Thursday, April 9, 2009
A Truth Where Maybe a Little White Lie Wouldn't Have Hurt
The Secret Service announced that the location of Obama's initial meeting with Calderón has been changed from the Campo Marte to Los Pinos because of security concerns. I don't know if announcing the security-mandated changes to the presidential agenda is standard practice, but it doesn't seem like it should be, or needs to be. With Mexico as defensive as can be because of American comments about its insecurity, would it have killed the Secret Service to call it a logistical conflict, or to simply make no announcement about it?
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Who said, "The cover-up is worse than the trangression?"
Thing is, I'm not sure that the secret service is capable of keeping the real reason under wraps. Having it leak out could be much worse than just saying the reason and moving on, no?
That's a fair point, and lying about something so simple is by and large a bad idea. At the same time, it doesn't seem like an announcement had to be made at all. It wasn't like it was well known that they were going to Campo Marte, so I dont think hordes of reporters were going to be on the Secret Service when they didn't meet there for the first time.
Whatever the case, it is an issue of relatively minor concern.
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