Security blunder in Canberra - Obama visit details stored in old van

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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, 2011

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 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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