Private Cumshoe posted:

Precious wasted Chicago police resources

Animal-Mother posted:

Photographic evidence that Dick Cheney appears to have a giant hog

Spergin Morlock posted:

it was a colostomy bag lol

Spergin Morlock posted:

it was a colostomy bag lol

Private Cumshoe posted:

was? did it break?

uber_stoat posted:

if you were taking a meeting with Dick and his bag burst, you'd just have to pretend it didn't happen, right?

Milo and POTUS posted:

He's shot men for less

HashtagGirlboss posted:

Man that saga was so hard to even try to follow I eventually just gave up because his story didn’t make any sense at all but neither did the cops and it just turned into an annoying culture war battle

HashtagGirlboss posted:

Man that saga was so hard to even try to follow I eventually just gave up because his story didn’t make any sense at all but neither did the cops and it just turned into an annoying culture war battle

One More Fat Nerd posted:

The way you know he did it to himself rather than an elaborate CPD frame job is that the CPD would have just shot him 17 times in front of 6 different cameras and gotten away with it.

Dokapon Findom posted:

He lied and the cops correctly didn't believe him and called him out on it, not sure what aspect of the police position was nonsensical given that it was 100% accurate from the onset. Wow what a culture war battle. So hard to follow! Impossible to even try.

It is not Good Praxis to deny objective reality, you can let the CPD have this one

HashtagGirlboss posted:

Lmao imagine taking the word of the cpd for anything ever

Johnny Five-Jaces posted:

rinse pubis

Spergin Morlock posted:

he went from being the WH chief of staff to being a JAG officer lmao

Spergin Morlock posted:

he went from being the WH chief of staff to being a JAG officer lmao

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

whoa, he got to be on JAG?!

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

whoa, he got to be on JAG?!

The Wall Street Journal - Jan 21, 2002 posted:

Revelations that a U.S.-made plane supplied to the Chinese president came riddled with eavesdropping devices is discomfiting China's leaders, but the low-key Chinese response so far suggests it won't upset efforts to improve ties, or a planned summit next month.

China's government ordered the luxuriously outfitted plane, a modified Boeing 767, in mid-2000 for President Jiang Zemin, and a company owned by the Chinese air force flew it to Beijing in August. Within a few weeks, military technicians uncovered more than 20 listening devices, according to people familiar with the situation. Among the detected bugs were sophisticated models activated by satellite; one such device was found planted behind the headboard of the presidential bed, according to foreign diplomats and a Chinese scholar with military ties.

While such an incident could easily upset perennially bumpy relations between the U.S. and China, Beijing hasn't engaged in any public finger-pointing despite the fact that it has known about the bugs for months. Chinese and foreign aviation-industry executives said they learned about the bugged plane more than three months ago during routine contacts with Chinese officials. "This isn't an issue that just came up this week," said Co. spokeswoman Donna Mikov.

The incident became public over the weekend, following reports by the Washington Post and Financial Times. In their wake, the Bush administration, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and China's foreign and defense ministries all declined to comment. And so far there is no hard evidence linking Washington to the bugging.

"We simply don't comment on these sorts of matters," Secretary of State Colin Powell said on "Fox News Sunday." "In my discussions with Chinese leaders, this has never been raised."

The public silence on a potentially explosive issue suggests that China is especially keen to nurture good political relations with the U.S. to underpin already robust economic ties. Relations have steadily improved since their most recent nadir -- a diplomatic standoff after a Chinese fighter jet and a U.S. reconnaissance plane collided in April. Both governments have used the Sept. 11 attacks and Washington's war on terrorism to voice common cause. And preparations are proceeding for a Bush-Jiang summit in Beijing starting Feb. 21.

"Beijing is taking it quietly now, hoping to use it as credit later," said a Western diplomat familiar with the incident.
U.S. companies which made and outfitted the presidential plane deny knowledge of the bugging and note that China United Airlines, which is run by the Chinese air force, oversaw the process. China United purchased the 767 from Delta Air Lines in June 2000 at Boeing's suggestion, industry executives said. China United then flew the plane to San Antonio. There, Dee Howard Aircraft Maintenance LP, Gore Designs Completions Ltd. and other contractors spent nearly a year modifying the plane, ripping out the commercial passenger compartment and replacing it with a luxurious interior, satellite communications and other electronics. All the work was done under 24-hour Chinese security, the executives said.

But the incident could damage U.S.-China relations if the Chinese public gets involved, said diplomats and scholars. Many Chinese feel that Americans fear China's rising power, and they regard the U.S. with hostility. Public outrage over April's midair collision off the Chinese coast and the 1999 bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia prolonged both disputes by pressuring Beijing to take a harder line against the U.S. without any evident gain. The bugging of President Jiang's jet could fall into the same category, poisoning the summit and making it difficult for Chinese officials to display amity toward President Bush.

Recriminations over the incident are already flying in Chinese military and aviation circles. At least two executives with China Air Supply Import & Export Corp., which helped negotiate the plane's purchase and refurbishing, have been detained, as well as at least one senior air-force officer, industry executives and military-linked Chinese scholars said. It is unclear what prompted the detentions, though. Some people familiar with the matter said it was punishment for security lapses. Others said the reason was a scandal involving alleged overcharging for the refitting of the plane -- a possibility that could explain Beijing's reticence over the matter.

mawarannahr posted:

China Stays Silent on Bugging Of President's U.S.-Made Plane - WSJ

Eat This Glob posted:

Hainan Island. luckily, everything came up Eat This Glob after that!

Animal Friend posted:

Just like Oliver North!

Milo and POTUS posted:

drat he got to be in call of duty too?

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

Mister Bates posted:

legendary Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap was a high school history teacher with a dorky obsession with military history and no actual military training whatsoever, who was placed in command of the Vietnamese revolutionary movement's tiny new army because he was the only person in the party leadership who knew anything at all about how armies were organized

prior to that he wrote a bunch of articles about history for various underground pro-independence papers, but they were notorious for being excessively wordy and boring, and his good friend Ho Chi Minh was constantly making fun of him for putting his nerd poo poo in the revolutionary press

by complete coincidence it turned out he was a military prodigy and an honest-to-god strategic genius who went on to be arguably one of the greatest generals in modern history, and he played a major role in defeating both the French and the Americans, but if he'd been born 50 years later he would have probably just gotten really into Warhammer

Mister Bates posted:

legendary Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap was a high school history teacher with a dorky obsession with military history and no actual military training whatsoever, who was placed in command of the Vietnamese revolutionary movement's tiny new army because he was the only person in the party leadership who knew anything at all about how armies were organized

prior to that he wrote a bunch of articles about history for various underground pro-independence papers, but they were notorious for being excessively wordy and boring, and his good friend Ho Chi Minh was constantly making fun of him for putting his nerd poo poo in the revolutionary press

by complete coincidence it turned out he was a military prodigy and an honest-to-god strategic genius who went on to be arguably one of the greatest generals in modern history, and he played a major role in defeating both the French and the Americans, but if he'd been born 50 years later he would have probably just gotten really into Warhammer

mawarannahr posted:

dozens of cspam posters: "this is me. maybe it will happen some day."

the milk machine posted:

bobby jindal

Mister Bates posted:

legendary Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap was a high school history teacher with a dorky obsession with military history and no actual military training whatsoever, who was placed in command of the Vietnamese revolutionary movement's tiny new army because he was the only person in the party leadership who knew anything at all about how armies were organized

prior to that he wrote a bunch of articles about history for various underground pro-independence papers, but they were notorious for being excessively wordy and boring, and his good friend Ho Chi Minh was constantly making fun of him for putting his nerd poo poo in the revolutionary press

by complete coincidence it turned out he was a military prodigy and an honest-to-god strategic genius who went on to be arguably one of the greatest generals in modern history, and he played a major role in defeating both the French and the Americans, but if he'd been born 50 years later he would have probably just gotten really into Warhammer