1.0 link 159842 <![CDATA[Purple Tunnel Of Doom: Ticketed Inauguration Attendees Shut Out]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/21/purple-tunnel-of-doom-tic_n_159842.html WASHINGTON &mdash; They say Washington's all about access. Still, this was ridiculous.

First, in an episode fast becoming known as "The Purple Tunnel of Doom," thousands of people with coveted tickets at the Capitol were kept out of President Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony and left waiting in a tunnel below the National Mall, with officials blaming unanticipated crowd control problems.

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