"He said, 'I've been instructed to say that even if you have a ticket, you are not to be admitted into the debate,'" Nader said.
"Even if you have a ticket!" Nader added emphatically.
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"I asked him to repeat it three times," he said.
Reached moments after the debate ended, Janet Brown, executive director of the CPD, said that the debate commission was aware Nader would attempt to enter.
"There were procedures considered" to stop him from doing so, she said.
She would not say what exactly those procedures were.
One Massachusetts State Police officer and one Secret Service agent told The Crimson that security forces had been instructed to keep Nader out.
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