As I said in another thread, I'm really not a conspiracy nut, but I'm beginning to wonder... The latest in right wing power grab?

Bugging devices are found in the office of Mayor John Street of Philly. The FBI immediately announces that they put them there, but "Mayor Street is a subject of the investigation, not a target". That's FBIspeak that few will understand. All they will retain is that the FBI is bugging him. His opponent Sam Katz immediately says "they wouldn't be bugging him if he wasn't corrupt".

All this just weeks before the election.

You got it - Philly is the 5th (?) largest city in the USA, and the largest in a key battleground state in presidential 2004. Street is a Democrat. The FBI works for who? More powergrab?

I'm suspicious.