First Daughter Barbara (Bush) Robbed in Argentina

abc news ^ | 11-21-06 | abc

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First Daughter Barbara Bush had her purse and cell phone stolen as she had dinner in a restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina, even though she was being guarded by a detail of Secret Service agents, according to law enforcement reports made available to ABC News.

It was not the only mishap on the two-week trip to Argentina by Barbara (right) and her twin sister Jenna (left).

A Secret Service agent on the advance detail got into an "altercation" with someone after a night out and was badly beaten, according to the law enforcement reports. The Secret Service said today the incident was an attempted mugging that occurred while the agent was on his own time. The agent is doing fine.

The purse snatching took place on Barbara's first night in town while she was dining in the picturesque San Telmo neighborhood. According to the reports, the Secret Service agents failed to notice the incident.

The Secret Service would not comment on the purse snatching, and the First Lady’s office said they would not comment on any personal trip made by the daughters. There have been recent reports, however, that Jenna Bush has been living and working in Panama as an intern for UNICEF.

[Sam Cree]

Yeah, I meant the originals, from the old TV show. I haven't seen the movie.

These guys.

[monkapotamus]

[elpinta]

Well, some of us 'locals' have a different impression.
Great land, mostly hard-working people, but the corrupt leadership and ever-present slime-types makes a visit a real pain.
I will go out of my way to NOT go there, ever. After visiting many places, B. Aires is right up there with any city in France as far as my personal 'no visit' list.
Oh well, haven't seen the entire US yet, so not a problem.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Meanwhiole, guess which gaggle of mouth-breathing lunatics are celebrating and exchanging high-fives over this...?

[Enterprise]

"Some SS guys are likely going to find themselves working in Montana by month end."

I wonder of there were some female SS personnel there also. If so, they too might stock up on winter clothing.

[EdJay]

I am confused -- I read an interview with the president a while back where he said Jenna was going to be teaching school in Latin America this fall. Now she's interning at UNICEF? A United Nations agency? I am surprised she would work for UNICEF. Surely POTUS and FLOTUS do not approve their daughter working for a United Nations agency. Anyway, how did teaching morph into working for UNICEF, and why on earth would she be in Argentina? With taxpayer-paid security, too.

I am all in favor of the Presidentt's daughters having bodyguards & I do not mind paying taxes for them to have bodyguards (although I would hope they are more competent than these guys seem to have been) but I am not sure I want to pay for bodyguards for junkets abroad esp. to highly unsafe countries where so many people hate their dad. How about they stay home where it will be easier to provide security for them? There are plenty of places where they can have fun right here in the good ole USA.

[Enterprise]

"If a lowly purse snatcher can get by the Secret Service..."

The SS people probably have degrees in philosophy and sociology. The crook has a degree in street smarts.

[monkapotamus]

[madison10]

I don't even want to know. Cockroaches one and all.

[ArmstedFragg]

They got a little inventive with the headline. Unless it was taken from her person, it's a theft, not a robbery.

[crazyhorse691]

Both twins are in Argentina, though no one will say why...

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The DUmba** moonbats discussed this quite logically and rationally about a week before the election and came up with the conclusion that the daughters were looking for a place that would grant Bush and rest of the neocons asylum from the Crimes Against Humanity Trials that were going to start before the holidays...The proof was that one daughter was in S.America and nobody had seen the other in days. I am still chuckling over this one.

[SkyPilot]

Hope Barbara is OK.

[Enterprise]

The President has his top man on this already.

[Natchez Hawk]

PHEEWWW!

The headline makes you for the worst...

Especially with Jenna in Panama you can't help but be startled and be thankful she's unharmed.

[Natchez Hawk]

...some real SS men in Argentina...

Funny, they all look so similar...it's as if...

[fanfan]

Ding, ding, ding.....We have a winner.......

And if they didn't notice a purse-snatching, they probably wouldn't have noticed someone dropping off a not-so-innocent little "momento" of the evening, either.

[SevenofNine]

OMG that old school did Jaws from James Bond movie appear on one season of Wild Wild West I THINK SO LOL!