This looks like a good example of poor operational security on the part of the drug company.
Drug firm investigated FDA officials
…private investigators working for a drug company gathered information on a high-ranking official at the Food and Drug Administration…
…Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who said it was “an outrage” and has demanded that Kroll tell him how often private detectives target public officials. He also had harsh words for Amphastar…
It shouldn’t surprise anybody that government officials are demanding that they be considered above suspicion and scrutiny when their decisions may cost one company billions of dollars and put billions into the pocket of another.
A similar sort of outrage occurred in 2006 when Ms. Dunn’s troubles at HP led to Congress prohibiting investigators from pretexting telephone companies and other utilities.
Licensed, professional investigators. Hmmm, why?
Oh yeah – a few months later the DC Madam (Deborah Jeane Palfrey) plopped 5 pounds of paper on the desk of a major US newspaper. It was her phone records. Guess whose numbers could be found in that pile…
Politicians are the worst.