Now it turns out that he has had his phone bugged for nearly a year by investigating judges.
He also dwelled on the potential for cellphones to serve as secret monitoring devices, saying everyone is carrying a "combination phone bug, listening device, location tracker and hidden camera".
The phone bugged out, as little puppy dog filter faces quickly popped up and disappeared all over the scarf's fabric on the iPhone screen. .
Basic supplies needed would be spare cash (about $25 is enough), a cell phone (bug-free), a scarf (for a quick disguise), a tape recorder (only if you do not have one on your phone), a digital camera along with additional batteries,a dust rag (clean off finger prints), and a notebook and pen.
Rebus was desperate to phone his good pal, Ronald McKay of the Scotsman, but after that clumsy phone-bugging operation, another plot hatched drunkenly at Muirfield, he just couldn't face his old friend.
Bureau agents constantly stalked her and had her phones bugged and homes broken into.
Police had bugged phones, bugged cars and even bugged the waiting room where the parents met after their initial police interviews.
"The hell they went through during the campaign, the scrutiny they're under all the time – getting followed in the street and their phones bugged – I think they are the true heroes because they have to live there," he said.
Allegations of spying, phones bugged and documents seized - these are some elements of a case that is being heard in The Hague.
But of course, while this might explain some of the spying, it does not explain eavesdropping on Angela Merkel's phone or bugging EU offices.
The number of surveillance operations carried out by police, such as phone taps, bugging, lengthy stake-outs and undercover work many of which are used to catch drug dealers—has fallen, from 14,000 in 2011 to 8,300 in 2015.
