Cindy Sheehan's Room Bugged?

Hmmm. Shades of Watergate?

You'll recall that Cindy Sheehan, who has been heavily involved in antiwar politics since the death of her son Casey, recently qualified for the ballot in California, setting her up for a November race against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

She's attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver, and on Tuesday she returned to her room to find a man working on her phone, screwdriver in hand.

According to the Huffington Post and Democracy Now!, she was told the hotel was having trouble with their phones.

Of course, nowadays they would just swap the phone and work on it later, not work on it in the room.

According to H.P., Sheehan said (via email):

So I walked into my room and bigger than life, there was a man standing by my desk holding the room phone with a screwdriver in his hand!

I immediately said; "What the hell are you doing? Are you putting a bug on my phone?" He looked like he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and stammered out: "N--no, we are having problems with the phone." I told him to get out of my room because my phone was fine and I called the front desk and the person at the front desk stammered something out about "problems" with some of the phones.

Warrantless wiretapping? Who in America would do that?

Of course, it's all speculation, but definitely interesting.