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he seems to be gesturing with authority
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signing to keep pace with the speaker
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"side by side, dreaming the same dream"
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" Reporter: but this sign language
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interpreter at Nelson Mandela's
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memorial service was a fake, according to
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the deaf federation of south Africa
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They claim he's had no formal training
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the signs he's making are notTused in south Africa
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signs language, and he never used
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facial expressions, a key part of signing
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The federations says that there are established signs
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for famous people in south America
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-Reporter "Formal president, Thabo Mbeki..."
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But one expert says the signed name
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for Mbeki never appeared
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The deaf community in south Africa is outraged
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"Because he's a fake interpreter and he is
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just been signing arbitrary signs"
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A deaf member of south Africa's parliament
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tweeted during the ceremony:
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"He's just making up, get him out of TV sight"
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That lawmaker is an alum of
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this place, Gallaudet University in
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Washington, the world's only liberate arts
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college for the hard of hearing
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Melanie Metzger says she doesn't know
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south Africa sign language, but there are
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universal indications of something wrong here.
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"you see the repetitive movements here and here,
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There's a repeated gesture, but the speaker
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is not repeating the spoken message
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so you can see just by that the
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interpretation is not accurately equivalent
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Reporter: " if this man was a fake,
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was he a security risk?
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He stood inches from president Obama
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and other world leaders.
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The white house seemed uncomfortable talking about it
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"I would refer to the south African government
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about who that person was and what their responsibilities were
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Reporter: "Who is he? It's a mistery
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The south African government won't comment
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saying it's investigating
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Former secret service agent, Larry Johnson says the host
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organization provides names of everyone
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in the inner parameter to the secret service
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48 hours in advance so, names, backgrounds
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can be checked but
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"Being bad at your job is not a concern of the secret service,
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The concerns are, is he someone that shouldn't be there because
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he has bad intentions. he is known the law enforcement,he is a security risk.
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Johnson says iy looks to him like those red flags did not
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show up in the background. So did the secret service vet him?
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The agency tells us that agreed-upon security measures
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between the secret service and south african security officials
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were in place during the ceremony
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The secret service says that the host organizing the commitee was
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responsible for the selection of the interpreters
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Wolf, as we told you, the south African government for the
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moment not commiting their investigations
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There are reports, there are plenty of them,
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this man has been observed doing this elsewhere in the past.
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That's right, The Guardian newspaper says that
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members of south Africa's deaf community
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have raised concerns before about this interpreter
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he's apparently been used that sum of stages
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by the african national congress
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now the ANC has told us they have used
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him in the past but they didn not hire him for this
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