The Miami Herald’s Marc A. Caputo is reporting this afternoon that a member of Hillary Clinton’s security team swiped a man’s Galaxy Note II smartphone after he snapped a picture of Clinton onstage at the American Society of Travel Agents conference. The man did get his phone back, but only after security had deleted the photo he’d taken.
Hillary Clinton's security took a Miami man's phone away & deleted his photo of her. http://t.co/KdBTkcY7qg @MarcACaputo
— Anna Phillips (@annamphillips) September 19, 2013
Hillary Clinton's image control: Security swipes man's phone, erases pic of future candidate at Miami speech http://t.co/zxFG4CpxWf
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) September 19, 2013
https://twitter.com/YeaYouRite/status/380763803299745792
@YeaYouRite generally, you can't surreptitiously photograph a nonpublic citizen in a venue where they have a reasonable privacy expectation
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) September 19, 2013
https://twitter.com/YeaYouRite/status/380773124054081536
@YeaYouRite Subjective. Guess: Hillary=public figure. But if guy didn't give up cam, they woulda kicked him out
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) September 19, 2013
https://twitter.com/YeaYouRite/status/380775763756060673
@YeaYouRite just weird. the guy was more shocked than outraged
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) September 19, 2013
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NBC’s Chuck Todd is concerned by the anecdote — primarily because of the “bully” connotations it has for Hillary’s inevitable 2016 run.
Stories like this only invite bad comparisons to the too tightly controlled Clinton '08 campaign. http://t.co/FNy0A9h8t6
— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) September 19, 2013
If Hillary doesn’t want unauthorized photos taken, what difference, at this point, does it make? We have plenty of good ones to last through 2016, like this gem.
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