[baseballmom]

I admire his courage, but the President needs to stay out of such things, its potentially dangerous.

I don't know what else he could have done. Studying the video carefully, and from newspaper accounts, this was a deliberate act by the Chileans of separating our W from his USSS agents (there was more than one out front barred from entering).

WaPo and WashTimes said the USSS and Chilean police & security were arguing back and forth all day re: POTUS protection, the USSS taking charge of POTUS security even on foreign soil - and they were half expecting a stunt of some kind.

The Chileans wanted the USSS to enter a side door, with only the heads of state and their spouses entering the front door. This was unacceptable to USSS as it would leave W's back unprotected.

It is unclear to me whether we had agents in place already INSIDE the bldg as POTUS entered. I sure hope so. There are definitely men standing right inside the door watching as our W went into the fray to pull out Trotta - they continued to stand there and did nothing to assist. Were they our USSS or Chilean security or just onlookers? I can't tell.

I'm wondering whether this ongoing argument between security staffs was related to our W and he was aware of the tension. He was certainly aware of his perimeters judging by his actions.Notice towards the end of the video, after exchanging pleasantries with Chilean President and starting to move, that W looks back over his shoulder to make sure Trotta is with him.

Looking at the whole tape and having read all (I think) the newspaper accounts, I think W did the right thing - to ensure his and Laura's protection.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Smells like a set up.

[baseballmom]

ping to a video without voice over

[Search4Truth]

Thanks for the analysis. I must say that I am more than a little angry that Chilean security would interfere with the USSS efforts in protecting our President - the leader of the free world in war time. I hope the President will not be visiting there again anytime soon. Morons.

[Search4Truth]

Related http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1287695/posts

[texasflower]

Thanks for the ping. That is a great video.

I think we did have some agents inside, at least the female agent.

I think the guys just standing there are either Chileans or security people waiting for other leaders. Putin's people or something.

In a video that I watched the other day, they did let in a second agent after the President moved away from the area.

They looked a little shook up.

Did you see that video? It showed much more of the fight outside, even after George and Laura had gone on.

It was scary.

Somewhere I had heard that the President did know about the disagreements. I can't remember where I heard that though.