[blaquebyrd]

"Major failure of the S.S."

I agree from a security standpoint this was a total breakdown of basic personnel protection discipline. Even worse it's caught on tape for the entire world to see. Believe me this security breach will be studied by our enemies. The President walking over to the foreign mob to retrieve his personal bodyguard should be treated as a failure in security that if not remedied could be exploited.

[DTA]

Worth repeating:

I agree from a security standpoint this was a total breakdown of basic personnel protection discipline. Even worse it's caught on tape for the entire world to see. Believe me this security breach will be studied by our enemies. The President walking over to the foreign mob to retrieve his personal bodyguard should be treated as a failure in security that if not remedied could be exploited

I wonder wether anyone studdied the effects of video games on the thought process of those "in the line of fire". Unlike shoot 'em ups, in real life, there is no "start again" after you got killed or your boss got killed.

I am afraid that this episode is only

[SeaBiscuit]

ditto. I hope the USSS is studying this much more intensly than any enemy might.