The Bloomberg report talked about how investigators tracked phone calls inside China, presumably by hacking and compromising Chinese telecom infrastructure. I d

The Bloomberg report talked about how investigators tracked phone calls inside China, presumably by hacking and compromising Chinese telecom infrastructure. I don't see how, even if true, the US government would own up to something like that, esp. when it is accusing China of hacking. Imagine the headlines that would generate if the Chinese admitted to doing the same to the US (tapping US calls without a court order and with the potential power to shut down the infrastructure in time of conflict). It would be a bigger deal than planting chips on a few motherboards. The whole story smells of fog of war.