I guess my thinking has more to do with Tom Fife’s information about Russia’s interest in Obama before he was even elected to state office. That communist party woman was talking about Obama much earlier than his public career.
Frank Marshall Davis
Tom Fife’s account
I wouldn’t be surprised if they just wanted time alone with Obama or to yank his chain. Diplomatic passport or not.
Or maybe they just wanted to find out what they could from the interior of a military plane, or try to make tension with GW Bush. Hard to say. The article said Lugar had been stopped 2 years earlier also.