John Street, the Phila Mayor, keeps going on tv and alluding to the bugging being part of this last-few-weeks-before-the-election conspiracy by the other political party.
He's just playing that card a bit too much for my tastes, which is beginning to make him look, if anything, that he had it planted there to make the republican challengers look bad.
obviously the FBI had quickly, neatly removed the bug system upon the Mayor & Police finding it. the FBI admits to the plant. the FBI are still not willing to "confirm or deny" anything.
Logically, if the FBI planted the device, they are monitoring, if not investigating, John Street. I don't see why he keeps trying to point in another direction.
Streets' administration, and history, has been dogged by occasional underhanded dealings.