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"And they have been probing our telecommunication networks here in Australia too," Burgess said.

The Fannie investigators were probing to find out who had made the orders, whether Pulte had the authority to seek the documents and whether or not they had followed proper procedure, the people said.

"A solid-state magnetic sensor of this kind could be very useful for probing, for instance, biological systems," Jayich said.

He entered private meetings with the lenders and the bankers and the rating agencies probing for an intelligence he had yet to detect.

Beginning last fall, investigators started probing the former’s business model of buying a portion of a homeowner’s equity in exchange for a lump sum payment, records show.