I guarantee that somebody lost their job over this!
According to US and Argentine news sources, President Bush’s daughter had her purse and cell phone stolen while she was dining in a Buenos Aires restaurant. Apparently, thieves took the purse from under a table while Secret Service agents stood guard at a distance.

Argentine police told The Associated Press they had no complaint of any such incident on file, and the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires said it would have no comment. In Washington, the White House, Secret Service and State Department also declined comment.

Of course they did.

The fact that the world’s finest security force stood idly as the President’s daughter was robbed of her belongings by Argentinian thieves is at once embarassing, funny, and scary. Fumbles like these only encourage bigger and meaner thugs to attempt worse crimes under the belief that America is asleep at the wheel.