Video: Project Silent NEMO • Shark-Like Submersible Spy Vehicle

The video tile calls the submersible robot shark-like. I think it is meant to look like a blue fin tune.

Obama Spying on Doctors

He is sending out teams of "mystery shoppers" to spy on doctors. I hope they all get prostrate exams.

Obama administration officials are putting together a team of 'mystery shoppers' to pose as patients, call doctors’ offices and request appointments to see how difficult it is for people to get care when they need it.

The move follows increasing alarm over the shortage of primary care doctors.

The administration says the survey will address the shortage and try to discover whether doctors are accepting patients with private insurance while turning away those in government health programmes that pay lower reimbursement rates.

Federal officials predict that more than 30 million Americans will gain coverage under the health care law passed last year.

Bizarre: Indian police hold pigeon under armed guard after it was caught allegedly spying for Pakistan

You just can't make stuff like this up...

AFP reported:

NEW DELHI — Indian police are holding a pigeon under armed guard after it was caught on an alleged spying mission for arch rivals and neighbours Pakistan, media reported on Friday.

The white-coloured bird was found by a local resident in India's Punjab state, which borders Pakistan, and taken to a police station 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the capital Amritsar.

The pigeon had a ring around its foot and a Pakistani phone number and address stamped on its body in red ink...

Officials have directed that no-one should be allowed to visit the pigeon, which police say may have been on a "special mission of spying".

Does water-boarding work on Pigeons?

Cuban Spy at State department Was Left Wing Wacko

A retired State Department employee and his wife, Walter Kendall Myers and Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, have been charged with spying for Cuba over thirty years. The Myers did not do it for the money, they were left wing wackos who loved Castro and hated President Bush. This is reportedly the same State department employee who tried to damage our relations with the British a few years ago. From BabaluBlog and The Telegraph:

According to the UK Telegraph, it turns out that this Kendall Myers scumbag is the same State Department official who embarrassed both the US and the UK by stating to the press that Britain and the US were really not all that friendly to each other and that Britain should distance itself from the Bush administration.

Wow. This story has just taken my breath away. Do you remember the State Department analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (relatively obscure but one of the US government's intelligence agencies) who caused a storm in late 2006 with his disdainful remarks about the US-UK "special relationship?

His name was Kendall Myers and I was one of two British journalists who reported his decidedly undiplomatic comments. He retired quietly in 2007. Well, he's just been arrested as a spy for Cuba for nearly 30 years. The Cubans apparently knew him better as their Agent 202.

The most telling part of this Telegraph article is the reporter's impression of Myers when he met with him in D.C. for a drink back in 2001.

I found him to be an erudite and well-read fellow who was an interesting conversationalist and was much more indiscreet that most State Department officials. He was clearly no fan of President George W. Bush and seemed to be fit the caricature of the pro-European, soft-Left type that is often levelled at the State Department by conservatives.

I guess Myers is one of those patriotic Bush haters the left keeps telling us about.