His paranoia may be understandable; over the past week Turkey's elite has been rocked by tales of politicians, judges and journalists being wiretapped.
Hollywood is buzzing about Mr Grey, the boss of Viacom's film studio, Paramount, and his entanglement in the Pellicano affair, in which a famous Hollywood detective, Anthony Pellicano, investigated and allegedly wiretapped movie stars and producers, their wives and lowly assistants.
Most worryingly, wiretapped conversations published in the Italian press suggested the governor had a close relationship with BPI and its boss (until recently), Gianpiero Fiorani.
A New York Times report claiming that Mr Bo wiretapped phonecalls between China's president Hu Jintao and senior officials visiting Chongqing reiterated the fact that Mr Bo is now politically finished.
Extracts from the dancer's wiretapped conversations were published in the press, including a comment from one woman that the prime minister had "even become ugly".
Cetin Soysal, a CHP deputy, says at least 3,000 people, among them AK officials, have been wiretapped in recent years.
A series of leaked transcripts of wiretapped conversations appeared to show Italy's prime minister boasting about his sexual prowess and saying that he governed the country in his "spare time".
She served for a year as the director of DAS, the country's domestic intelligence agency, before resigning in 2008 following reports that the service had illegally wiretapped conversations of opposition politicians on her watch.
As well as creating undercover LR accounts, they wiretapped internet connections and executed search warrants for e-mail accounts and internet service providers.
He wiretapped citizens without authority, secretly permitted the use of torture and dismissed prosecutors on political grounds.
The conviction of Mr Gupta required the painstaking accumulation of trading records and phone calls as evidence; a number of witnesses, including a former McKinsey colleague of Mr Gupta's who had already confessed to insider trading; and three wiretapped conversations.In this section When the chips are down Gas, grains and growth The munificent seven Who's next?
