THE DNC'S DIRTY DISK (Terry caught with his pants down??)

Washington Prowler ^ | 6/24/02 | The Prowler

[Elkiejg]

The disk story makes perfect sense - can't store a PP presentation on a disk. BUT why did the GOP use a hotel projector????? Can't they think ahead and use one from the White House??

On the Leak story - what has happened to the tight group around Bush lately -- we hear daily leaks now. Is this really the result of Hughes leaving -- or is the WH doing this for a reason??

[piasa]

But, in fact, Republicans now believe there was no disk...

What Republicans would those be?

And who's the 'white house source'?

Sounds more like the whole event was fabricated, disk, presentation, and all.

[Keith in Iowa]

This is a crock. The files DO NOT - Repeat - DO NOT get saved on a temporary file on the projection system. It's just not possible.

[TankerKC]

...can't store a PP presentation on a disk...

Sure you can--assuming its less that 1.3M. Or, it could have been on a zip disk.

[Elkiejg]

The files DO NOT - Repeat - DO NOT get saved on a temporary file on the projection system. It's just not possible

I bow to your knowledge here - I'm not that savvy about this stuff. Come to think of it, I've seen PP presentations and don't they project directly from the computer?

[The Raven]

But, in fact, Republicans now believe there was no disk. They believe after a White House political staffer made the presentation at the Hay-Adams to a group of California Republicans, a Democratic Party sympathizer at the hotel copied the presentation off of the temporary file that was created in the hotel's overhead projection system.

More likely....it was stolen by someone during a coffee break.

[Elkiejg]

could have been on a zip disk.

Excellent point!! I still don't buy the scene that some DNC operative just "happened" to find a disk on the sidewalk though - a little far fetched.

[Keith in Iowa]

I bow to your knowledge here - I'm not that savvy about this stuff. Come to think of it, I've seen PP presentations and don't they project directly from the computer?

Exactly. The connection between the computer and the projection systems does not even have the ability to transfer storable data - it's just voltages that the projector uses to display the image - the only way it would be storable would be to convert it from R-G-B video to standard video that could be recorded on a VCR - but someone at the hotel doing that would be highly unlikely.

[Elkiejg]

Thanks for clearing this up -- wonder why the Prowler went with this story?

[ChasingFletch]

McAuliffe, Begala, Carville, etc.....what a pool of slime!

[Keith in Iowa]

Thanks for clearing this up -- wonder why the Prowler went with this story? Perhaps they have less than zero knowledge of how stuff works. The only realistic possability might be that a someone could have pointed a video camera at the screen and videotaped the presentation & slipped it to the Dems.

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[The Wizard]

Can anyone be surprised....this is standard operating proceedure for the little boys from Hope

[Cachelot]

This is a crock. The files DO NOT - Repeat - DO NOT get saved on a temporary file on the projection system. It's just not possible.

Maybe not. But this kind of stuff often uses the hotel's internal network for piping the data from your laptop to the projector. Anyone, especially an employee, can sniff at many points. Of course, if the hotel is pushing data on microwave links it gets even easier.

From your laptop to the projector + enemy laptop in one easy keystroke :).

[Congressman Billybob]

In accord with Occam's Razor, the simplest explanation is most likely the best. I agree with your explanation, that someone at the hotel must have secretly recorded the presentation. Here's more evidence to support your theory:

Hotels are filled with staff. The staff are usually unionized, and Democratic. Therefore, there is a long list of potential suspects for what you describe.

Here would be the acid test. If the press could find out what "quality" of the presentation the Democrats had, the answer would be clear. Immediately after blockbuster movies appear, pirate editions crop up on tape in the Far East. If the Democrats have the CONTENT of the presentation, but not the QUALITY, then it is clear they did not get a digital copy of the original, but a video copy of the presentation.

The latter answer would point to political spying, so the Washington Post would not touch the story with a ten-foot pole. But the Washington Times could probably get the story.

Congressman Billybob

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[mikesmad]

Most of the newer data projectors have the ability to read data from a PC Card that contains flash memory. If someone left the flash card in the projector it would be very easy to remove it and make a copy then place it back. No more than a minute or two and no one would be the wiser.

[DB]

They may have a computer that is dedicated to their high-resolution overhead projector. The projector could well require special drivers and hardware making it much easier just to use the already setup computer for the presentation. Most Windows computers are already setup to run PowerPoint presentations so they could have simply transferred over the data via a CD-ROM or network connection and run it from there.

A CD-ROM would be the most likely and easy method of moving the presentation around without any hassles. Virtually any machine today has a CD-ROM drive. Sticking the CD into someone else's computer and running a PowerPoint presentation could well leave temporary files of that presentation on that machine.

Not far fetched at all.

[mikesmad]

I use a USB Memory Key for my Powerpoint presentations. It is about the length of one popsicle stick and the thickness of about three. It holds 32Mb of data and plugs directly into a USB port. If the machine has W2K, XP, or ME then you do not have to load your own drivers. It would take less than minute to unplug it from one machine plug it into another and copy the presentation. Plug it back into the original machine and no-one knows.

[DB]

That's pretty cool.

Bet your going to want to check what "temporary" files are left behind after running a presentation...

[IMRight]

This is a crock. The files DO NOT - Repeat - DO NOT get saved on a temporary file on the projection system. It's just not possible.

Sorry to disagree, but there are several high-end systems that do precisely that. The blackhawk switcher is used with high-end presentations and can store hundreds of slides quite easily.

Another possibility is a projector with a smartcard chip in it. I would assume that this is unlikely since you have to purposefully load the slides onto the chip, but the low level of graphics on the presentation I saw lend themselves to a "chip presentation"