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• Tuesday, January 1, 2008 06:40 PM

  @Jim White

  The only other things I can find out is that the plan included distributing 25,000 pre-stamped ballots in Punjab, and that the safe house was in G-5 in Islamabad. No details that I could find on the computer equipment, that would be a huge inquiry here, I would think, if it was surveillance equipment of the sort being contested in the FISA/illegal wiretapping disputes.

  The Guardian is reporting more on the report. There were two, only the 200 pp one is available to anyone yet, the smaller one that names the safe house exactly is being closely held. bdnews24 is reporting that violations were planned in Baluchistan and Sindh as well.

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2233779,00.html

  http://world.bdnews24.com/details.php?cid=1&id=34320#tp34320

  (bdnews24, in Bangladesh, requires registration).

  I didn't find much to add to the CNN story in India, but they are reporting that all the British papers are on it, I only went to the Guardian to confirm that.

  Teeth Maestro reports that Bhutto didn't trust the administration (U.S.) and that was why she was intending to reveal hers and Khosa's information to members of U.S. Congress. Teeth Maestro's information is from the London Times, the article doesn't include what was said by Senator Khosa, so I suspect it is older.

  I, for one, want to know if my government is distributing surveillance equipment that isn't very legal here at home, especially when it ends up being used for a purpose for which this administration is already 3000 missing emails, 9 dubious U.S. Attorneys, and numerous investigations under suspicion here, and it ties together two scandals (NSA and USA) here, in a foreign country run by an inexplicably all too precious dictator. I think that if a significant period of time goes by and there isn't a peep out of our Congress or administration, it's time to start the letter writing again.

  I will try to be patient for more facts, but the equipment possibility makes me furious.

  —ondelette Read ondelette's other letters
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