Guess Who Came To The Wedding?

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates

By Jon Rutter
Section: B
Page: B1
Sunday News (Lancaster, PA)
Published: May 3, 2009

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - jrutter@lnpnews.com "Uncle Bob" slipped quietly into the Manheim Township
suburbs last weekend.
Uncle Bob is better known as U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
He came to town Saturday, April 25, for a family wedding, said Monsignor Richard A. Youtz, who performed the
honors.
Gates arrived at St. John Neumann Catholic Church shortly before the 2:30 p.m. ceremony for Bryant Wilkie and
Vanessa Dziuba, according to Youtz.
The newlyweds live in Washington state, Youtz noted, but the wedding was held here because Dziuba and her
family are local.
Gates is Wilkie's uncle by marriage, the monsignor added.
"Very pleasant guy. I had never met him before. I went up to him after the wedding and said 'Oh, you're the
famous Uncle Bob.' He said, 'No I'm the infamous Uncle Bob.' "
Youtz said the white-haired, 65-year-old Gates is distinguished looking and not as tall as Youtz expected.
Gates is the single Cabinet holdover from the George W. Bush administration.
A former CIA director who entered the intelligence field during the Lyndon B. Johnson years, the secretary has
been called canny and low-key.
His visit to the church at 601 E. Delp Road reinforced his low-profile dossier.
Youtz said he learned that Gates and his wife, Becky, would attend the wedding only when a trio of very polite,
very discreet security agents showed up at the church the Thursday before.
The agents wanted to size up the site and see which doors were kept locked and which ones were not, Youtz
said.
"They were very nice young men. They just wanted to look at the compound here, as they called it. It was just a
routine thing for them. ... They wanted us to know who they were so we were not taken off guard by the whole
thing."
He said he met Mrs. Gates - Wilkie's aunt - at the Friday night wedding rehearsal.
A wedding reception for about 150 people was held April 25 at Best Western Eden Resort & Suites, 222 Eden
Road, according to General Manager Mark Clossey.
The Pentagon chief was there, Clossey said. "He had a drink in Garfield's and attended the [reception] and left
shortly thereafter."
The celebration was "on the quiet side," Clossey said, and was intended to focus fanfare on the couple rather
than on Gates.
Government agents checked out the premises several days before the reception, he added.
Other details about the operation remain obscure.
While Youtz said he thought Gates was driven in by car, a civilian source reported "Secret Service" agents at
Lancaster Airport last weekend.
Airport Director David Eberly confirmed that there were a couple of large aircraft, including a military jet, parked
on the tarmac that Saturday.
However, he said, "I don't know who was on it. I didn't see any Secret Service," added Eberly, who said the

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agency usually notifies him when it enters the airport. "If they were there, they were incognito."
But they weren't there, according to U.S. Secret Service spokesman Darrin Blackford. (There were agents
elsewhere in Pennsylvania at the time, Blackford added. They were protecting Jordanian King Abdullah II while
he was on a motorcycle trip.)
A local government official who spoke on condition of anonymity said U.S. Army Criminal Investigation
Command, or CID, personnel could have been mistaken for Secret Service agents.
"They probably talk into their wrists" too, the official said of the Army operatives.
CID spokesman Jeffrey Castro confirmed that the agency provides security for Gates. But Castro said he could
not comment on whether Gates or any CID agents were here last weekend.
According to its Web site, the U.S. Army Protective Services Battalion, under the CID in Fort Belvoir, Va.,
watches over key officials in the Department of Defense and the Army.
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CLOSED,HABEAS,A/R

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Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Allentown)
CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 5:14-cv-02559-PD

LAMBERT v. BISSONETTE et al
Assigned to: HONORABLE PAUL S. DIAMOND
Cause: 28:2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (State)

Date Filed: 05/02/2014

Date Terminated: 05/22/2014
Jury Demand: None
Nature of Suit: 530 Habeas Corpus:
(General)
Jurisdiction: Federal Question

Petitioner
LISA MICHELLE LAMBERT

represented by JEREMY H.G. IBRAHIM

LAW OFFICES OF JEREMY H.
GONZALEZ IBRAHIM
P.O. BOX 1025
CHADDS FORD, PA 19317
215-568-1943
Email: jeremyibrahim.esq@verizon.net
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V.
Respondent
LYNN BISSONETTE
SUPERINTENDENT,
MCI-FRAMINGHAM
Respondent
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF
LANCASTER COUNTY,
PENNSYLVANIA
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THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
PENNSYLVANIA
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Movant
STANLEY J. CATERBONE
AND ADVANCED MEDIA GROUP

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PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS (Filing fee $ 5 receipt number

100526.), filed by LISA MICHELLE LAMBERT. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover
Sheet)(ks, ) (Entered: 05/05/2014)

05/22/2014

CJA 20 APPIONTMENT OF ATTORNEY JEREMY H.G. IBRAHIM for LISA

MICHELLE LAMBERT. SIGNED BY HONORABLE PAUL S. DIAMOND ON
5/22/14. 5/22/14 ENTERED AND COPIES E-MAILED.(jpd) (Entered:
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ORDER THAT JEREMY IBRAHIM, ESQ., IS APPOINTED AS PETITIONER'S

COUNSEL. ACCORDINGLY HER HABEAS PETITION IS DISMISSED
WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO FILE A COUNSELED
MOTION FOR RELIEF. COUNSEL SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ADDRESS
WHETHER PETITIONER MUST SEEK PERMISSION FROM THE COURT OF
APPEALS BEFORE FILING A SECOND OR SUCCESSIVE HABEAS
PETITION. SIGNED BY HONORABLE PAUL S. DIAMOND ON 5/22/14.
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