Starting around Athens Olympics..

The mobile phones of Greek prime minister Costas Caramanlis and top government and security officials were tapped by unknown individuals during the Athens 2004 Olympics and for nearly a year after, the government said yesterday.

"The people [under surveillance] included the prime minister himself and other members of the government," government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos told a news conference.

The list of about 100 people whose telephones were tapped included the ministers of foreign affairs, defence, public order and justice. Most of Greece's top military and police officers were also targeted, as were foreign ministry officials, a US embassy number and the prime minister's wife, Natasha.

...The government revealed that the phone tappers used interceptors traced to the vicinity of the US embassy.

Senior Vodaphone network administrator who inserted tracking software into Vodaphone system supposedly committed suicide;

Part of the government's investigation will re-examine the supposed suicide of Kostas Tsalikidis, 39, Vodafone Greece's head of network design. Tsalikidis was found hanged in his Athens flat on March 9, only two days after Vodafone Greece had identified and removed the eavesdropping software from its systems...

Don't think it's happening here? Pat Roberts enables...

Some will probably argue that the US intelligence services couldn't be so incompetent ... what about the Italian CIA caper, where 13 agents are under indictment after having used their credit cards for luxury hotels, etc, during the scheme to kidnap Italians for interrogation elsewhere?