I don't think you need to be a secret service agent to understand that the President is safer with his secret service detail following him into the area he was going into? But you don't have to take my word for it. You take the word of the secret service agent that was trying to follow the President into the area and was prevented from doing his job by the Chileans. You can also take the word of the President who went back out to make sure that he was followed into the area by his secret service escort. Given that, I think your last post is ridiculous, particularly since it is so clearly belied by the actions of both the secret service AND the President. Finally, you seem to be giving the benefit of the doubt to the Chileans and assuming that our secret service people were the ones who miscommunicated with the Chileans. Why is that?
I am a deep undercover Chilean spy, sent here to observe nefarious American right-wing Internet people, to learn of their ways. Thanks for blowing my cover.
If you would read all my posts, you would see that I do NOT simply give the benefit of the doubt to the Chilenos--see post 873, for example. I'm saying we don't know exactly what happened.
I'm going by what was reported in the Chilean news article I posted earlier, and by what the reporters were saying during the video, that there was one entrance for leaders, and another for everyone else, and that the security was arranged and agreed upon ahead of time. Right now, all we have are Chilean versions of the story; no details are coming out on our side of the story.
You're right. The President thought that agent should be allowed to come through. Fine. Did W go bring the agent through because he was supposed to always be by the President's side? Or, did he bring him in in order to defuse the altercation in the doorway? I DON'T KNOW. Neither do you.
Frankly, I'm tired of dicussing this, and I'm just plain tired. Time for bed. There was a screw up, I'm not sure if the President was put in any danger, and I hope not. As FairOpinion said, I hope nothing like this ever happens again.
Good night all.