The secret police files, codenamed Gorilla, featured wiretaps of leading financiers meeting discreetly with centre-right governing politicians to trade government tenders for cash.
Hunting parties, expensive gifts, drunken car crashes, secret police wiretaps, paper bags stuffed with money and public budgets being treated as private accounts all feature in the lurid revelations and allegations being leaked daily on to the front pages of central Europe.
He called the wiretaps "a brutal and incredible breach of privacy" and said he is the victim of a politically motivated smear campaign.
How do you explain wiretaps and influence-peddling and campaign finance?
Surveillance of Americans or people within America by methods such as wiretaps requires permission from a judge.
It would insist that the National Assembly should be kept informed about both the number of wiretaps and the names and telephone numbers of the people concerned.
Funds can exploit small price movements, often caused by mundane news about, say, product development—and use derivatives to magnify gains.The case against Mr Rajaratnam is based in part on the novel use of wiretaps, a technique previously reserved for blue-collar criminals such as mobsters and terrorists.
Mr Bush has refused to give many details of how exactly the wiretaps were carried out, citing the need to protect operational secrecy.Conservatives have tried to shift the eavesdropping debate on to the conduct of the New York Times, which sat on the story for a year.
Senator Russ Feingold, a Democrat from Wisconsin, says it allows the government too much scope to spy on American citizens by, for example, allowing roving wiretaps and scrutiny of library records.Worryingly for Mr Bush, some of his own side agree.
It is also employing methods, such as wiretaps, that are used to fight other kinds of criminal activity, and is reimbursing whistle-blowers more handsomely.Hedge funds should expect further scrutiny.
