Posted on 11/28/2009 6:15:30 PM PST by kristinn
They can vet this guy, but not a couple of reality show wanna be's? This really should be dubbed Balloon Boy Redux.
Man Bypassed Inauguration Security
By Christopher Newton
Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2001; 12:44 a.m. EST
WASHINGTON –– Just after President Bush was inaugurated, a man without any security clearance bypassed three security checkpoints and shook Bush's hand – an escapade he pulled at President Clinton's second inauguration, authorities said.
The man's success at gaining access to Bush startled Secret Service agents and U.S. Capitol Police officers because security was intensified in preparation for large groups of protesters.
Capitol Police refused to give details except to say that the trespasser was unarmed and had been taken through a metal detector.
"There was an individual who had an unscheduled handshake with the President," Lt. Dan Nichols, a spokesman for the Capitol Police, said Tuesday night. "It was noticed immediately and he was removed."
The Washington Post, which first reported the incident in its Wednesday editions, said the man had a standing-room ticket for Saturday's swearing-in ceremony but somehow made it into the VIP section and into the Capitol.
The man who shook Bush's hand, was the same man who bypassed security after Clinton's inauguration in 1997, a police official said.
Nichols said the incident will be considered during a review of security that occurs after every inauguration.
The man was never under arrest.
"He did not break any laws and therefore, there was no basis to arrest him," Nichols said. "There is no law against shaking the president's hand."
The trespasser exploits during the Clinton inauguration had not been forgotten by those planning security for Bush. He was a constant subject of discussion by security officials before Bush's inauguration, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Secret Service officials even showed a videotape of the man shaking Clinton's hand to those handling security on Inauguration Day, the official said. The tape shows the trespasser approaching someone who had clearance to be near Clinton. The trespasser struck up a conversation with the cleared individual and shadowed him as he walked past a security checkpoint.
Comme des Garcons = like the boys
Look lik’d she sew de aprong to de dress. An’ where de zipper on it anyway? An’ de color? Shit. A wet grain sack be prettier “n” dat. Tain’ voodoo, it poopoo.
Nice work, kristinn - as usual.
socialite = “vapid scheming social climber”
“no one is interested in business, and the idea of SELLING AN ITEM is entirely beneath those Enlightened Geniuses of Harvard, what disgusting people!!”
hennie, could not agree with you more....growing a business these days is all about buying another company. These idiots in charge have no idea how to build an R&D dept, mktg dept and a sales force. That is way too complicated for most these days. I am in the employment field and see it all the time! SAD!
And that style would be "amateurism".
The dark shadowy group is Obama and the Chicago Marxist Mafia. The CIA and everybody else has either been neutered or driven out of business.
This is exactly like the AF1 joyride around the Statue of Liberty. It sounded like a cool idea at the time, and Bambi and his crude Hollywood buds did fist bumps and went with it, and then normal people were so freaked out that he had to do what he had to do...which was blame it on some flunky.
In this case you need to add, bona fide freaking nut.
That has to be just about the most hideous garment I have ever seen on a human being who should have had better sense than to wear it. Who had the power to convince her that she should wear that? She may as well have dumped a bucket of mud over her own head, it wouldn’t have looked any worse.
ANOTHER AMMO Belt?
Clearly, this whole sad incident is due to sloppy Secret Service procedures Obama inherited from the Bush Administration.
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I wish I'd known what was in this book decades ago; I had NO idea that business schools teach nothing about business, but instill a LOT of sheer CONTEMPT for non-Ivy League Americans. His book is a real page turner, shockeroo eyeopener.
Millions of dollars is just silly & passe, anybody who's anybody has billions. Things I'd never have ever thought up on my own about Harvard Business School. I seriously think that it should be closed. I'm serious. And the graduates sent to RE-education camp. Really!!
I'm not certain if the URL I cut & pasted from my google search will work, but the author's name is Philip Broughton, and his book is AHEAD OF THE CURVE.
Amazon.com:
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
( 9781594201752):
Philip Delves Broughton: Books. http://www.amazon.com/Ahead-Curve-Harvard-Business.../1594201757
Whatever “news” the Obamistas intended to generate from this particular state dinner (maybe some photos of the President bowing to this, that or the other unknown diplomat) Tareq and Michaele Salahi took it all away.
Smoking Man was the best. Except for Dr. Mortimer or whoever it was that was Sherlock Holmes’ arch-enemy. But you never saw him in the old movies, if memory serves.
We don't know if any of what you said is true mostly because it's coming from the same sources that sought to trash "Joe the Plumber" and Sarah Palin's new baby.
whodat, I never realized you were a translator.
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