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Details of the scandal remain murky. But this much seems clear: Perot insists that he received a tip-off that high-level Republicans were plotting to wiretap his office telephone last August -- even though he had pulled out of the presidential race in July. Acting largely on information provided by both Perot and Scott Barnes -- a shady storyteller with a prior conviction for tape-recording his telephone conversations with other people -- Oliver ("Buck") Revell, the head of the FBI office in Dallas, sent an undercover agent disguised as a cowboy to meet with James Oberwetter, state chairman of the Bush...
...There never was a wiretap case here," says Oberwetter bitterly. "This was an entrapment case, pure and simple. They approached me without probable cause. If Perot has videotapes of any meeting that involves me, release the damn things and let the public judge." Revell defends the operation and says the Barnes video was "only one portion of a whole string of situations" that led the bureau to act. Specifically, Barnes also provided the FBI with a schematic drawing of Perot's office, the billionaire's private phone numbers and telephone records indicating that he had called a number of high...
Ironically, Revell went public last June on behalf of Richard Armitage, a former Pentagon official whom Perot had accused of complicity in drug smuggling and covering up the existence of Vietnam MIAs. Revell felt strongly that Armitage was a victim of "wild charges" that the FBI had been unable to substantiate. Unfortunately, Revell didn't treat Perot's latest charges with equal skepticism...
...CAMPAIGN: Perot-noia...
...What Perot's tale says about his conspiratorial world view...