Big Day for Bulgegate!

It's a big day for Bulgegate! A top NASA scientist... a spy store owner... and an audio expert all strongly suspect Bush was wired!

Will the reporters traveling with Bush - or the White House press corps - stop accepting Bushit?

Kevin Burger, Salon.com: NASA Photo Expert Says Bush Was Wired

Dr. Robert M. Nelson, however, was not laughing. He knew the president was not telling the truth. And Nelson is neither conspiracy theorist nor midnight blogger. He's a senior research scientist for NASA and for Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and an international authority on image analysis...

A professional physicist and photo analyst for more than 30 years, he speaks earnestly and thoughtfully about his subject. 'I am willing to stake my scientific reputation to the statement that Bush was wearing something under his jacket during the debate,' he says. 'This is not about a bad suit'...

Nelson stresses that he's not certain what lies beneath the president's jacket. He offers, though, 'that it could be some type of electronic device -- it's consistent with the appearance of an electronic device worn in that manner.' The image of lines coursing up and down the president's back, Nelson adds, is 'consistent with a wire or a tube.

David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle: Spy Shop Owner Says Bush Was Wired

Jason Woodside, owner of San Francisco's International Spy Shop, the Bay Area's sole purveyor of espionage and counterespionage gear, could only shake his head when told of Bush's explanation. 'A poorly tailored shirt,' he said. 'It's possible. But it looks like a wireless induction system. It looks like this.' Woodside held up a picture of a small, rectangular receiver, about the same size as the device Bush is alleged to have worn. It comes with an antenna that's looped around the neck and a wireless earpiece...

He pointed at a picture from the debate, in which the material of the president's jacket appears taut and unpuckered. 'Here's the receiver,' Woodside said, tracing the outline of the rectangular bulge on Bush's back. 'Here's the antenna,' he said, moving his finger along what appears to be a line from the bulge to Bush's right shoulder. Woodside nodded to himself. 'My gut tells me he's got something on him.

Colin Green, Bush conspiracy theory details filled out

Some have discounted the whole theory stating that radio receivers are far smaller than the bulge, which is true, except that if he really were receiving an audio feed it would almost certainly be an encrypted digital signal via a spread spectrum rf carrier - why? because otherwise anyone could listen in and prove the feed's existence, also a spread spectrum carrier is hard or impossible to pick up on with a standard radio scanner or frequency analyzer, and they are far harder signals to 'jam'. Receiving such a signal and converting it to audio cannot be done within a miniturised earpiece, a second device would be required to receive and decode the signal and then relay it to the earpiece, probably via a very low power inductance loop similar to those used in cinemas, a low power loop would prevent pickup by nearby microphones. To power all of that for 90 minutes would require a reasonable quantity of batteries. So all of this speculation ties in with the bulge and the wire that is visible running up his right shoulder (to an inductance loop as close to his ear as possible):

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/29/bulge/index_np.html

If we follow this theory through the bulge would be the receiver/relayer, the wire up the right shoulder is to an inductance loop, perhaps in his collar, and it also looks to me that there is a wire travelling down his back, which would correspond to the wire seen behind his tie. This wire that we can see is actually quite prominent by way of its thickness, say 5mm. Such thickness would only normally be used to convey power - from a battery pack somewhere on his person, to the receiver on his back. Also note that the tie wire disappears into the left hand side of Bush's jacket - the same side as the wire seen down his lower back.