Alaska Republican Ted Stevens Caught On Tape By FBI

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Stevens had no comment. But the FBI released the following excerpt. Apparently, Stevens suspected he was being wiretapped, though to what extent wasn’t clear.

"I just the other day got… an internet was sent by a company at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these wiretaps going on with the FBI.

"They want to deliver vast amounts of money into my pocket. And again, my pocket is not something that you just dump money in. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of bribes. And if you don’t understand, those bribes can be wiretapped and if they are, when you put your bribe in, it gets to the FBI and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that bribe enormous amounts of wiretap, enormous amounts of wiretap."

Asked if he’d meant "tubetaps" instead of "wiretaps," Stevens replied somewhat tersely:

"NO!"