Mexican official caught stealing White House Blackberries, invokes diplomatic immunity

Michelle Malkin.com ^ | 4/24/08 | Michelle Malkin

[pissant]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

For a minute I thought they were talking about the blackberries you make pies out of.

[Shortcake]

Did our taxes buy those blackberries? If so, he was stealing from We the People of the United States of America - every one of us.

The Whitehouse should bar this man from ever entering this country again. (and his little dog too!)

[ASA Vet]

Blackberries

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Don’t feel bad, I thought the same thing!

[snarks_when_bored]

There was nobody available to guard the table where the Blackberries were placed? Wow.

[KarlInOhio]

At first, Quintero Curiel denied the criminal acts. But when confronted with the tape, he chalked it up to an “accident”–then promptly invoked diplomatic immunity:

Declare him persona non grata and never let him back in the country. Also, the Secret Service post the video on YouTube just for the laughs.

Another article said that between the didn't take them and "oops! it was an accident" he tried to claim that they were the Blackberries of the Mexican officials, not the American ones.

[El Cid]

So did I.
I was thinking, 'What a cheap sunnuvagun' ...
And, 'They must have some pretty tight (and pretty anal) security at the White House if they are guarding their 'blackberries' (...frozen strawberries I could understand - but blackberries?)'.
I keep forgetting a 'Blackberry' is a PDA widget.

Just call me a Luddite.

[SpaceBar]

He was just trying to put food on the table.

[Political Junkie Too]

Diplomatic immunity? The guy was spying.

He probably wanted to read all the emails on the blackberries, if they weren't password protected.

-PJ

[gopheraj]

That is EXACTLY what I thought it was. LOL! Shows my age.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Our government may officially look the other way, but this guy will never get a visa to get into the US again, and I doubt any of his relatives will either. And there will be additional unofficial repercussions if the Mexican government doesn’t fire or greatly demote him.

The Secret Service certainly shouldn’t have left these Blackberries unguarded. They are embarrassed now, and there’s no telling what tricks they have up their sleeves for making this guy regret that he exposed their carelessness.

[Resolute Conservative]

Stealing government things Sandy Burglar won’t steal.

[Shermy]

1. He’s a spy. Did a good job, but got caught. Serving his country.
or
2. He’s a messenger. Team Bush leaks insider info to Mexicans interests in this manner. Slipped up. Makes more sense, why would the Black berries be left out so?

[toddlintown]

They would have worked nicely in the Mexican government’s stolen cars.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

After all, looking the other way at systemic law-breaking by Mexico is the official Bush policy.

Mexicorruption. No wonder 60 percent of citizens (I read some place) wish to leave the government-created cesspool.

[ElkGroveDan]

I can’t believe this isn’t being looked at as espionage. Imagine the information on a high-level official’s blackberry.

[Domandred]

Same here. As I was reading it I was thinking “why in the hell would he put blackberries in his pocket? And what the hell are White House blackberries doing in New Orleans!”

[DBrow]

“There was nobody available to guard the table “

And look what happened- a spy got caught! Naturally we’d never set a trap and bait it with blackberries.

[meandog]

That is EXACTLY what I thought it was. LOL! Shows my age...

LOL, me too! The first image that popped into my mind was the guy illegally picking wild blackberries from a bush out in the WH rose garden or something. I was thinking, what the heck, don't the guards have anything better to do...