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Nov 16^th, 2011 at 7:43am

SENSITIVE 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 Obamamobile, 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.

The timesheet detailed suburbs and buildings visited last Tuesday, when the agent went to a Canberra primary school.

It is understood advance work was done at the school but it was not chosen for a visit by President Obama and Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Obama's visit is vital, says White House

Planning for the school visit has been the most closely guarded secret in the President's itinerary.

The timesheets the driver said he refused to send in a taxi showed the Secret Service agent had been to various places President Obama will visit around Canberra.

The driver was sacked in an email and the woman who sent it declined to comment.

The Secret Service agent also declined to comment when contacted on Monday.

"I don't have any comment on that," he said.

A spokesman for the company contracted to drive the US officials around Canberra admitted using the van as a collection point but denied there had been a major security breach.

The US Embassy in Canberra said any questions about presidential security were a matter for the Secret Service.

The President has meetings with Ms Gillard later today ahead of his address to a joint sitting of parliament at 10.15am tomorrow.

He will then visit a primary school with Ms Gillard.

The president is also due to lay a wreath at the Canberra War Memorial.

Mr Obama will spend Friday in Darwin.

its a bit keystone copper'ish... Grin

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Ex Dame Pansi Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 24168	Re: canberra in 2011 Reply #1 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 9:03am lol!!!!
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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: canberra in 2011 Reply #2 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 9:15am you can laugh pansi... I am not looking forward to going out today as half the roads are closed off..what an utter waste of time..dont American Presidents only get killed in America?? do you think booby will stand up in parliament and yell.. "get you Freaking Marines out of Australia"?
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Reply #3 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 9:35am

james
obongo arrives today in aus

coral sea
imagine if oingo boingo was arriving instead

james
that'd be even better
hes on his way now
the magic negro
descending from the heavens
i should drive down to canberra

coral sea
the negro warlock
why would you go to canberra

james
thats where hes going

james
maybe he will cast a spell giving me access to my own djinn

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chicken_lipsforme Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7090 Townsville NQ Gender:	Re: canberra in 2011 Reply #4 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 10:28am Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 9:03am: lol!!!! http://conservativenewjersey.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/keystone-cops1.jpg That's them! I've said it all along. That's Labor's front bench.
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Maqqa Gold Member Offline 14% - that low?! Posts: 16000	Re: canberra in 2011 Reply #5 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 10:29am When Labor stuffs up to the tune of billions or security issues - lefties laughs it off as something minor So we've seen them laughing for awhile now But when the LIBs stuffs up - they think the world is about to come to an end
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Reply #6 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 10:33am

chicken_lipsforme wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 10:28am:

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 9:03am:

lol!!!!

http://conservativenewjersey.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/keystone-cops1.jpg

That's them!
I've said it all along.
That's Labor's front bench. Grin

LOL!!!

Are you sure?

The bloke on the right looks a bit Joe Hockeyish or

is it Anthony Albanese?

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Reply #7 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 10:37am

Maqqa wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 10:29am:

When Labor stuffs up to the tune of billions or security issues - lefties laughs it off as something minor

So we've seen them laughing for awhile now

But when the LIBs stuffs up - they think the world is about to come to an end

I think the tried and true Howard excuse is applicable here - some lower level minion always stuffed up. It was never Howard's fault. Same excuse still applies maccaw. Suck it up petal.

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Reply #8 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 12:34pm

Maqqa wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 10:29am:

When Labor stuffs up to the tune of billions or security issues - lefties laughs it off as something minor

So we've seen them laughing for awhile now

But when the LIBs stuffs up - they think the world is about to come to an end

when Labor stuffs up... they blame someone else... silly!

all the wasted money was the fault of the GFC...

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Reply #9 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 12:39pm

Maqqa wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 10:29am:

When Labor stuffs up to the tune of billions or security issues - lefties laughs it off as something minor

So we've seen them laughing for awhile now

But when the LIBs stuffs up - they think the world is about to come to an end

It wasn't all that big a stuff up really...

It was (apparently) a list of a number of places that the US Embassy officials had been driven to, while deciding were and which way Pres Obama would go....Good luck figuring out exactly which places (off the whole list) were chosen....

Mind you...being diplomats.....at least some of the address are probably either brothels, or g/f places...

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Reply #10 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 12:43pm

Is Obama there yet cods?

Watch him, he's sniffing out whether Swanny is telling the truth about our thriving economy, he's after countries with riches. America is set to make hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts to rebuild Libya, that's besides the oil.

That's what they do, blow the sh1te out of a wealthy country, put their main man in the boss's seat and win the resource contracts and the re-build contracts. It's one way to get out of debt.

I wish Swanny would stop shooting his mouth off

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Reply #11 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 12:58pm

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 12:43pm:

Is Obama there yet cods?

Watch him, he's sniffing out whether Swanny is telling the truth about our thriving economy, he's after countries with riches. America is set to make hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts to rebuild Libya, that's besides the oil.

That's what they do, blow the sh1te out of a wealthy country, put their main man in the boss's seat and win the resource contracts and the re-build contracts. It's one way to get out of debt.

And ya can't blame Libya on GWB. No, Libya was all the work of Barack 'nobel peace prize' Obama.

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Reply #12 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 1:18pm

... wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 12:58pm:

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 12:43pm:

Is Obama there yet cods?

Watch him, he's sniffing out whether Swanny is telling the truth about our thriving economy, he's after countries with riches. America is set to make hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts to rebuild Libya, that's besides the oil.

That's what they do, blow the sh1te out of a wealthy country, put their main man in the boss's seat and win the resource contracts and the re-build contracts. It's one way to get out of debt.

And ya can't blame Libya on GWB. No, Libya was all the work of Barack 'nobel peace prize' Obama.

I must have missed all the yankee troops on the streets of Libya.

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Reply #13 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 1:30pm

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 12:43pm:

Is Obama there yet cods?

Watch him, he's sniffing out whether Swanny is telling the truth about our thriving economy, he's after countries with riches. America is set to make hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts to rebuild Libya, that's besides the oil.

That's what they do, blow the sh1te out of a wealthy country, put their main man in the boss's seat and win the resource contracts and the re-build contracts. It's one way to get out of debt.

I wish Swanny would stop shooting his mouth off

not sure pansi...I am thinking of getting my bedroll out and going down with my tin cup... I cant believ swanny hasnt told the N.T that australia doesn have any homeless anymore.. since ruddles got in.

HOMELESS people are being moved away from Darwin's city centre ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit tomorrow.
The traditional land owners, the Larrakia people, have been asked to encourage the homeless to leave places on the president's program.

Larrakia Nation chief executive Ilana Eldridge says the "gentle suggestion" has come from the Northern Territory government.

"When we go in, people know it is time to move, otherwise the cops will come in heavy-handed later," Ms Eldridge said.

"We take them to another place where they will be comfortable and safe and then in a few days time they will drift back."

About 2000 people are thought to be homeless in the Darwin region each night, with 20 to 30 staying along The Esplanade, where Mr Obama will travel, Ms Eldridge said.

It's estimated about 95 per cent of Darwin's homeless population are of Aboriginal descent.

NT Chief Minister Paul Henderson says Mr Obama's security is paramount and there will be exclusion zones around where he is travelling.

"This is one of the facts of life when the president comes to town," Mr Henderson told ABC radio.

"That happens everywhere in the world, not just here in Darwin."

There have been reported sightings in recent days of US secret service personnel in town making arrangements ahead of the visit.

Meanwhile, the NT government has confirmed a Tiwi artwork by artist Jean Baptiste Apuatimi will be given to Mr Obama to mark his visit.

The government says the painting was chosen because of the Tiwi Islanders' connection to the bombing of Darwin.

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Reply #14 - Nov 16^th, 2011 at 1:30pm

skippy. wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 1:18pm:

... wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 12:58pm:

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Nov 16^th, 2011 at 12:43pm:

Is Obama there yet cods?

Watch him, he's sniffing out whether Swanny is telling the truth about our thriving economy, he's after countries with riches. America is set to make hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts to rebuild Libya, that's besides the oil.

That's what they do, blow the sh1te out of a wealthy country, put their main man in the boss's seat and win the resource contracts and the re-build contracts. It's one way to get out of debt.

And ya can't blame Libya on GWB. No, Libya was all the work of Barack 'nobel peace prize' Obama.

I must have missed all the yankee troops on the streets of Libya.

So it doesn't matter if he bombs the poo out of them - just so long as theres no troops on the ground?

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