Secret Service Posed as Fox News Reporters

[brettdale]

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/14119840.htm

There was a whirlwind of activity in the days prior to President Bush's arrival at a home on the beach in Gautier last week, with government officials and Secret Service scouting a location and checking the neighborhood where Bush would stop.

The reason for all the fuss was kept a secret even from the family that received Bush. They didn't know it was prelude to a presidential visit until the day Bush arrived.

But one part of the preparation for the President's arrival involved two government agents posing as journalists.

Recounting the pre-visit days for WLOX and the Sun Herald, Jerry Akins, who received Bush, mentioned that on the Friday before Bush arrived, two men approached him identifying themselves as members of the media.

[Hekate]

1. How appropriate they would choose to impersonate reporters from Faux

Hi, Agent Mike!

Hekate

[wakeme2008]

2. I do not believe they were SS but from the same WH group

that pretended to be SS in Denver and kicked the three people out over their bumper sticker. Now not SS but Fox reporter... New game same ppl Just IMHO...

[bluestateguy]

3. I wonder how the SS passed that off

Posing as Fox News reporters?

I wonder which long-legged bubbly blonde dame got that assignment.

[populistdriven]

4. There is a difference?

[Benhurst]

5. The White House and Fox News are separate organizations?

[Hubert Flottz]

6. I just wonder when the SS will start wearing black uniforms with

the correct insignia of rank and unit?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. wasn't there a statute making this illegal in the US?

then again, why would that stop these criminals?