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This story seems to have gotten very little coverage in the US press, the author and lack of facts likely the reason. For those who haven't seen the Newsweek article, the most incendiary accusation which other media have picked up
According to a senior former U.S. intelligence operative, a Secret Service agent who was enjoying a moment of solitude in Gore’s bathroom before the Veep arrived heard a metallic scraping sound. “The Secret Service had secured [Gore’s] room in advance and they all left except for one agent, who decided to take a long, slow time on the pot,” the operative recalled for Newsweek. “So the room was all quiet, he was just meditating on his toes, and he hears a noise in the vent. And he sees the vent clips being moved from the inside. And then he sees a guy starting to exit the vent into the room.”Did the agent scramble for his gun? No, the former operative said with a chuckle. “He kind of coughed and the guy went back into the vents.”
The agent knew the "intruder" was Israeli because he was wearing a Mossad t shirt I suppose. And the agent did nothing because that's Secret Service policy dealing with intruders into Vice Presidential quarters. I believe that.
I’m not sure what the least believable part of this guy’s story is. Newsweek. What a joke.
"So the room was all quiet, he was just meditating on his toes, and he hears a noise in the vent. And he sees the vent clips being moved from the inside. And then he sees a guy starting to exit the vent into the room."
Ah yes, the most hackneyed device in cinema action movies, the bathroom vent duct that magically expands to allow adults to crawl on all fours unheard despite the tin timpani effect and undetected. Hidden ceiling and wall spaces more akin to C.S. Lewis' magic wardrobe. And of course Mossad, the KGB, British Secret Service, et al have the complete plans of all the utilities in any given building except for the vast dead end duct plenum with the slowly rotating fan back lit by a light suitable for Hollywood premieres or anti-aircraft artillery.
rats...trapped again.
Reporters should taken some time from their romantic encounters with bathroom mirrors to glance at their surroundings and ponder the paradox of the 12"x12" wall or ceiling registers that hide the tin superhighways behind the walls.
But reality and reporters like opposite poles of a magnet repel one another almost as forcefully as reporters and the sane reading public.
He then immediately rushed out and reported the incident to Newsweek, but without a word to his superiors.