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sabra

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Tue Aug-15-06 08:54 AM
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White House says 12 radios went missing

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060815/NEWS01/608150387/1002/NEWS01

White House says 12 radios went missing
How a pair of Bettendorf teens wound up with two of them still isn't clear.

Two White House radios found on a pair of Bettendorf teenagers last month were among 12 such devices that went missing shortly before a July 17 visit to Iowa by Vice President Dick Cheney, a government spokesman confirmed Monday.

But government officials again refused to say how the boys, ages 13 and 14, ended up with secure communications equipment marked as belonging to the White House Communications Agency.

Michael Thiem, public affairs officer for the Defense Information Systems Agency, said the 12 radios were discovered missing shortly before Cheney's trip to Davenport and Des Moines "by an advance communications team responsible for establishing mobile connectivity for the vice president."

"The circumstances that enabled the juveniles to come into possession of the radios are still under review," Thiem said in a written statement.

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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf

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Tue Aug-15-06 08:57 AM
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1. These are not mere radios.

These are very expensive portable devices, tactical portable radios with classified digital encryption and frequency agility. It is highly likely that whoever was in charge of these radios is in a pickle right now.

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MaineDem

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Tue Aug-15-06 09:01 AM
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2. "It is highly likely..."

I would most certainly hope so!

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pokercat999

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Tue Aug-15-06 09:01 AM
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3. Only in America.....eom

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RufusEarl

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Tue Aug-15-06 09:11 AM
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6. Only with this administration !

The radio's that went missing are small items compared to the billions of dollars this admin has lost are have stolen. It's mind boggling !!

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lgn19087

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:40 AM
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17. Generally

I'm with you on most of this stuff, but I fail to see how some techie from WHCA forgetting to pick up some radioes has anything to do with the "Bush Administration". WHCA is apolitical. Let's save our energy for the real battles.

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tabasco

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:51 AM
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19. The Bush cabal has appointed unqualified cronies at all levels.

Homeland Security is supposed to be non-political too, and we have an incompetent person with dual citizenship in charge of it.

Here is a link for those who defend Bush:

www.goarmy.com

You love Bush so much, get your ass to Iraq.

There is a recruiting crisis right now. Stop fighting the culture war at your keyboard, brave warrior! Get your ass in a real one.

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lpbk2713

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:55 AM
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21. It might be that whoever was in charge of the radios

was busy doing a heck of a job judging a horse show at the time.

:eyes: :eyes:

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lgn19087

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Tue Aug-15-06 08:41 PM
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37. Hey pal

I was simply stating that not every screwup that occurs is personally the fault of Bush. I have an intense dislike of President Bush (to put it mildly) but I don't let my emotion cloud my judgement, as you clearly cannot do. If you'll look at my posts I think it's pretty clear I'm a huge anti-Bush, but I really don't have to prove it to someone like you. So unless you have something substantive to contribute to this thread, I'd really rather if you just left me alone.

Thanks.

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RufusEarl

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Tue Aug-15-06 11:01 AM
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24. Well to me it shows a level of incompetence, that never been matched.

And it's my understanding that these particular radios weren't just radios but have encrypted information that is valuable in of themselves.

I mean a radio here a billion dollars there, pretty soon we're talking real incompetence. And since 2000 i have no desire to cut this bunch any slack.

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Ezlivin

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Tue Aug-15-06 09:19 AM
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7. We'll know who lost the radios - they'll be promoted or awarded a medal

But the person who discovered the missing radios and alerted authorities will be in trouble.

Got to quell those whistle-blowers, you know?

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kestrel91316

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:10 AM
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9. Whoever did it will get the Presidential Medal of Freedom and be put

in charge of the NSA.

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slampoet

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:59 AM
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22. You're right!

Edited on Tue Aug-15-06 10:59 AM by slampoet

Whoever is responsible will be getting their promotion soon!

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slampoet

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Tue Aug-15-06 11:00 AM
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23. sorry duped someone's snark

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zreosumgame

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Tue Aug-15-06 12:01 PM
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28. maybe waiting for his/her Medal of Freedom?

n/t

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tocqueville

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Tue Aug-15-06 09:08 AM
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4. imagine what pranks you can pull in a situation like that...

and make Dick feel like the quailhawk he is

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lpbk2713

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:20 AM
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15. I wouldn't want to screw around with them.

If they are used by the White House staff they are probably equipped with a GPS sender that sends out info whenever the power is turned on. They wouldn't want to release security info but that might be how they caught the kids.

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Ian David

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Tue Aug-15-06 04:12 PM
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35. You mean in case Snake has to rescue The President?

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librechik

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Tue Aug-15-06 09:10 AM
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5. this item goes in the timeline of the next attack

Edited on Tue Aug-15-06 09:11 AM by librechik

nobody could have imagined...

:tinfoilhat:

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QuettaKid

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Tue Aug-15-06 09:20 AM
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8. BINGO.

you are correct on that one. bookmark it so we can all come back here and look-see.

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msanthrope

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:13 AM
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12. Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!!!!! We Have a Winner!!! n/t

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zbdent

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:11 AM
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10. interesting rewards for political contributions?

Hmm, it's a thought ...

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DoYouEverWonder

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:13 AM
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11. So much for Homeland Security

They can't even keep the WH secure.

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goforit

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:15 AM
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13. My God!! Plamegate and now this? Cheney is a threat to national security

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theguvnorgc

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:18 AM
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14. The Juveniles!?!

The JUVENILES already HAD the radios!

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sendero

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:37 AM
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16. Needless to say..

... these devices, if they fell into the wrong hands, could be reverse-engineered which would totally compromise the secrecy of any communications made using them.

This is a big deal.

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damntexdem

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Tue Aug-15-06 03:09 PM
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32. This is a big deal only if ...

we give a damn.

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951-Riverside

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:46 AM
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18. I suspect these are Secret Service radios at most

Why would the VP need 12 RADIOS to communicate with his team and why would he or anyone with him leave these radios behind if they're so important?

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Jeanette in FL

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Tue Aug-15-06 10:55 AM
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20. Just like when the Presidential plans were found in garbage in May

It appears to me that someone in the Whitehouse beat doesn't like the current regime. Remember this one?

Bush Administration officials insist they have no idea how a minute-by-minute schedule for the President's trip to Florida landed in a pile of trash, where almost anyone could grab it, hours before the President took off.

But the White House does admit the document should have been burned not tossed.

The document in question appears to be a White House staff schedule for the President's trip to Florida Tuesday. And a sanitation worker was alarmed to find in the trash long hours before Mr. Bush left for his trip.

It's the kind of thing you would expect would be shredded or burned, not thrown in the garbage.
Randy Hopkins could not believe what he was seeing.

http://www.wusatv9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=49159

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QuettaKid

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Tue Aug-15-06 11:09 AM
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25. from the article.

"" Bradshaw and Reyes claim to have found the equipment hidden in some trees near the two hotels.""

Perhaps they were placed there by someone on the WH staff to be picked up later. Or have I watched too many episodes of 24?

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Kailassa

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Tue Aug-15-06 01:42 PM
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30. The article has been rewritten since you c/p'd that.

And now that information is no longer in it.

I guess it was incriminating someone with the power to have it pulled.

This does not happen by accident. Those kids unwittingly picked up something
carefully left for someone else to find.

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Ian David

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Tue Aug-15-06 04:14 PM
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36. Maybe the person in charge of the equipment is dead...

and the radios were abandonded so that the killers couldn't be tracked via GPS?

:tinfoil:

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damntexdem

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Tue Aug-15-06 03:11 PM
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33. But isn't the garbage where this President's plans belong ...

every month?

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sinkingfeeling

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Tue Aug-15-06 11:09 AM
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26. Can anybody spell 'incompetence'? How the he** do they keep

'losing' all this stuff and $billions?

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Bluzmann57

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Tue Aug-15-06 11:55 AM
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27. When darth cheney visited our fair town

last month, the local police were confiscating...flags on little wooden sticks from some protestors. Most of the people who got their sticks confiscated were elderly people who have more patriotism and have sacrificed more than cheney ever will. These confiscations were done at the behest of the Secret Service, which probably means cheney was behind it. Maybe the SS should have been paying more attention to those kids instead of the protestors with flags on sticks. Just another example how they want to squelch our free speech at the cost of security. There may be some links to both of these stories at www.qctimes.com. I suspect if you search the archives you may find these stories. Quite frankly, I'm just too lazy to look at this time.

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gratuitous

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Tue Aug-15-06 12:31 PM
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29. How do these people tie their own shoes without hanging themselves?

Truly, this is some mind-boggling shit. Tell me again how much better the GOP is on security, when they can't even keep track of their own squawk boxes. And aren't we lucky that it was just a couple of kids who found this, instead of someone with slightly less candor and relative innocence?

The Mighty Republican Wurlitzer had a field day with the alleged Clinton haircut. My guess is that this mishandling of sensitive communications equipment will vanish with nary a blip on the national radar, hardly worthy of a mention by the librul media.

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damntexdem

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Tue Aug-15-06 03:05 PM
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31. What can one say other than ...

LOL?

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Ian David

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Tue Aug-15-06 04:05 PM
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34. I bet you could hear Karl Rove coaching Bush during the Debates with one

Was Bush Wired? Sure Looks Like It.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/11/10_407.html

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lgn19087

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Tue Aug-15-06 08:50 PM
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39. Wouldn't suprise me

But he sounded like a bumbling idiot anyway.

Figures.

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Joey Liberal

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Tue Aug-15-06 08:47 PM
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38. It never ends with Bush/Cheney n/t

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