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Security blunder in Canberra - Obama visit details stored in old van
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:20:33 -0600 (CST)
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/you-just-cant-keep-secrets-in-canberra-obama-visit-details-stored-in-old-van/story-e6freuzr-1226196051856 By Steve Lewis and Gemma Jones The Daily Telegraph November 16, 2011SENSITIVE details of US Secret Service agents and preparations for President Barack Obama's visit have been stored in an old van parked at a Canberra hotel.
On the day the President arrives in Canberra, The Daily Telegraph can reveal timesheets detailing travel of US agents and officials have been left in the white Mazda parked at the rear of the Hyatt hotel.
Roads will be closed today, guards were yesterday stationed at aviation fuel terminals at the airport and the President's attack-proof limousine, the Obama-mobile, has already arrived in Canberra. Yet hire car drivers working on the President's visit have been asked to deposit their time sheets in the van, which was unmanned when visited by The Daily Telegraph on Friday.
One driver said they folded up the documents as they were concerned about leaving them unattended in a carpark. Another claimed he was sacked for refusing to send timesheets, showing where a US Secret Service agent from the Presidential Protection Division of the US Department of Homeland Security had been, unaccompanied in a taxi to the hotel carpark.
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