In colombia most politicians, senior officials, opposition figures, business leaders, journalists and of course suspected drug-traffickers and leftist rebels have long been careful about what they say over the telephone, assuming that someone is recording their conversations, legally or otherwise. Their suspicions, it turns out, were justified.rnAn investigation by a news magazine, Semana, found that domestic-intelligence officers had been intercepting the phone calls and e-mails of dozens of public figures, including Supreme Court judges and President Alvaro Uribe's private secretary,rnwithout court orders.rnSemana said the group of intelligence officers was intercepting the messages in exchange for cash. Government spokesmen say they were part of a drug-traffick-ing-related mafia that has infiltrated the intelligence agency. But critics say only the government would be interested in the phone conversations of opposition figures. They suspect that senior officials ordered the taps.
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