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Presidential Plans Found In Trash
WUSA 9 News ^ | 5/9/2006 | Bruce Leshan

Posted on 05/10/2006 3:10:08 PM PDT by Muzzle_em

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.

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.

Hopkins works in sanitation. He's an ex-con, and he's worried

(Excerpt) Read more at 13wmaz.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airforceone; alreadyposted5times; lackofsecurity; lapseinsecurity; oops; osama; president; someonesgettingfired; terrorism; trash; travel
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I laughed, but then again, I've seen backstabbing in the workplace so I know that it is possible.


21 posted on 05/10/2006 7:32:06 PM PDT by Muzzle_em (taglines are for sissies)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

I agree with your statement.
We often make jokes here at FR when we are so baffled by something like this. I was horrified when I read this article.


22 posted on 05/10/2006 7:33:32 PM PDT by Muzzle_em (taglines are for sissies)
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To: ovrtaxt

LOL!
True!


23 posted on 05/10/2006 7:36:29 PM PDT by Muzzle_em (taglines are for sissies)
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To: Muzzle_em
"Presidential Plans Found In Trash"

That's where allot of them belong lately.

24 posted on 05/10/2006 7:38:26 PM PDT by KoRn
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To: Muzzle_em

There is something about this story that does not ring true. That said, I would hope the Secret Service would investigate and find out if it was a set up to make Bush look bad not that he needs a set up to look bad as the Harriet Miers fiasco proved.


25 posted on 05/10/2006 7:44:52 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Muzzle_em

I wonder if we will ever find out what happened.


26 posted on 05/10/2006 10:18:26 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: Muzzle_em

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629829/posts
just one of many


27 posted on 05/10/2006 11:19:20 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Where'd all the good people go?)
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