Comments on: Impolitic

By: Pablo Moran

Pablo Moran — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:24:03 +0000

Eso pasa en otro pais,donde se supone se tienen que portar bien,imaginen de lo que son capaces con los pobres mexicanos que gobiernan;Los Mexicanos solo son menos corruptos que los ugandeses,yo soy Mexicano, pero lo juro que lo siento.

By: Jim C

Jim C — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:58:57 +0000

Carlos,

We understand completely. Our politicians have been known to be corrupt from time to time as well.

Jim C

By: xformed

xformed — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:51:31 +0000

- most of us on this site are Americans. We’re used to our politicians and government servants embarrassing us

Can I use that in my rotating quote display?

By: lex

lex — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:39:11 +0000

Don’t worry, Carlos – most of us on this site are Americans. We’re used to our politicians and government servants embarrassing us

By: Carlos Ortega

Carlos Ortega — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:13:35 +0000

Folks:
I’m Mexican and I have to admit that this act represent what is common in most of the government and politic Mexican guys :
To be dishonest and to use a public position for their own benefit.
I don’t know if the intention was to stole the devices or stole the information, and I don’t know if he received an order or acted on his own criteria, in any case the target was to stole something.
In the name of Mexican people I’m really ashamed for this act, please do not think all the Mexican people act in this way…unfortunately our government staff and our politics are the worst group of people that represents our country.

By: Jim C

Jim C — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:50:39 +0000

My guess is that (as said above) this was a hamfisted attempt at espionage… or possibly blackmail. The real question is; for whom?

Was it for the Mexican Government, or for some media organization? Was this guy taking these blackberrys in the hopes of getting some information that could be used in a scoop? Or was he taking them in the hopes of getting some sort of information that the Mexican government could ise against the US?

Either way, even though I agree that we should build “the wall”, this particular incident doesn’t speak either for or against that. This could have happened even if “the wall” was there. This was a Mexican Government official here in an official capacity… not an illegal immigrant.

I do wonder why, if these blackberrys had information that needed to be kept secure, more wasn’t done to keep them secure. Either keep them on your person, or put them in a lock box or safe. Surely the secret service can provide that sort of thing for whitehouse staffers.

Jim C