Enigmatic Mirror
The local media has finally gotten wind of the open secret that some classrooms in Religious Education have been secretly bugged with voice activated recorders. See media reports here:
The story may go national. Tonight I received a phonecall from a CNN reporter asking for a comment on the story; I laughed and said I had nothing to say.
The BYU police are quoted as saying: “We have no idea who put that [digital voice activated recorder] there. Why they were doing it, it’s a mystery to us. We can’t see any purpose.”
Perhaps the BYU should hire me as a consultant. I can think of a number of possible motives and suspects. (And my private investigative consultation fees are quite reasonable: $25 dollars a day plus expenses, just like Philip Marlowe.) Here’s a couple of suggestions.
The first question of any investigation, as the great Roman legalist and philosopher Cicero reminds us, is: cui bono–“to whose benefit”? Who would have motive, means, and opportunity to bug several different Religious Education classrooms, apparently over a lengthy period of time?
A second investigation that should be undertaken is: find the names of all the teachers using each of the classrooms that were bugged, and see if there is any correlation of names–especially if the name of one particular teacher is found to have used each of the bugged rooms. That might indicate the target of the bugging.
Third, get the serial numbers off the recorders, and found out who purchased them.
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