Posted on 11/17/2013 11:57:06 AM PST by billorites
When President Barack Obama travels abroad, his staff packs briefing books, gifts for foreign leaders and something more closely associated with camping than diplomacy: a tent.
Even when Obama travels to allied nations, aides quickly set up the security tent which has opaque sides and noise-making devices inside in a room near his hotel suite. When the president needs to read a classified document or have a sensitive conversation, he ducks into the tent to shield himself from secret video cameras and listening devices.
American security officials demand that their bosses not just the president, but members of Congress, diplomats, policy makers and military officers take such precautions when traveling abroad because it is widely acknowledged that their hosts often have no qualms about snooping on their guests.
The United States has come under withering criticism in recent weeks about revelations that the National Security Agency listened in on allied leaders like Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany. A panel created by Mr. Obama in August to review that practice, among other things, is scheduled to submit a preliminary report this week and a final report by the middle of next month. But American officials assume — and can cite evidence — that they get the same treatment when they travel abroad, even from European Union allies.
“No matter where you are, we are a target these days,” said R. James Woolsey Jr., director of central intelligence during the Clinton administration. “No matter where we go, countries like China, Russia and much of the Arab world have assets and are trying to spy on us so you have to think about that and take as many precautions as possible.”
On a trip to Latin America in 2011, for example, a White House photo showed Mr. Obama talking from a security tent...
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Duh, it’s not like he is the only President to use the “tent”, New York Times.
Maybe you need to report real news instead of changing the subject. Besides, the Idiot in Chief carries a freakin cell phone because he refused to give it up.
The Faraday Hut.
You beat me by this much!
While I was trying to remember how to post an image, the thread happened without me ...
I said, "I KNEW IT WAS A RACE AGAINST TIME TO BE THE FIRST!!"
Obama has already leaked everything our enemies need to know. Remember this is a freakin staged photo. FACT: Photographers aren't allowed to take real pictures like normal President s allowed.
Find the camel’s nose...
Maybe if we tell the union goons there's a conservative in the tent they will stomp it to the ground like they did in Michigan.
The guy in the middle, left of center in the frame.
Is that a Persian carpet?
Can you hear me? What?
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