The new Republican song: ‘Somebody’s watching me’
In the last 48 hours, we’ve learned that, on at least two occasions, Democrats, both in the FBI and the DHS, have spied on Trump team members.
Andrea Widburg | February 27, 2026
One of the big hits of the 1980s was Rockwell’s technopop “Somebody’s Watching Me.” The relentless chorus endlessly repeated the phrase “I always feel like somebody’s watching me.” This year, it could be the Republican theme song, because we’ve had two stories in as many days that Democrats spied on people near Trump. First, we learned that Jack Smith spied on Kash Patel and Susie Wiles. That was immediately followed by news that as-yet-unnamed DHS employees spied on Kristi Noem.
The first story, about Patel and Wiles, dates back to the Biden years, but it’s still mind-boggling. What made the Reuters headline was that Kash Patel has revealed that the FBI subpoenaed records of his and Wiles’s phone calls:
“It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records – along with those of now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles – using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight,” Patel said in a statement to Reuters.
Patel is right. That is outrageous. But the truly outrageous part is what happened to Wiles, something Reuters buried 12 paragraphs deep in its report:
In 2023, the FBI recorded a phone call between Wiles and her attorney, according to two FBI officials. Wiles’ attorney was aware that the call was being recorded, and consented to it, but Susie Wiles was not.
If you’re wondering about that “consent” thing, different states have different rules for recording phone calls without a court order. Some states require that both parties consent to having the call recorded (“two-party consent”); other states—and Washington, D.C.—require that only “one-party consent.” That means that, as long as one person says, “You can record me,” the other person may unwittingly find himself being recorded.
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