Posted on 05/10/2006 7:59:24 AM PDT by TomGuy
It appears to be a White House staff schedule for the President's trip to Florida Tuesday. And a sanitation worker was alarmed to find in the trash long hours before Mr. Bush left for his trip.
It's the kind of thing you would expect would be shredded or burned, not thrown in the garbage. Randy Hopkins could not believe what he was seeing.
There on the floor next to a big trash truck was a thick sheaf of papers with nearly every detail of the President's voyage.
“I saw locations and names and places where the President was going to be. I knew it was important. And it shouldn't have been in a trash hole like this,” he said.
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The documents details the exact arrival and departure time for Air Force One, Marine One and the back up choppers, Nighthawk 2 and Three.
It lists every passenger on board each aircraft, from the President to military attaché with nuclear football. It offers the order of vehicles in the President's motorcade.
(Excerpt) Read more at wusatv9.com ...
I also want to know more about the exact location where it was found. There's always the chance that this could be the work of a WH mole, but I doubt it. This sounds like sheer incompetence. The type of thing that someone should lose a job over. But it needs to be thoroughly investigated, as I assume it will be.
Most likely incompetence.
The DUmmy move would have been to turn it over to Bagdad Jim McDermott...hmmm maybe Rove planted it there. 8>)
Sharpening my pencil, reflecting on Dashell Hammett:
The tall muscularly framed man in the black fedora, quickly returned to the restaurant he and his cold calculating companions had left only moments before. His eyes, as cold blue as glacier ice, met mine. I froze, the steam from the plate of Veal Cordon Blue, wafting between us. He came straight for me. I knew I was done, it was over. I quickly set the plate down and before he could speak:
'Your here for the papers of transit?'
His eyes saw right through me, he need not speak.
I handed him the papers and he quickly left me standing their in the now quieted restaurant. The silence was soon broken:
"Hey, what the hell is this? I ordered the Scallopine?"
LOL! That's pretty much how it went down. he just looked at me and I knew what he was there for.
Well, it could happen! :^
Tony's first "gaggle" is this Friday, first briefing next Monday.
Unfortunately that's too true. And what better place than Florida, where his brother is the guv?
However, people who are responsible enough to consistently USE the shredders for sensitive material (or even to distinguish sensitive material from junk mail in the first place) cost a lot more than $20.
Could've been planted as part of an investigation into possible terrorism?
How do we know this is not a document given to the media and *they* planted it?
Monday evening my husband and I heard ahd saw a military jet buzzing around, which is unusual. I'm sure wasn't as low as it seemed, but it sounded like it was going to land on the house! Found out yesterday that the President was in town, so I guess that was what that was about.
susie
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