Joe Biden’s Wandering Eye — Part 1
Government types love talking in alphabet code, particularly when it comes to VIPs, which makes it easier to joke about them without underlings catching on. As Vice President, Joe Biden was a popular target for such opaque japery. The Secret Service called him BOR for ‘Box of Rocks,’ the White House staff dubbed him NBB for ‘Not the Brightest Bulb,’ and the NSA/CIA/FBI crowd referred to him simply as PJ, short for Pervy Joe. At the NSA, though, Biden’s sobriquet suddenly changed sometime in 2012, when he became WEE, translated by anonymous sources as the ‘Wandering Evil Eye.’ There’s an important story behind this.
Biden was given a routine physical prior to a state visit to Russia that year. Well, routine for Joe, maybe, but not for the eminent ophthalmological surgeon who unobtrusively implanted the world’s tiniest camera into the Vice President’s left eye. (See the photo above.) The device had multiple capabilities. It could transition automatically to night-vision mode and back. It could, via transmitted instructions, record both video and audio of everything in its line of sight. Its purpose was to enable the NSA to augment Biden’s frequently vague and selective memories of private conversations with high-ranking persons of interest to U.S. Intelligence and the Secretary of State.
COVERT-19, as the device was named after a long and difficult testing process, performed flawlessly for the remainder of the Obama administration. It was subsequently re-purposed in 2017, when the NSA realized the advantages of Joe’s penchant for dropping in unexpectedly on old pals still working unobtrusively in the White House, nominally for the Trump administration. Much of the information used to acquire the dozens of FISA warrants against Trump officials were acquired in this way.
But then, as Biden returned to the public eye in the buildup to the 2020 presidential campaign, people began to notice, and photograph, strange symptoms affecting his left eye. That there was some kind of a problem was obvious. But the depth and import of that problem would prove to be far more complex than anyone could have anticipated.
Proceed to Part 2
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