Posted on 07/25/2004 10:33:51 PM PDT by kattracks
When the Bush administration took over the Pentagon's beleaguered inspector general office in 2002, officials found something startling: The director's office, at some point, had been electronically bugged.
Sorting out why the listening device was inside the walls of the office, with a cord leading to another office, is just one issue that had to be addressed by Joseph E. Schmitz, President Bush's pick three years ago to be the Defense Department's top cop.
A Naval Academy graduate and civil litigation lawyer, Mr. Schmitz was tapped to run the office responsible for investigating million-dollar fraud in the far-flung defense industry and criminal misconduct by senior Defense Department employees.
His nomination delayed by Senate Democrats, Mr. Schmitz finally came on board a year into the Bush administration. He set out to right a ship dogged by charges of corruption and cronyism.
But he also had to deal with an electronic bug apparently left over from eight years of the Clinton administration.
An internal "info memo," a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, was written by a staffer in Mr. Schmitz's office:
"On June 19, 2002, during a routine meeting with the director of security for the Department of Defense, it was reported to my staff and me that a potential 'listening device' was previously discovered in the infrastructure of DoDIG.
"The DoD directorate of security conducted a routine sweep for electronic listening devices in certain areas of the ninth and tenth floors of the DoDIG on Aug. 7, 2000. The sweep revealed that a wire had been installed inside the wall structure leading to and from the ninth and tenth floors of the DoDIG (areas which comprise the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the personal office space of the inspector general)."
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There were stories of Red Chinese military aid to either the Taliban or al Qaeda around the time of 911. (Not clear when it stopped or if it did.) Unfortunately, I can't remember either the source of the stories and whether it was alQ or the Taliwackers so I'm not exactly solid on that issue. But I also have the strong suspicion of a link there. Perhaps we'll find out someday.
I hate to be skeptical of anything that makes Clinton look bad, but how long do batteries last in those "bugs"?
Eleanor Hill is a particular favorite of my douchebag Senator Graham of Floriduh.
Components for Saddam Husayn's biological weapons programme were slipped into Iraq under Chinese diplomatic cover, according to documents seen by The Sunday Times in Baghdad. The documents refer to 137 kilograms of laboratory chemicals being channelled to Iraq from China in the guise of medical supplies.The cargo, flown to Jordan on May 31, 1995, was listed as "medicine" in a Jordanian customs report and the recipient was described as "Chinese embassy", Amman. Correspondence found in Baghdad shows that the 16 boxes contained chemicals - including some described by the supplier as "hazardous products" that should be stowed with extreme caution.
A former Iraqi intelligence agent familiar with the deal said that from Amman the cargo was collected by Chinese diplomats based at the embassy in Baghdad. They escorted it in embassy vehicles across the border from Jordan to the Iraqi capital. From the Chinese embassy in Baghdad the goods were delivered in several batches to the car boot of an Iraqi intelligence operative who hid them in his home to prevent their discovery by United Nations weapons inspectors. From time to time he delivered small quantities to a research commission overseeing the biological weapons programme. The Iraqi source said that Baghdad went to great lengths to try to influence the Chinese whose power of veto on the UN security council made them one of the leading players in Iraq's conflict with America.
To this end, Iraqi intelligence never missed an opportunity to gather potential blackmail material. The transfer of chemicals from the Chinese embassy vehicle to the Iraqi's car was secretly filmed by Iraqi agents from a department charged with monitoring the foreign diplomatic community.
- Source: "China Linked To Iraq Bio-Weapons," by Matthew Campbell, London The Sunday Times, 5-25-03
It is possible to just tap into the 110-volt AC. Also if they are transmitting at very low power and short range, a good lithium battery can last 10 years.
I've gone to some electronic parts seminars where the vendors talk about "permanent" batteries because the life of the battery is longer than the useful life of the device.
To get away all they had to do was go on the attack. Such phrases as "vast right wing conspiracy", "it's only about sex' even when it wasn't about sex. "Witch hunt", etc.
Under other circumstances these would have gotten him in even deeper trouble, but he had one overwhelming tool in his toolbox.
His accomplises in the media would spin every account into something it wasn't. In other words they lied for him and since most people have no other way of obtaining information, they drew the only conclusion they could based on false info.
Wow, didn't know they could last that long. Just playing devils' advocate. I have little doubt the Clintons are that devious, mind you...
Funny.
We NEVER heard about this on the national news.
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Verrry Interrrestink
What happened to your posts?
If the Clinton were prosecuted then the next Republican president would be prosecuted by the next Democrat administration and so on. And the presidency itself would lose prestige in the process.
IOW, I suspect that - if there is to be a prosecution - it must begin while the administration is still in power, as with Nixon and Clinton's impeachment hearing.
AG - I'm just getting back in town to read this shocker. Have you heard anything in mainstream media about it?
I just got back last night from a weekend out of town myself. And, no, I haven't heard anything about this in the mainstream.
bttt
Senator...SENATOR Bill Cohen a RINO was in charge of the DoD, and from the MESS that was left just PROVES that a SENATOR does NOR know how to RUN and Manage ANYTHING!! They manage a handful of people.....period!
it's a free bundle of get out-of-jail free cards allowing the Dems to do as they please while they continue to rip and accuse the repubs and wreck the Constitution.
That pretty well sums it up.
bttt
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