Go to YELLOW alert, Mr. Worf...
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
Posted on 01/14/2005 11:17:46 AM PST by KJC1
Fox News: FBI says suspicious activity along Inaugural route. People walking around taking notes on buildings along route. Not sure if it's terrorist activity or not.
That would be GREAT!! I think he should also wear his flight suit and helmet!! That would REALLY make them go ballistic!!!
Go to YELLOW alert, Mr. Worf...
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
It's the one's you don't see that you need to worry about.
I agree. Something's up. And this isn't the first time since the election that I've had this feeling...
Inauguration to Get Unprecedented Security
KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Security for President Bush's inauguration - the first swearing-in since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks - will be unprecedented with some 6,000 law enforcement personnel, canine bomb teams and close monitoring of transportation.
In describing the plans for the Jan. 20 event, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said that while the decibel level was down on terrorism chatter, the 55th quadrennial presidential inauguration was such a high-profile event that security would be at its highest level.
"This is the most visible manifestation of our democracy," Ridge said at a news conference near the Capitol, where Bush will take the oath on the West Front.
Ridge detailed some of the security plans, including patrols of harbors, mobile command vehicles, round-the-clock surveillance of the key facilities, a record number of canine bomb teams and thousands of security personnel. He likened the resources to those used during the political conventions last year.
"Security will be at the highest levels of any inauguration," Ridge said.
The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that it will expand the no-fly zone, now a 15-3/4-mile radius around the Washington Monument, to a 23-mile radius around Reagan National, Dulles and Baltimore-Washington International airports. The temporary flight restrictions will be in effect from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Jan. 20.
Roughly 2,500 military personnel will also be on hand to bolster security, with another 4,700 involved in ceremonial duties, said Maj. Gen. Galen Jackman, who commands the Army's military district of Washington.
Jackman said he did not think all the security would detract from the experience of the 250,000 people expected to watch the swearing-in and the estimated 500,000 expected along the parade route from the Capitol to the White House.
"I don't think people will notice kind of an encampment mentality here," Jackman said. "I think they'll feel very comfortable with what we've arranged."
Ridge noted that intelligence picked up in March and April suggested terrorists may be interested in attacking during the election year. He and other counterterrorism officials have said that threat could extend through the inauguration.
On Tuesday, he sought to play down the warnings issued last year. "There is no specific threat directed toward the inaugural or inaugural activities," he said.
City officials in Washington are still working with the Homeland Security Department to sort out who will pay some of the bills. The district's total cost for the event is expected to be $17.3 million, which includes overtime for members of the more than 60 law enforcement agencies that will be brought in to help.
Among other charges: almost $3 million to build viewing stands and $43,260 to develop special license tags, according to a letter Washington Mayor Anthony Williams sent to federal officials late last month.
City officials are seeking permission to dip into the district's $240 million allotment from the federal government to pay for other costs it will incur during the inauguration.
When asked if he thought it was appropriate to use city dollars for basics such as bleachers, Ridge said he was not aware of city money going toward infrastructure improvements, but said the district is eligible for federal reimbursement for overtime expenses.
"We believe there are significant resources available to help the district with costs associated with increased security," Homeland Security spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said.
DC Chapter and all FReepers attending the Inauguration:
ALERT:
A.N.S.W.E.R.?/AQ?/DUmmies? up to something
B.O.L.O. for anything unusual.
Perhaps I'm getting a bit irrational in behalf of my Nation and President . . .
But . . .
I'd still love to see them ban all Muslims from within a 100 mile radius of the parade route.
AND post a notice of a bounty payable to anyone catching a Muslim within that parameter--a bounty of $150 alive and maybe . . . welll anyway.
GRRRR. Sigh.
And how do does the informant know that the notes are descriptive ?
Let's hope the cops and feds took down names and addresses and followed them home. Videotape of jotters would be good, too.
That looks like it is close to where I stood in 01.
Golly, you're right.
Is anything brewing in the DUmpster? Mebbe one of you who has acces can go check...
They must be using a better ballpoint pen than I have - mine has a hard enough time writing on paper!
If bill and hill, billary as it were, klinton can COME UP WITH OVER THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS, of our tax money, for a boondoggle trip to China for themselves and their buddies and security folks, you know, $$$$$$$$ 300,000,000.00, I am SURE the money can be found to help D.C. out with inauguration expenses!
Thanks for the ping. I've been walking up and down Pennsylvania Avenue the past few weeks taking mental notes. I have not seen any suspicious people as described in the alert. Of course, I'm not out there all day long.
They've done their homework. Even symbolism in the loading graphic is alarming.
How dumb are these people? Don't they realize the J. Edgar Hoover Building - FBI HQ - is right on Pennslyvania Ave?
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