too often thse who hold these slots are left-deviationists on any number of issues.
Mary Dent Crispier said,
April 27, 2007 @ 8:49 am
TOKEN! TOKEN! TOKEN! TOKEN!