Argh. Caught Me On Video.

[Dale Seago]

So Tuesday night last week was a shindig with the President of Israel, Shimon Peres; the Governor of California; Mayor of San Francisco; and many other political and industrial movers and shakers at my workplace, where I'm the Director of Security. And we had only 19 days from notification that it was a "go" to the event itself in order to do all the coordinating to make it happen. My own part of it was between the Israeli Consulate, Shin Bet dignitary protection, US Secret Service, SFPD, and our staff and sponsoring organizations.

All went off pretty well, though, and we also streamed it live (and archived it) for those who couldn't be there (we could only physically handle about 2,000). I was only occasionally in the main sanctuary where the presidential address was given (though at one point I was close enough to the president to literally reach out and touch him. . .and was also cleared for that level of proximity); spent most of my time checking out everything from the protestors at the sole checkpoint into the security zone, a bit over a block out, to the building interior. But to my own surprise I did end up with a cameo appearance before the president came on.

In the archived video, you can see me come in from the right about 55 seconds into it, for about half a minute:

http://www.shimonperesemanuelsf.org/