In the long and recurring story of power seeking shelter behind hired eyes, a former federal police officer sat before New South Wales's anti-corruption commission this week and described, with disarming candor, how he installed hidden cameras without permission, handed covert recording devices to a fugitive developer, and surveilled sitting officials — all at the direction of a lawyer he called one of his closest friends. The testimony illuminates a broader inquiry into whether $2 million in alleged illegal donations from developer Jean Nassif purchased political outcomes, including the delib