Scott SoCal said:
Did you see the ESPN interview with Bob Ley? He asked him directly about Tyler's suspicion on Lance having him investigated privately and possibly spying on him... Tyler was very, very uncomfortable with that and essentially refused to go there.
So yeah, he's telling the story. Just not the whole story.
I got the impression from that part of the book, as well as the footnotes concerning what Novitzky had to say about possible surveillance that might have been done by PI's hired by Lance's defense team, that Tyler/Coyle (at least in the book) are pretty much telling and describing all that they really knew. Tyler describes how he and his girlfriend/wife began to experience strange popping and clicking noises on their phones, how they began to experience weird popups on their computers (some of which were to sites dealing with LA or his foundation), how they would spot two guys often sitting in strange cars outside their apartment, how text messages they would send either didn't get through to the intended recipient or would mysteriously be sent two times instead of once.
Based on what's in the book, I don't know really what to make about Tyler not wanting to talk about that sort of stuff during an interview, other than this: while he may have had suspicions about who or what was behind this sort of stuff, he really can't confirm it, and therefore other than saying he noticed a bunch of odd things happening, and Novitsky telling him that it
might have been the work of PI's hired by Lance's defense team during the federal criminal investigation, he really can't either confirm or prove such an allegation. He also admits in the book that some of what he felt and observed about this made him also question whether it was really taking place or whether he was just being paranoid. I just think it's an area that perhaps he wouldn't feel comfortable talking about during an interview because....well, it's an uncomfortable subject matter with an uncertain origin and he probably doesn't want to look like he's overly paranoid.
But as someone once said to me, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you're not being followed." Who knows though. If this was all due to some overly-aggressive investigative techniques being used by some PI hired by the defense team, then they evidently learned nothing from the Anthony Pellicano prosecution. Surveillance techniques like wiretapping of phones, and interception of wireless communications is, at least in most states, illegal. At least it's illegal in California. I have no idea though about Massachusetts or Colorado, where Tyler says this stuff occurred.
Novitsky seemed a lot less bothered by that stuff than he was by the Boulder Cache Cache restaurant intimidation issue, which I found somehwhat interesting. I would have thought that the Feds would be equally interested in illegal wiretapping, theft of mail and other illegal surveillance. This also raises the possibility that the Feds were doing some surveillance of their own of key witnesses such as Tyler, just to see who was contacting him or what he might be saying to others that could lead to further evidence. And
if Tyler was told later that there were federal wiretaps, I'm guessing that he would also want to avoid discussing that subject as well. Again, this is speculation, and I'm not suggesting that it was anything other than what the book describes, and that all signs pointed to LA's defense team.
ETA: I see that The Hog also responded to this, and concludes, as I do, that there really wasn't much more for Tyler to say about this sort of thing. What can he say about what really can't be confirmed?
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