He was wiretapped as a matter of routine course, as the NSA scoops up everything. Of course, the MSM now is putting a Jihad on the rep for exposing common knowledge about the criminal organization that they all fear and therefore must be attack dogs for, the NSA.
While I don't put it past them to try, It's also more likely that incompetence and poor conditions are more to blame than pentagram interference. As usual the grey lady can't let the state be wrong, even when that state is N. Korea -- especially if it makes the USG look less useless/evil.
Interesting in that the Kurds let the SAA take the western countryside as a buffer between them and the turks, and it looks like Uncle Satan hasn't decided to sell the Kurds down the river (yet) either.