Aren't you the poster who defended throwing the innocent Japanese citizens into camps during the second world war even though not a single one was ever shown to have done anything wrong and J. Edgar Hoover disapproved?
So many questions you ask!
On the Sopranos, they don't need to both hear the conversation, despite ambient noise such as a truck engine, and be able to transmit back to the person, and scramble the messages in both directions. THAT is what the expert on such devices said is the explanation for the size of the object, and no one has posted any evidence that there exists a powerful transmitter/receiver/scrambler as tiny as the simple transmitting device a Sopranos rat needs, or smaller than the vertical ridge under the tee shirt. I heard an expert say on TV that to do those things, that size would be required.
I'm asking simple questions. And a lot of them, too!
Okay. Here we go:
1) Do you think Bush's handlers were smart enough to wire him up, but too dumb to notice a big bulge on his back? (Do you think they missed the bulge even when it was just a T-shirt??)
So you see the bulge under the tee shirt! Yay! Does it look like a flak jacket to you? So far no one has answered either yes or no to that. I myself don't know what it is, only what it isn't. A flak jacket.
They wouldn't have sent him out there with the "big bulge" you yourself see on his back, especially the one in the tee shirt, if they'd thought it would be detectible and they planned to deny there was anything there. You have detected it, though. Oops.
2) As soon as the debate ended and families came on stage -- Didn't people pat GW on the back? Didn't Bush embrace (lightly!) Theresa? Didn't Kerry put his arm around Bush's shoulders? Ddn't Bush have his back to the cameras as the crowd milled? (Do you think GW just forgot he had a big box taped to his back?)
A "big box"? I missed that photo. I saw those bulges, though. I don't know if anyone palpated his back, and if they did, what they felt. Neither of us do. And yes, Bush did have his back to cameras. If he hadn't, there wouldn't be photographs of the bulge under his suit. (Under the suit, I'd assume it was a flak jacket the WH was for political reasons lying about, if it weren't for the tee shirt photo. In that case, they might reasonably have figured he was sitting with his back against the car seat, so no problem. Oops.)
Do you credit GW with the mental agility to listen to Kerry's answer in ONE ear, while simultaneously listing to Karl Rove talking in his OTHER ear? That he could sort through this crossfire of words instantaneously so as to immediately frame and deliver a cogent and appropriate response to what Kerry said? Is GW that cool and clever? If he is, why did he need the coaching in the first place?
I don't know about "crossfires," or Bush's mental agility. I don't even know if it was a listening/transmission/two-way encryption device, though I can see that if they feed him lines by audio, which I heard them do when he made a speech (unless you have an alternative explanation for that unknown person's voice whose every inflection he copied), it might be easy enough to escalate to thinking, "hmmm, a brief prompting reminder of previously-learned sound bytes might be helpful to him..."
Where do you think the wiring was done? Back stage? (Where would they find a secure place?) Back in the the hotel room? (And in all the time afterward no one around GW noticed the bulge which you find so obvious in the picture?)
(You know that "wiring" is just a generic word used for the sitution and is not really applicable, as there aren't any wires, I assume.) I don't know whether the bulging item was put on his back at the hotel or in his dressing room or where, I wasn't there. (I also assume that the WH could afford powerful enough equipment that they don't have to be "back stage" for it to work.)
But your "simple questions" puzzle me, since you acknowledge the bulges in the four photographs I've posted, including the one under the tee shirt.
So don't be coy, just tell me what you think they are. The WH says the president is not wearing a flak jacket at the debates and you can see in the tee shirt photo that it's not a flak jacket.
Note that I answered every question you asked to the best of my ability and did not engage in personal insult. I'd appreciate your answering one question and if you'll do that ("Be the first in your crowd!"), you may feel free to be as rude as so many of your collegues customarily are:
What is the ridge under his tee shirt as he sat in the truck answering reporters' questions, iyo? (I know it can only be speculation, and "I don't know" is an answer.)
If you're up for a second question, how about at the debates?
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