Thread: Mex. press attache caught stealing White House blackberries!

Can you believe it...one of Calderon's own press attache's gets caught stealing blackberries of White House officials and gets nabbed with them at the airport.....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352378,00.html


Secret Service Catch Mexican Official Nabbing White House BlackBerries

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Whether he was up to no good or simply desperate to play BrickBreaker, a Mexican press attache was caught on camera by Secret Service pocketing several White House BlackBerries during a recent meeting in New Orleans, FOX News has learned.

Sources with knowledge of the incident said the official, whose first name is Rafael, took six or seven of the handheld devices from a table outside a special room in the hotel where the Mexican delegation was meeting with President Bush.

Everyone entering the room was required to leave their cell phones, BlackBerries and other such devices on the table, a commonplace practice when high-level meetings are held. American officials discovered their missing belongings when they were leaving the session.

It didn't take long before Secret Service officials reviewed videotape taken by a surveillance camera and found footage showing "Rafael" absconding with the BlackBerries.

Sources said "Rafael" made it all the way to the airport, where the Mexican president was preparing to leave New Orleans, before Secret Service officers caught up with him. He was forced to return the BlackBerries.

Sources said the man claimed to have taken the devices accidentally. The sources said they believe no further actions were taken against him by American authorities, though it is unclear what disciplinary measures, if any, await him in Mexico.

What is valuable hat was in the press attaches pocket was not the Blacberries but rather the information that was on them. This incident if it were done by either Russians or Chinese smacks of espionage. Instead of assuming that the attache was merely a kleptomaniac should have been arrested and seriously examined for espionage.

excellent point.....let's hope that none of the information was copied prior to the thief being caught. I guess now there needs to be a security guard outside these meetings guarding such devices from the foreign press corp intent on stealing.

Send em to my house for rehab!!

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