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20 October 2004. See also Bush Ear Piece:
http://cryptome.info/0001/bush-piece/bush-piece.htm
13 October 2004. D. forwards a Salon article today which mentions the security
device possibility:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/13/transmitter/index.html
Technical expert: Bush was wired
A Bush spokesman tells Salon there is nothing to the story. But as the final
presidential debate looms, speculation grows about the mysterious bulge.
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By Dave Lindorff
[Excerpts]
Oct. 13, 2004 | Speculation continues to run wild about President
Bush's mystery bulge. Since Friday, when Salon first raised questions about
the rectangular bulge that was visible under Bush's suit coat during the
presidential debates, many observers in the press and on the Internet have
wondered aloud whether the verbally and factually challenged pre sident might
be receiving coaching via a hidden electronic device.
Now a technical expert who designs and makes such devices for the U.S. military
and private industry tells Salon that he believes the bulge is indeed a
transceiver designed to receive electronic signals and transmit them to a
hidden earpiece lodged in Bush's ear canal.
"There's no question about it. It's a pretty obvious one -- larger than most
because it probably has descrambling capability," said Alex Darbut, technical
and business development vice president for Resistance Technology in Arden
Hills, Minn. Darbut examined photographs of the president's back taken from
the Fox News video feed at the first presidential debate in Coral Gables,
Fla., as well as 2002 photos of the president driving and working in a T-shirt
on his Crawford ranch, which were posted on the White House Web site.
Darbut speculates that the device the president wears is provided by the
Secret Service, noting, "They're not going to have him driving around the
countryside on his ranch without being in instant contact with him."
No one in the White House or Bush campaign, however, has offered such an
explanation. In fact, the Bush camp has shed little light on the mysterious
protuberance, turning aside questions with dismissive humor or rising tones
of exasperation. The president is "a regular guy," White House chief of staff
Andy Card told Salon before the second debate last week. "Maybe his suit
had a little lump in it or something." Campaign spokeswoman Nicolle Devenish
took the same line with the New York Times on Saturday: "It was most likely
a rumpling of that portion of his suit jacket, or a wrinkle in the fabric."
But Devenish, the Times dryly noted, "could not say why the 'rumpling' was
rectangular." Campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel brushed aside a questioner
in a Washington Post chat session by saying, "I think you've been spending
a little too much time on conspiracy Web sites."
On Tuesday, in response to repeated questions from Salon, the Bush camp finally
issued a flat denial. Campaign spokesman Reed Dickens denied that Bush has
ever used an electronic device to aid his public speaking, insisting the
president was wearing "nothing during the debates." When asked about the
pictures taken at the Bush ranch, Dickens said the president has never used
any devices except for cutting tools and earplugs to protect his ears from
the high-decibel chainsaw. Nor has the Secret Service outfitted Bush with
a hidden communications device, according to Dickens: "He doesn't need something
like that because the Secret Service is always with him. They ride in the
truck in the back. Wherever he goes, they're with him."
13 October 2004. Bear in mind that Bush may wear a communication device for
personal protection, and if so, the Secret Service will not allow its revelation.
Such devices are worn by security personnel, including the Secret Service,
and it would not be unusual for the President's security staff to be in direct
24x7 communication with him -- in particular during public appearances, and
most so when he cannot be surrounded by agents -- to alert him to danger
and to give direction on what to do should a threat loom.
Other heads of state and VIPs are known to wear these devices, kept secret
for security reasons. Signals are most often encrypted or otherwised protected
from interception and interruption. However because encryption requires more
time to process and transmit than unencrypted signal, there may be plain
signals sent during an emergency, perhaps no more than a warning tone for
an incoming urgent message.
How long these devices have been in use for presidential protection is not
known, but they are well-established in the security field. It is possible
that Bush was alerted to the 9/11 attacks by this technology while reading
to school children, and that could account for his stare into space while
listening; he might also have been directed to remain in place until security
arrangements could be made for his escape to a secure location.
While it is not likely the use of such devices for presidential personal
protection will be admitted publicly, there could be leaks from those who
supply and service them, by ex-employees or others. The
Secret Service Technical
Security Division would probably be the contracting party for purchase
and maintenance, and DoD's White House Communications Agency (WHCA), a unit
of the Defense Information Systems Agency
(DISA), could be involved as well.
The Techncial Security Division might well make the presidential devices,
in cooperation with government and industry communication experts, to maximize
protection against disclosure of their existence and capabilities.
The US government publication, Commerce
Business Daily, lists unclassified solicitations and purchases; search
on "usss" or "secret service" or "whca." Classified purchases would take
place by non-public procedures.
11 October 2004. James Atkinson
(http://www.tscm.com) writes:
After examining numerous frames of video footage
[C-SPAN 30 Sept 04] I have come to the
professional opinion that either George Bush was wearing a wireless
prompter/queuing system on the night of the debates, or our president is
growing some kind of mutant dorsal fin. By very carefully examining the movement
of his body and how it interacts with his suit jacket it is easy to rule
out the possibility "the bulge" is simply a wrinkle in his clothing or a
problem with bad lighting.
As he moves his arms the jacket slides over the bulge, but the bulge does
not move relative to his upper torso. The same is true when he swivels
his hips where the jacket moves, and slides over the bulge between his shoulder
blade, but the bulge itself does not move relative to his torso. When he
moves in and out of the light, the shadows can be seem to move across the
surface of his clothing and the shadows of the bulge sift accordingly, but
the bulge remains at the exact same location between his shoulder blade.
When he leans forward on the podium the bulge becomes more well defined as
a something concealed under the suit coat, whereas a flaw in his garments
would be pulled taut in such cases. This item appears to be the yoke assembly
of the neck loop or wiring of a wireless prompter systems commonly used by
public speakers. This behavior tends to indicate that the bulge is not attached
to, or part of his suit jacket but is instead attached to an undershirt or
oxford dress shirt.
The same situation is observed regarding the ridge that runs from bulge across
this right shoulder blade and over his collar bone. Despite his movements
the ridge does not move relative to his body, but the suit coat moves relative
to it. This element behaves almost identically to the bulge between his shoulder
blades and it also appears to be something close fitting and likely secured
to his oxford shirt or undershirt.
Additionally, his shoulder blades, collar bone, and spine are not printing
properly through his clothing and his clothing is not hanging properly on
his frame. This appears to be caused by several milli-meters of stiff ballistic
fabric being worn close to his body in the form of soft body armor.
11 October 2004. Manuals on wireless cueing systems and security:
http://www.lectrosonics.com/manuals/manuals.htm
11 October 2004. James Atkinson
(http://www.tscm.com) writes:
Here are a few more wireless prompter channels that systems such as that
used by the White House utilize. There are a huge number of additional channels,
but these are quite popular.
H3
0 524.200 553.800
1 525.150 552.850
2 526.825 551.175
3 530.375 547.625
4 531.000 547.000
5 533.300 544.700
6 538.150 539.850
7 545.625 532.375
8 546.925 531.075
9 550.150 527.850
A 551.625 535.025
B 553.575 541.65
C 537.325 536.350
D 527.975 543.250
E 540.675 551.125
F 542.725 553.375
L2
0 632.200 661.800
1 633.150 660.850
2 634.825 659.175
3 638.375 655.625
4 639.000 655.000
5 641.300 652.700
6 646.150 647.850
7 653.625 640.375
8 654.925 639.075
9 658.150 635.850
A 659.625 643.025
B 661.575 649.65
C 645.325 644.350
D 635.975 651.250
E 648.675 659.125
F 650.725 661.375
Ch. 0 722.325 MHz TV 56
Ch. 0 745.500 MHz TV 59
Ch. 1 723.100 MHz TV 56
Ch. 1 744.450 MHz TV 59
Ch. 2 724.500 MHz TV 56
Ch. 2 743.700 MHz TV 59
Ch. 3 725.550 MHz TV 56
Ch. 3 742.225 MHz TV 59
Ch. 4 726.125 MHz TV 56
Ch. 4 741.250 MHz TV 59
Ch. 5 728.450 MHz TV 57
Ch. 5 739.675 MHz TV 58
Ch. 6 730.450 MHz TV 57
Ch. 6 737.575 MHz TV 58
Ch. 7 731.525 MHz TV 57
Ch. 7 736.525 MHz TV 58
Ch. 8 734.175 MHz TV 58
Ch. 8 732.125 MHz TV 57
Ch. 9 738.225 MHz TV 58
Ch. 9 730.350 MHz TV 57
Ch. A 739.625 MHz TV 58
Ch. A 728.225 MHz TV 57
Ch. B 740.350 MHz TV 59
Ch. B 727.200 MHz TV 56
Ch. C 741.600 MHz TV 59
Ch. C 725.675 MHz TV 56
Ch. D 743.225 MHz TV 59
Ch. D 725.125 MHz TV 56
Ch. E 744.275 MHz TV 59
Ch. E 723.625 MHz TV 56
Ch. F 745.675 MHz TV 59
Ch. F 722.775 MHz TV 56
1 518.750 MHz
2 524.875 MHz
3 525.625 MHz
4 534.375 MHz
5 536.875 MHz
6 538.500 MHz
7 551.000 MHz
8 553.250 MHz
More frequencies of this nature may be found at:
http://www.tscm.com/TSCM101bugfreq.html
Also, other materials may be found via the main page as well:
http://www.tscm.com/
9 October 2004. James Atkinson
(http://www.tscm.com) writes:
I have carefully reviewed the image that was taken during the Presidential
debates where picture was obtained from the back which show an interesting
bulge.
First, the President is likely wearing body armor. The jacket is not concealing
the armor well and it is "printing though" his clothing.
Second, there are four elements that appear to be "printing" on the back
of his suit coat. While it is impossible to identify the system, we can review
various equiment of the same size and shape.
1. A "box" section of the device which appears to be located between his
shoulder blades, and just over his spine. This is the "bodypack."
2) A wire running vertically up his back across his shoulder blade.
3) A shadow behind his right ear may be an ear-piece, but it is difficult
to tell due to the poor resolution of the picture. It would be most unwise
for a public figure to use an ear piece that was visible, so this may just
be a shadow.
4) There appears to be something actually IN his ear, and it is likely a
monitor or cueing prompter.
A system like this works by receiving a signal from a wireless microphone
being used by a coach or advisor who is speaking to the person wearing the
system. The "bodypack" receives the signal and supplies the coaching or cueing
to the ear canal by either a hard wire, or though a magnetic neck loop induction
system. The covert neck loop systems are very popular in cases where the
speaker does not want the public to know they are being coached.
The frequencies for these units are very well known, and someone can sit
outside many concerts with radio monitoring gear and listen to the assistants
reading the words to the songs to the musicians, coaching them what to say,
and quite often someone can sit outside a comedy club and listen to one-liners
to cue the comedians and entertainers. Around political events these types
of systems are very, very popular as the politician can have a half dozen
members of his staff feeding him data, thus creating the illusion the suit
has a clue of what he speaks.
When the president visited Boston back in March 2004 he stayed at the Park
Plaza Hotel. The signal from the system he was using could clearly be heard
1500+ feet away, and one of his advisors could be heard doing voice checks
and then feeding him data about the school he was about to visit.
The funny thing about these kinds of system is that mischief makers can set
up a transmitter thousands of feet away and feed persons bogus data, and
really cause them to screw up their public appearances.
Here are links to some of the more popular systems the government uses, and
one which the White House has purchased over the past few years.
http://shure.com/pdf/specsheets/spec_psm/psm700.pdf
http://www.comtek.com/IFBCueing/ifbcueing.html
I can supply you with frequency tables for the more popular systems they
are using.
http://www.comtek.com/IFBCueing/ifbcueing.html
IFB & Cueing
RC-216 Receive-A-Cue
The RC-216 Receive-A-Cue system is a professional quality, digitally synthesized
wireless cueing system operating in the interference-free 216-217 MHz band.
The IR-230 induction receiver and NTC-102 neck-loop eliminates the need for
visible wires going directly to the ear. With the adjustable volume control
and low residual noise, this discrete earpiece is loud enough for even the
most demanding environments. The dual function M-216 transmitter can be used
with a lapel microphone for live cueing, or the AUX input and whip antenna
can be used to send cues from a line level audio input source. Also, the
AUX input on the transmitter allows for prerecorded material to be played
back from another sound source such as an MP-3 player, dat recorder, or even
a feed from a mixing board. When using the mic input and the AUX input
simultaniously, the AUX input will automatically lower it's level to prioritize
the signal from the mic input. The complete RC-216 system includes:
* M-216 wireless microphone transmitter
* CM-183 omni-directional lapel microphone
* PR-216 personal receiver
* NTC-102 neck-loop transductor
* SM-N earphone assembly
* IR-230 inductor receiver
* Auxiliary audio input cable
* C-216 carrying case
AP-230
Auto-Prompter Kit
For use with miniature tape recorders, dat recorders, or MP-3 players for
discrete cueing applications. Allows the user to listen to prerecorded cues
when giving speeches or presentations. May also be used with all COMTEK personal
receivers. The complete system includes:
* IR-230 universal-fit ear canal inductor receiver
* NTC-102 neck-loop transductor with two 32" down-lead cords (one 1/8" and
one 3/32" plug)
* P-11 storage pouch.
8 October 2004. Thanks to K., who writes:
Here're 28 pics from the video of the debate
[C-SPAN 30 Sept 04] that have been cropped
and scaled (optimized for best quality) showing Bush's back throughout the
debate with timestamps above so anyone can verify it's real.
Whatever the bulge is, it doesn't change shape, it holds its form throughout
his movement, like metal wire would, so unless he's got some crazy thing
going on with the guy who made that suit, he's wired.
The last photo shows Bush telling someone to "let me finish."
Another video has a interested ending where you see one of Bush's aids (or
someone) come onto stage after the debate to grab Bush's notepad and look
at Kerry's.
James Atkinson writes 11 October 2004 of the frequencies below:
The 400 MHz frequencies that are listed below for Wireless Microphones are
not part of a "prompter" system, but instead simple wireless microphone systems
used by the Secret Service for (often illegal) technical surveillance, and
typically worn by agents, informants, and similar folks (not the President).
These systems work by transmitting a signal FROM the person wearing the device
and relaying it to a remote listening post. For example, a Secret Service
agent will wear a system such as this when they attend a 2600 meeting a show
like Black Hat where they are trying to set up a sting on someone, or entice
someone into committing a criminal act.
See also radio frequencies used by the White House and Secret Service, among
them these for wireless body microphones:
http://cascanning.tripod.com/miscfreq/president.html
| Special Usage (Technical Security) Division |
| 408.0000 |
F1 RF ALARM |
| 411.0000 |
F2 RF ALARM |
| 408.5000 |
F3 TRACKER- F1 |
| 408.9750 |
F4 TRACKER- F2 |
| 406.2625 |
WIRELESS BODY MICROPHONE |
| 407.8250 |
WIRELESS BODY MICROPHONE |
| 407.8750 |
WIRELESS BODY MICROPHONE |
| 407.9750 |
WIRELESS BODY MICROPHONE |
8 October 2004. Thanks to C. Comments on this invited. Send to
jya@pipeline.com
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/08/bulge/index.html
Bush's mystery bulge
The rumor is flying around the globe. Was the president wired during the
first debate?
By Dave Lindorff
Oct. 8, 2004 | Was President Bush literally channeling Karl Rove
in his first debate with John Kerry? That's the latest rumor flooding the
Internet, unleashed last week in the wake of an image caught by a television
camera during the Miami debate. The image shows a large solid object between
Bush's shoulder blades as he leans over the lectern and faces moderator Jim
Lehrer.
The president is not known to wear a back brace, and it's safe to say he
wasn't packing. So was the bulge under his well-tailored jacket a hidden
receiver, picking up transmissions from someone offstage feeding the president
answers through a hidden earpiece? Did the device explain why the normally
ramrod-straight president seemed hunched over during much of the debate?
Bloggers are burning up their keyboards with speculation. Check out the
president's peculiar behavior during the debate, they say. On several occasions,
the president simply stopped speaking for an uncomfortably long time and
stared ahead with an odd expression on his face. Was he listening to someone
helping him with his response to a question? Even weirder was the president's
strange outburst. In a peeved rejoinder to Kerry, he said, "As the politics
change, his positions change. And that's not how a commander in chief acts.
I, I, uh -- Let me finish -- The intelligence I looked at was the same
intelligence my opponent looked at." It must be said that Bush pointed toward
Lehrer as he declared "Let me finish." The green warning light was lit, signaling
he had 30 seconds to, well, finish.
Hot on the conspiracy trail, I tried to track down the source of the photo.
None of the Bush-is-wired bloggers, however, seemed to know where the photo
came from. Was it possible the bulge had been Photoshopped onto Bush's back
by a lone conspiracy buff? It turns out that all of the video of the debate
was recorded and sent out by Fox News, the pool broadcaster for the event.
Fox sent feeds from multiple cameras to the other networks, which did their
own on-air presentations and editing.
To watch the debate again, I ventured to the Web site of the most sober network
I could think of: C-SPAN. And sure enough, at minute 23 on the video of the
debate, you can clearly see the bulge between the president's shoulder blades.
Bloggers stoke the conspiracy with the claim that the Bush administration
insisted on a condition that no cameras be placed behind the candidates.
An official for the Commission on Presidential Debates, which set up the
lecterns and microphones on the Miami stage, said the condition was indeed
real, the result of negotiations by both campaigns. Yet that didn't
stop Fox from setting up cameras behind Bush and Kerry. The official said
that "microphones were mounted on lecterns, and the commission put no electronic
devices on the president or Senator Kerry." When asked about the bulge on
Bush's back, the official said, "I don't know what that was."
So what was it? Jacob McKenna, a spyware expert and the owner of the Spy
Store, a high-tech surveillance shop in Spokane, Wash., looked at the Bush
image on his computer monitor. "There's certainly something on his back,
and it appears to be electronic," he said. McKenna said that, given its shape,
the bulge could be the inductor portion of a two-way push-to-talk system.
McKenna noted that such a system makes use of a tiny microchip-based earplug
radio that is pushed way down into the ear canal, where it is virtually
invisible. He also said a weak signal could be scrambled and be undetected
by another broadcaster.
Mystery-bulge bloggers argue that the president may have begun using such
technology earlier in his term. Because Bush is famously prone to malapropisms
and reportedly dyslexic, which could make successful use of a teleprompter
problematic, they say the president and his handlers may have turned to a
technique often used by television reporters on remote stand-ups. A reporter
tapes a story and, while on camera, plays it back into an earpiece, repeating
lines just after hearing them, managing to sound spontaneous and error free.
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."
Repeated calls to the White House and the Bush national campaign office over
a period of three days, inquiring about what the president may have been
wearing on his back during the debate, and whether he had used an audio device
at other events, went unreturned. So far the Kerry campaign is staying clear
of this story. When called for a comment, a press officer at the Democratic
National Committee claimed on Tuesday that it was "the first time" they'd
ever heard of the issue. A spokeswoman at the press office of Kerry headquarters
refused to permit me to talk with anyone in the campaign's research office.
Several other requests for comment to the Kerry campaign's press office went
unanswered.
As for whether we really do have a Milli Vanilli president, the answer at
this point has to be, God only knows.
28 images in two composites of 14 clips each of the bulge excerpted from
the debate video [C-SPAN 30 Sept 04]:
http://cryptome.info/0001/bush-bulge/bush-bulge-28.jpg
http://cryptome.info/0001/bush-bulge/bush-bulge-28-2.jpg
