WhiteHouse Advance Men Impersonated Fox News jouranalists & Secret Service

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WH Advance Men, Not Secret Service, Punk'd MS Town
By Justin Rood - March 18, 2006, 9:56 AM
This morning, the Washington Post reports conclusively that Secret Service personnel did not falsely portray themselves as journalists while doing advance work in a Mississippi town Bush was set to visit. An earlier article from a local paper suggested this was the case.

No, it was instead "two government employees" who first impersonated journalists from FOX News, and then impersonated the Secret Service.

Jerry Akins, the Mississippean who was the butt of the joke, had told the Biloxi Sun-Herald two days ago that he had "assumed" the two men were Secret Service, after they showed him "blue porcelain lapel pins" and a third man confirmed they were "with the Presidential entourage."

Akins' recollection seems to have improved since then. As he tells the Post now, the two men said they were Secret Service:

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000129.php

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1. Even in Mississippi "they" are scared witless that the President would ...

.... meet w/ real people. Crowds have to be screened, then the people have to
be checked, bumper stickers have to be looked @, and t shirts read .......

but even w/ all this his bubble is is getting chipped away at.

And who are these white house boot licks? Shouldn't they be in Iraq anyway?

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2. Especially in Mississippi. They have to protect Shrub from Dr. Marble.

"Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney. Go fuck yourself, you asshole."

Dr. Ben Marble, M.D. is a Gulfport, Mississippi emergency room physician known for his televised heckling of United States Vice President Dick Cheney on September 8, 2005. While returning to salvage what he could from his home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, Marble was stopped by military police who refused to let him cross the train tracks approximately 150 feet from his home. He was told "No one can pass here". As he turned his nearly-out-of-gas moving van around the MP's let Dick Cheney's convoy of cars pass over the same train tracks. Upon encountering Vice President Cheney after taking the long way to his destroyed house, a frustrated Marble quoted Dick Cheney to Dick Cheney by shouting , "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney. Go fuck yourself, you asshole."


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Oorah!

[BrotherBuzz]

3. Not the first time "Republican Operators" impersonated Secret Service

A "volunteer" police state

Why were we forced out of Bush's Social Security talk? And why won't the White House identify that fake Secret Service agent who stopped us?

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By Leslie Weise



April 25, 2005  |  Just over a month has passed since two friends and I were forced out of President Bush's town hall-style "conversation" in Denver about privatizing Social Security. Despite the support we have received from elected officials in our request for answers from the White House regarding this incident, Karen Bauer, Alex Young and I still await a satisfactory explanation of why our First Amendment rights were violated.

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Some questions have been answered since that day. We now know that, despite holding valid tickets and being properly dressed, Alex, Karen and I were removed from the event because of the message on a bumper sticker on my car: "No More Blood for Oil." This detail was revealed during a telephone conversation with the Secret Service the day after the incident. A week later, in a face-to-face meeting, the Secret Service also informed us that the man who had removed us was not an agent but a "Republican staffer" on the host committee responsible for managing security. They would not disclose his identity to us, however.

What's more, we have confirmed that the president's Social Security "conversation" was not a private event but, rather, a taxpayer-funded public event open to anyone with a valid ticket. While all this information is telling, as a tax-paying, law-abiding citizen with the right to peacefully express an antiwar statement on a bumper sticker, I believe I deserve more answers. Specifically, who is this person who represented himself as a Secret Service agent empowered to use physical force? Further, who was giving instructions to him and his cohorts?

Most important to me is getting an answer as to why this happened to us. Are citizens who oppose the Iraq war less entitled than those who support it to engage in a dialogue about Social Security -- or any other issue about which Americans need to hear all sides to make informed decisions?


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http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/04/25/denver_incident/