It wasn’t a chance wiretap that caught NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer, though wiretaps cemented the case. It was an IRS team trailing suspicious movement of cash out of his bank account to shell companies. It is but another example of the pervasiveness of legal oversight of everyday commerce, never mind the Bush administration’s illegal eavesdropping and other tabs kept on personal behavior.

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