Yes, GPS tracking was allegedly done to Jim, and its illegality is one of the points of his appeal. He claims that the legal basis for installing the device and data-spotting his movements were flawed. And that there were problems as well with interpretation of the data. Jim tried to argue this during his trial but neither his defense attorney or the judge would allow the argument, so sacred is the blind belief that the official use of the tracking technology is so content neutral, so credible, as if fingerprints, lie detector, DNA, or criminal crypto. The agents who installed the criminal tracking device and interpreted (doctored) the data, were in the courtroom and smiled broadly at Jim's futile challenge of conventional wisdom. It is possible that there was no device and the whole rig was made up in the narc lab, using physical tailing as the source of info needed to confect digital, ie, neutral, evidence. This follows, naturally, the fact that agents' testimony is not believed by anyone any more, so often do they lie. Lying technology has not yet had its truth told, or at not yet believed that it is no better than official lying. George Maschke has made some headway against the polygraph (www.polygraph.org) and fingerprints are not as convincing as they once were, fakes being easy to make, although DNA is a runaway train, and biometrics are believed to be FUD-free. Hoot, hoot. Bob Hettinga wrote:
Didn't they do this kind of thing to Jim Bell?