colloquial
it's been = it has been (implies continuance)
it was = past tense
native american english. no word games
"A California businessman, Johnny Chung, told authorities Ms. Liu was the
conduit for $300,000 from the head of China's Military Intelligence
Directorate, Gen. Ji Shingde, officials said. Federal investigators have
traced a small amount of that money to Democratic campaigns."
https://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg12944.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20040630215113/http://www.orlingrabbe.com/homepage.html
she and bill were all over the inslaw case and stealing PROMIS, selling unlicensed copies of PROMIS with backdoors – at first via burst upload to satellite then later via modems and internet – then porting PROMIS from VMS to Windows NT to make it more desktop convenient. don't let her claim she doesn't know about servers.