You know the one thing that keeps coming to mind with these young men is "reality tv" . I get the impression that these young people first did not have the good sense that god gave them to understand there is a huge difference between walking into the local ACORN office in pretense and your nearest Federal building in pretense. First of all as rightly pointed out, most Federal facilities have digital telecom and without having the experience and especially the right tools to do so , tapping the phones would be a long exercise in stupidity which was on full display. I suspect that this story is less than its being made out to be because of the young mans former exploits, and because of that he perhaps thought wallking into the nearest Senators office under false pretenses was going to be the same as his previous venture. In short it will be interesting when the whole story on this comes out but it does appear that these young men were not gifted in the common sense department regardless of how well meaning their intent was.