Interesting article mentioning ear-piece

[VTGold]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49449-2004Dec8.html

Its about an 18-year tenure White House Interpreter who resigned refused to sign a secrecy agreement - this is the interesting bit:

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Burks interpreted for Bush at an Oval Office meeting with Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri in September 2001, eight days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He says Bush displayed such a detailed grasp of Indonesian issues at the meeting that he came away thinking the president must have been fed information through a hidden earpiece.
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[libbygurl]

1. So now State has lost one of the three highest qualified...

...interpreters for Indonesian, thanks to the secrecy pledge. Good going, guys.

Now I'm afraid for Burks' safety.

[tmooses]

2. He will be declared insane and sent to an asylum-or is that the Gulag?

n/t

[Scout1071]

3. I remember reading about this guy

during the debates. Anyone know if he's real? Certainly wouldn't be surprising.

[JudyM]

4. This is just another issue the press has failed to rigorously investigate

This complacency can drive you mad if you think about it. The Emporer has no clothes on? -- nobody speaks it.

[IAMREALITY]

5. I remember reading a better story on that actually, from a while ago.

Ahhhhhhh, here it is:

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2004/10/bush-interpreter-says-w-uses-earpiece.html