Mitt Romney was feeling good after Monday night's debate with six other Republican presidential candidates--so good he was talking like a president.

"I'll probably be back in four years," the former Massachusetts governor, and New Hampshire GOP front-runner, said as he toured the Benson Lumber & Hardware Co. in Derry, New Hampshire Tuesday.

"Only this time it will be a large group," he vowed, "and I will probably have Secret Service."

White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers will not talk to a Congressional committee investigating the security breach when a Virginia couple crashed a State Dinner last month, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.

"Separation of powers," Gibbs said. "Staff here don't go to testify" before Congress.

Gibbs brushed aside questions about whether Rogers bore some of the blame because she didn't have a staffer at the gate when the couple insisted they had been invited and were waved though by the Secret Service.

"The first family is quite pleased with her performance," Gibbs said.

He added that the White House on Tuesday changed  its policy, returning to the Bush-era poliocy of having an aide from the Social Sectetary's office at the gate to double check guests during every social function. The change was ordered by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Gibbs said.

Several Turkish diplomats were physically restrained by U.S. Secret Service agents when they tried to enter a tent holding President Obama’s limo and could not understand yelled orders to stop.

The fracas Tuesday night happened just outside the New York hotel where Obama was speaking at former President Bill Clinton’s Clinton Global Initiative meeting.

As Clinton was walking Obama out to his limo, a small horde of agents and police got into a shouting match with some people at one corner of the tent where the presidential limo was waiting.

“A foreign delegation got confused and were trying to enter the president's departure tent and didn't understand the verbal instructions being given,” Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said.
“They had to be physically restrained."

Donovan said he did not think the diplomats, identified as Turkish by White House pool reporter Jon Ward of the Washington Times, made it into the tent. They were not detained.

"Our feeling is the incident was exacerbated by a language barrier,” Donovan added.

Vice President Joe Biden has landed in Baghdad on a surprise visit to Iraq.

The White House reports that Biden will meet with President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Ayad al-Samarrai, Sspeaker of the Council of Reprsentatives.

Biden will stress anew the U.S. commitment to carry out President Obama's pledge to draw down U.S. troops.

His two-day trip is his second visit to Iraq this year, his first since taking office as vice president.

If President Barack Obama goes up strong for a layup on the basketball court, does the opposing player:

A) Check to see if the Secret Service agent on the sidelines has a menacing look and an itchy trigger finger?

B) Foul Obama so hard that he sees as many stars as there are on the American flag?

C) Part the lane the way Moses parted the Red Sea and let Obama safely score his points?

Obama's basketball prowess came under humorous attack at Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner. Comedian Wanda Sykes suggested that the president shouldn't beat his chest about his basketball abilities.

"I bet you think your game is really nice right now, don't you?" Sykes told Obama. "Yeah, you really think you got good moves. C'mon, nobody's going to give the president a hard foul with the Secret Service standing there."

Obama isn't the first basketball-playing politician, just the highest-ranking one. Former New York Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo was a basketball fiend during his years in Albany. He played one-on-one  or three-on-three against all comers, and organized a statehouse basketball league. 

Cuomo believes that Obama is probably playinig old-school ball where the general rule is if there's no blood, there's no foul. Obama played pick-up Saturday at a downtown Washington, D.C., YMCA. The president came out unscathed, but his personal assistant, Reggie Love, sported a band-aid on his chin and muttered that he might need stitches. No word on how Love got injured.

 "It's hard to play basketball, play all out, without hitting a guy the way you didn't want to hit him," Cuomo said. "I suspect a guy like Obama, if he's playing five-on-five, he strikes me as a real player who wants to play a real game."

Cuomo said he kept it real when he played as governor, recounting hard fouls and fist fights - even against a team of State Police officers. "We kept it in the gym," he said.

"I got hit between the nose and top of the lip, loosened two teeth in front four days before I had to give the speech to nominate Bill Clinton at the Democratic convention at Madison Square Garden," Cuomo said. "I gave the whole speech scared to death that I was going to lose teeth in the Garden."

    A liberal-leaning watchdog group Tuesday seized on President Barack Obama's twin executive orders proclaiming a new era in government openness to demand the release of a broad spectrum of secret Bush administration documents.

     "Signing an executive order is one thing; actually releasing documents is another,'' said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "This the perfect opportunity for the Obama administration to back up its words with concrete action."

    Obama signed the executive orders signaling a new era in government openness and accountability on his first day in office. In a press release Tuesday, the start of his second week as president, Crew asked him to carry out his own orders by releasing these records that the Bush administration withheld from the public:

1. Justice Department documents related to the interview of former Vice President Cheney provided to the FBI as part of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation into the leak of former CIA official Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert identity -- an inquiry that led to the conviction of Cheney Chief of Staff Lewis Libby.
2. Secret Service records of White House visitors to help remove the veil of secrecy that currently surrounds the White House.
3. White House documents relating to the Bush administration's alleged failure for years to trace the mysterious disappearance of millions of emails from White House servers even despite an internal report confirming they were missing.
4. White House documents that explain why the Bush administration refused to implement an effective electronic record keeping system in the face of evidence that its current system was an abysmal failure, notwithstanding the development of two other workable systems.
5. White House documents requested by Congress that might explain the full role of President Bush and his White House aides in the firings of nine U.S. attorneys, whose ousters triggered a smajor candal over politicization of the Justice Department.
6. Department of Homeland Security documents that might explain why the Bush administration decided to bypass property of Ray L. Hunt, a major contributor to the Bush presidential library, in proceeding with plans to build a 700-mile fence along the border between the United States and Mexico.
7. All documents of the White House Council on Environmental Quality that might show the extent to which the Bush administration sought to distort scientific conclusions, warning, and predictions on climate change.