chasfh Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago From the article: It does not take a security expert to unravel the layers of failure that happened at a Washington, D.C. hotel on Saturday night. How on earth could someone with a disassembled long gun check into a room at a hotel where the president was going to speak? I can answer that: Nobody even looked at my luggage on Friday afternoon. Worse, my colleague arrived on Saturday at 5 p.m. Nobody looked at his luggage either: No magnometers, no hand checks, no I.D. checks. Nothing. How on earth could that person get downstairs and assemble a long gun? I can answer that too. I moved up and down from Floor 10 all day. Nobody ever stopped me and asked me anything. I have never shown my I.D., except to the clerk who checked me in; I have never been searched or frisked when I checked in, or moved in and out of the hotel. To get down from my room to the dinner, I simply flashed my ticket. It could have been a photocopy. The only time I went past a checkpoint was at the same magnetometers that Cole Allen, 31, sprinted past with his gun. Another colleague was outside; I texted them a copy of their ticket. That allowed them to get into the hotel as far as those same magnetometers, entirely unchecked. How on earth could that be considered safe? And how could agents not have realized, after they knew who Cole Allen was, that the gunman had been a hotel guest, and that even after he had been neutralized, that other people might be in danger? How could it take three hours—yes, three hours—to wonder if the bomb squad should come round? The Washington Hilton has seen the attempted assassination of a president before. I walked past the plaque commemorating that spot a few hours before the shooting. I didn’t expect that I would be living through history again, in the room beside 10235. 🤔🤨 Quote
Tigermojo Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago Probably shouldn't let Iran know the entire administration will be in the same room within the next 30 days. Quote
mtutiger Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago (edited) 4 hours ago, pfife said: Lol at people who think this absolute **** annual event would/should be held, let alone held at the white house in a new ballroom Plot totally lost Don't know if it should be held either, but in terms of the impact it makes outside the Beltway chattering class, it's a non entity Tangentially, this tweet from Dylan Byers kinda makes the point better than I ever could... For the President and these journalists, this event (both the dinner and the shooting) was a big deal. To average people? WGAF, playoff hockey is on. Edited 1 hour ago by mtutiger Quote
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