Hidden Microphones Exposed As Part of Government Surveillance Program In The Bay Area
May 13, 2016 6:24 PM
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Hidden microphones that are part of a clandestine
government surveillance program that has been operating around the Bay
Area has been exposed.
Imagine standing at a bus stop, talking to your friend and having
your conversation recorded without you knowing. It happens all the
time, and the FBI doesn’t even need a warrant to do it.
Federal agents are planting microphones to secretly record conversations.
Jeff Harp, a KPIX 5 security analyst and former FBI special agent
said, “They put microphones under rocks, they put microphones in trees,
they plant microphones in equipment. I mean, there’s microphones that
are planted in places that people don’t think about, because that’s the
intent!”
FBI agents hid microphones inside light fixtures and at a bus stop
outside the Oakland Courthouse without a warrant to record
conversations, between March 2010 and January 2011.
Federal authorities are trying to prove real estate investors in San
Mateo and Alameda counties are guilty of bid rigging and fraud and used
these recordings as evidence.
Harp said, “An agent can’t just go out and grab a recording device
and plant it somewhere without authorization from a supervisor or
special agent in charge.” (...)
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