Bush Aides Fail to Protect the President
10 May 2006 10:23 am by Taylor Marsh
Bolten Fails to Protect the President
UPDATE: Wonkette has the video.
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This is just one of those stories that describes how dangeourous incompetence can be for this country. So far, I'm not too impressed with Josh Bolten.
Isn't the first job of the president's staff to make sure
his own travel plans aren't released to the public? After all, we are in a war.
So, shouldn't the president's plans be kept on a need to know basis?
Evidently, the Secret Service agrees, because they're not claiming this monumental
screw up.
The obvious screams: if the White House can't even be bothered with protecting
the president, how safe do you feel?
How much do you think Osama bin Laden would pay to know exactly when and
where the President was traveling, and who was with him? Turns out, he wouldn't
have had to pay a dime. All he had to do was go through the trash early Tuesday
morning.It appears to be a White House staff schedule for the President's trip to
Florida Tuesday. And a sanitation worker was alarmed to find in the trash
long hours before Mr. Bush left for his trip.(snip)
Hopkins works in sanitation. He's an ex-con, and he's worried about fallout
from talking to us, so he's asked us not to say exactly where he's employed.
But he also felt it was his civic duty to tell somebody about what he'd found.“We're going through a war, and if it would have fell into the wrong
hands at the right time, it would have been something really messy for the
President's sake,” he said.The documents details the exact arrival and departure time for Air Force
One, Marine One and the back up choppers, Nighthawk 2 and Three.It lists every passenger on board each aircraft, from the President to military
attaché with nuclear football. It offers the order of vehicles in the
President's motorcade.We faxed a copy to the Secret Service, which as usual rule declined to say
much, other than insisting that it was a White House staff document, not a
Secret Service document.
