"...Squarcini, the chief of the Direction Central du Renseignement Intérieur, is alleged to have "obtained the Le Monde reporter's telephone records to uncover a mole feeding the newspaper information about a political scandal," Kim Willsher of the UK Guardian reported Tuesday.
Squarcini apparently wanted to know who in the government was leaking information from a sensitive campaign finance investigation into improprieties allegedly involving allies of President Nicolas Sarkozy. The material went out to Le Monde reporter Gérard Davet and some of his colleagues. The coverage that Squarcini was tracking concerned a French inquiry into whether elderly French L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt "had given Sarkozy allies wads of cash in brown envelopes to fund the presidential election campaign," Willsher noted..."
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