Posted on 05/10/2006 10:57:52 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
(CBS News) WASHINGTON A public sanitation worker in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday found a thick stack of papers with nearly every detail of President Bush's trip to Florida on the floor next to a big trash truck.
The documents offer the exact arrival and departure time for Air Force One, Marine One and the back up choppers, Nighthawk 2 and 3, as Washington CBS affiliate WUSA-TV first reported.
The documents also list every passenger on board each aircraft, from President Bush to the military attaché with the nuclear football. A spokesman traveling with Mr. Bush in Florida confirms the report and says officials are still trying to learn more about the papers, CBS News White House correspondent Peter Maer reports.
Sanitation worker Randy Hopkins told WUSA-TV reporter Bruce Leshan that he could not believe what he was seeing when he discovered the presidential schedule.
"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," Hopkins said.
The documents also offer the order of vehicles in the President's motorcade, Leshan notes.
Hopkins is an ex-con working in sanitation, and said he felt it was his civic duty to tell somebody about what he'd found, he told WUSA-TV.
"We're going through a war, and if it would have fell into the wrong hands at the right time, it would have been something really messy for the president's sake," Hopkins said.
WUSA faxed a copy of the document to the Secret Service, which told the station that it was a White House staff document, not a Secret Service document.
And while it is marked "official," the Secret Service says the document is not classified, Leshan reports.
Typically certain members of the White House staff receive the exact details of the president's schedule, Maer notes, and reporters are given a broader outline that is always marked "For planning purposes only, not for publication or broadcast."
Many White House offices have "burn bags" that are used to discard sensitive documents, Maer adds.
"I drop everything in the bag at the end of the day," an official told CBS News.
It appears this one made it into the general trash.
Some one pooched it
Of course ,the way bureaucracy works, in the end nobody at all in the Executive Branch will be found guilty or negligent of anything; and the sanitation worker will be blamed for handling sensitive documents and fined. . .
A drop for a spy?
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| Posted by TomGuy On News/Activism ^ 05/10/2006 10:59:24 AM EDT · 31 replies · 1,044+ views WUSATV9.com ^ | May 9, 2006 | Bruce Leshan 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... |
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| Posted by PghBaldy On Bloggers & Personal ^ 05/10/2006 12:15:09 AM EDT · 17 replies · 290+ views WUSA TV ^ | May 9 | Bruce Leshan How much do you think Osama bin Laden would pay to know exactly when and where the President was traveling, and who was with him? Turns out, he wouldn't have had to pay a dime. All he had to do was go through the trash early Tuesday morning. 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. |
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If they had searched the trash truck, I'm certain they would have unearthed Sandy Burglar.
Sorry about that. Mods, please delete
lol
All copies should be numbered so that they can be traced back to whomever was in possession of them. Then the owner should be jailed.
Hopkins is an ex-con working in sanitation, and said he felt it was his civic duty to tell somebody about what he'd found, he told WUSA-TV.
"We're going through a war, and if it would have fell into the wrong hands at the right time, it would have been something really messy for the president's sake," Hopkins said.
so he went to the press with his find
I sense this was on purpose. Bush has a mole - a very dangerous mole - working too close to him.
They should have removed the important papers, put fakes back in the trash instead, and waited to see who pulled them out.
On average, only about 400 federal employees are fired for cause per year. In private industry that number would be way over 25,000. IMHO
I understand what you are saying but what's an x-con working a garbage detail gonna do? Knock on the White House door?
They get the same protection the teachers union gets (including privatized Social Security, I might add!)
I guess it never occurred to him to call the White House, huh?
it could also be left there intentionally.
I'm aorry. I searched for it, but everything was acting up (topics, keywords appeared/disappeared)... I didn't mean to post it on Bloggers/Personal, or to post a retread.
It would have been swept under the rug if he had called the White House on it.
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