[FedCom] The hump on Bush's back

[Keith Emond]

No offense, but do you think either candidate is dumb enough to try
something like this??  Listening devices like this are still visible in the
ear canal.

I was part of the media circus, err, I mean media coverage at the Fleet
center in Boston for the DNC.  Several days before the convention we had to
submit all wireless devices for examination and approval to the event's
frequency coordinator.  Anything without prior approval and a fancy approval
sticker was banned from the inside of the building.  With all of the
wireless microphones, wireless IFB and RTS intercom systems etcetera, if
either convention wasn't strict about frequency coordination the interface
would have been a nightmare.

I saw the bulge during the first debate and it very much looked like the
bulge from the top (Velcro area) of a standard issue piece of body armor.



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Subject: [FedCom] The hump on Bush's back


Without this degrading into my candidate is blah blah blah and your
candidate is blah blah blah, can anyone comment about those news stories
about the bump on Bush's back, with the assumption that he is wearing a
listening device.

Trying to be as objective as possible, here is what I noticed. On the
first debate, at one point Bush blurts out "let me finish" at a time
when the debate moderator certainly wasn't required to stop Bush from
speaking.  In the town hall session, I spotted him fiddling with
something inside his jacket, which I thought might be a volume control.

This link seems to be the best I found on the net regarding the hump:

http://cryptome.org/bush-bulge.htm

Most interesting is this paragraph:
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Suggestions that Bush may have using this technique stem from a D-day
event in France, when a CNN broadcast appeared to pick up -- and
broadcast to surprised viewers -- the sound of another voice seemingly
reading Bush his lines, after which Bush repeated them. Danny Schechter,
who operates the news site MediaChannel.org, and who has been doing some
investigating into the wired-Bush rumors himself, said the Bush campaign
has been worried of late about others picking up their radio frequencies
-- notably during the Republican Convention on the day of Bush's
appearance. "They had a frequency specialist stop me and ask about the
frequency of my camera," Schechter said. "The Democrats weren't doing
that at their convention."
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I' m just amazed nobody with a scanner has found this audio (if it exists).


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