From the FINANCIAL TIMES:
…DSK, as he is universally known, knew he had a problem with a smartphone, the one he called his IMF BlackBerry. This was the device he used to send and receive texts and emails for both personal and IMF business. According to several people close to him, he received a text message that morning from a friend temporarily working as a researcher at the Paris offices of the UMP, Mr Sarkozy’s centre-right political party. She warned Mr Strauss-Kahn that at least one private email, which he had recently sent via the BlackBerry to his wife Anne Sinclair, had been read at the UMP offices.
Indeed, he had already been warned by a friend in the French diplomatic corps that an effort would be made to embarrass him with a scandal. The warning that his BlackBerry might have been hacked thus gave him reason to suspect he might be under electronic surveillance in New York.
At 10.07 he called his wife in Paris and, in a conversation that lasted about six minutes, asked her to contact a friend who could arrange to have it examined by an expert in such matters. DSK himself had no time to do anything about it that morning. He had scheduled an early lunch with his 26-year-old daughter Camille, a graduate student at Columbia university who wanted to introduce him to her new boyfriend. After that, he had to get to John F. Kennedy airport in time to catch his 4.40pm flight to Paris. He was in the thick of sensitive negotiations being conducted for the IMF to stave off the eurozone crisis…
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EDITOR: The above article , along with a longer version to appear in the New York Review of Books, provides very strong evidence from electronic surveillance and other records that Stauss-Kahn was the victim of a fully staged plot to discredit him.
