Bo Xilai Said To Have Spied On Top China Officials

New York Times :

BEIJING — When Hu Jintao, China’s top leader, picked up the telephone last August to talk to a senior anticorruption official visiting Chongqing, special devices detected that he was being wiretapped — by local officials in that southwestern metropolis.

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12:33 PM on 04/30/2012

Chuck Colson (Pre-1974) would have been proud of the "dirty tricks" employed by Prince Bo and his Cohorts.
Colson Chuck, Obit, NY Times:
(One may observe Prince Bo giving the same compliments to his former team Member.)
"His instinct for the political jugular and his ability to get things done made him a lightening rod for my own frustrations."
* political point man for imaginative dirty tricks.
* when I complained to Colson, I felt confident that something would get done, I was rarely disappointed.
Compliments from the Commander in Chief, CINC. Richard Nixon

[Christine Shackleton]

01:47 PM on 04/26/2012

An advantage of the communist system recognised by USA journalists is that it keeps its elders in its ranks. And in a mix of Communist and Chinese Ancient philosophy their elders will not at the moment fear mis treatment in their old age . Market - Communist forces withstanding -see Sandel-Huff

[Christine Shackleton]

12:35 PM on 04/26/2012

You realise while we all watch or play this game we have all forgotten that the united states information service daybook says it is the birthday of the central intelligence ageny as upgraded from central intelligence organisation date 26th aprill 1947 dulles and unesco

[Christine Shackleton]

12:08 PM on 04/26/2012

Hes a naughty boy. He will lack the essential caddy this year when he visits the land of camp david

[Christine Shackleton]

11:50 AM on 04/26/2012

Alistair Maclean would write his sister said like so--once upon a time their was a plane called andydrop and a very best plane called ilyaillusion; They knew, but sat in a different little airport near mrricefield, davidche and littlemomao. their friendchek and foo dchek had gone off on his own . foo d and his friend infidel had seen the big blad blackk caddy sit their friend twohorse on its bum. That big caddy belonged to their so called plymate kennyd . norty kennyd
So you see the world of espionage is wri rightfully according to Ali stairs sister in hidden verse least you end up being chased all over green land signed monica george and michael--phone 007 bond st

[bryan broome]

10:45 AM on 04/26/2012

Bo knows espionage.

[BroadwayJoe]

10:05 AM on 04/26/2012

Man...this Bo Xilai story gets worse every day....It's a tale of spying, murder, corruption and political intrigue...Basically, Bo Xilai was auditioning to be in the next Bond movie. The thing is that the punishment will not be light. Maybe (to save face) they will simply push him down to some meaningless bureaucratic post or jail him. Don't think they'll opt for capital punishment.

[Christine Shackleton]

10:59 AM on 04/26/2012

I would have thought a person who frequents broadway would have depth-- Their stories dont get worse --they are-- and they are a communist regime -- innovation beyond the state is prohibited
(diamond) as that would threaten the state --the ruling elite-- they dont want your worries but do want you to worry-- the communist state may use any enterprise in any interim to further the cause of global communism (clarke)

[Dan Stewart]

10:05 AM on 04/26/2012

Fortunately, in the US the Constitution and Bill of Rights prevents the government from spying on its citizens without probably cause, except that the NSA surveils and records every call, email, text and web search made by every man woman and child in this country.  But, besides that, we don't do it, period.

[Christine Shackleton]

11:07 AM on 04/26/2012

And USA did away with its secret service appointing therm to the presidents body guards

[AndInOtherNews]

09:24 AM on 04/26/2012

I spy with my little eye something red - and unemployed.

[Christine Shackleton]

10:48 AM on 04/26/2012

you cannot be unemployed in the communist state by definition

[Christine Shackleton]

09:23 AM on 04/26/2012

KGB investigates another section of the KGB -- all encompassed in the one name-- China is a communist country and the elites will protect themselves . The bureaucracy of government in the western world continuously as a matter of political theory-science-- battle parliaments - and more particularly the bureaucracy of the western world will cannibalise its surrounding resources albeit taxpayer or parliament in order to survive even the logical conclusion is that those activities will see through these actions its--the bureaucracies own demise--this is a matter of political theory.
The Chinese Government will not cause its own demise because it is communist and steps are taken before then however terrible --eg gulags-- we consider them

[gmcinahuff]

09:12 AM on 04/26/2012

“This society has bred mistrust and violence,” said Roderick MacFarquhar, a historian of Communist China’s elite-level machinations over the past half century. “Leaders know you have to watch your back because you never know who will put a knife in it.”
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Now, Boehner and Cantor, would never do such a thing. Such nice men, would never undermine our President....

Our country has such a non-violent loving past, just ask John Kennedy. Oh wait, hes not available. Oh, his brother Robert can tell you all about it. Oh, he's not here either. Martin Luther King... uh um... The country of Guatemala, Vietnam... The children of ....

[gmcinahuff]

09:07 AM on 04/26/2012

The story of how China’s president was monitored also shows the level of mistrust among leaders in the one-party state.
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Not like the multi-party U.S., here we all get along.....Dems (aka Socialists and Commi's), Republicans, Independents, Libertarians. It's one big party. Just like the good old times of J. Edgar Hoover and Nixon...

[Gary Storch]

09:02 AM on 04/26/2012

Not much different from any other governments.
Rupert has been hacking British politico's phones and conversations for years with impunity.
The NSA taps all our communications here.
No news, unless you sleep all the time.

[westcoastsc]

08:52 AM on 04/26/2012

Blowing up planes in order to get one person. That kind of stuff is a signature American practice.

The Chinese have been very successful in their spy operations towards us. Very successful.

[JGurung]

08:52 AM on 04/26/2012

It is sad that China is planting stories against one man - Bo Xilai, and the international media is only too happy to publish them. Has anyone ever wondered why there is no news about any leader in China, but so much news about this guy? The New York Times used to know better, and the Huffington Post too.