In addition, the investigation will range beyond the C.I.A. and F.B.I. to the supersecret National Security Agency, whose fleet of satellites and other sensors scoops up millions of hours of communications and conversations from around the world.
The documents appear to be intercepts of communications or conversations among various foreign diplomats and spies.
He spent his time retrieving hard disks from dumps and painstakingly storing the data of conversations and communications.
The indictments contain excerpts of conversations on smuggled cellphones or prison communications systems.
"In the course of the task force's ensuing work, it became aware of evidence — primarily in the form of electronic communications and taped conversations — that raised questions about the integrity of the marks," the report said.
According to the documents, the NSA intercepted telephone conversations and other communications of former presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy, as well as current leader Francois Hollande as they discussed the Greek debt crisis, appointments at the UN, the Middle East peace process, and even American espionage against France.
En Marche recorded tens of thousands of conversations, using the resulting data to craft Macron's policy platform and communications strategy.
Peter Thermos, chief technology officer of Palindrome Technologies, proved the point onstage: He played snippets of conversations recorded by snooping on VoIP calls, exploiting vulnerability in a common element in VoIP communications known as media gateway control protocol.
In their view, no communications technology -- whether conference calls or video conferencing, e-mail or collaborative software -- can match the richness of conversations across the table.
"They are brazenly and unforgivably violating my constitutional right and the right of my interlocutors to private communications and telephone conversations," he said, accusing them of "criminal activities".
