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Originally Posted by CRad
To go a step further - That one agent surely wasn't the only one with him. Getting that guy out of middle of the Chilean guards should have been done by other agents. You need to remember that I'm still mad at the idiots who bitch about the Prez not going directly back to DC from FL on 9/11.
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Have you seen the tape?
It appears that the Chileans took umbrage at US security following the POTUS around armed, protecting him in their country.
The Chilean security agents let the principals through, then closed to refuse access to any of the Secret Service agents. This may have been planned in advance.
It wasn't "that guy", all of the Secret Service was trying to push their way through the Chilean security agents to the President.
By the time the POTUS got there, tempers were already starting to flare and physical confrontations were beginning, as one Secret Service agent was grabbed and tossed up against the wall by the HN personnel.
I think the President quickly defused what could have been a pretty ugly situation.
IMHO, any future trips to Chile will be off unless all agree to the security ground rules in advance.
TR