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What!?

I just got word from ZATZ Publishing that a top Mexican press person was caught stealing BlackBerries from the White House during a meeting between Bush and Canadian and Mexican leaders.

Today, Fox News reported that Rafael Quintero Curiel, lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation was caught stealing six or seven BlackBerry devices belonging to White House staffers who were attending meetings between U.S. President George W. Bush and Canadian and Mexican leaders in New Orleans this week. Unfortunately, Quintero Curiel was caught after the devices had been in his possession for some time.

You've got to be kidding me!

I wonder what the going rate for a BlackBerry is in Mexico these days.

There is some concern, of course, as to the amount of information the BlackBerries may have contained.

"That's the equivalent in strategic U.S. government information of about 28,000 printed pages of data, or seven complete sets of all seven Harry Potter novels. And that's per BlackBerry. Given today's incident, that's seven times seven complete sets of all seven Harry Potter novels. Scared yet?"

 Great. Why couldn't it have been the Canadians?