Posted on 09/11/2009 7:13:40 AM PDT by TLI
Edited on 09/11/2009 7:47:44 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Coast Guard fired on boat in the Potomac, nothing on the wires yet...
I think that’s the single fact that has everyone’s spidey sense on alert: Why this particular day, at this particular time, at this particular place? Either a bonehead decision somewhere up the line of command, or there’s something fishy about this. I suspect some poor Coastie is going to take the fall for this one.
Looks to me like somebody with a scanner but the errant crap out there. FOX did not run with it until later when CNN would not drop the story. I'm sure all the news services who usually make these sorts of mistakes, all made them at the same time.
There was nothing short of scrambling all their radio channels that Coast Guard could do to Idiot proof their training regimen.
Wow! The FAA halted planes at Reagan Airport. (FNC)
Krap! The CG comes out at a news presser and tells everyone this was a training exercise - that should have been the end of it! But no! It takes the CG spokesman 15-20 min. to explain over and over to these idiot media people -
Strange day to do this on.Something is not right.Just watched the press conference.
They were done with their mission for the day and they used the extra time to increase proficiency. You can't fault them for what the news people did.
They could have said it was an exercise two hours ago. It happened about 10am
They do it all the time.
It Was An Exercise!So, you condone ill-timed exercises by law enforcement on the morning of 9-11?
If you believe that, good for you. I do not.
Coast Guard to review exercise after Potomac security scare:
The U.S. Coast Guard promised a "thorough review" after a training incident Friday along the Potomac River briefly triggered concerns about the security of President Obama on the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
"We are still gathering information [on] how this training event might have been misconstrued as an actual incident. We will conduct a thorough review of this incident," the Coast Guard said.
(excerpted, more at link)
Looks like CNN is to blame here. If the CG does these excercises everyday/every week..why hasn’t CNN jumped the gun before? I’ll tell you why...they are monitoring all traffic when Obama is on the move because they have bought their own meme...’that ‘domestic racists’ are out to get him’.
So who is really ‘hoping’ for something terrible to happen to Obama? CNN and the MSM! The media in this country never ‘worried’ about President George W. Bush...in fact, it was the left wing media, hollywood and the leftists that hoped for GW to be assasinated and made movies about it.
MORE MSM HYPOCRISY!
I agree. IIRC, during the presser the Coast Guard says it runs training four times per week. Though this incident seems to have been blown out of proportion it still seems odd that the exercises would run on 9-11, and moments before 0bama’s motorcade passed.
Doesn’t add up.
I do. In fact, I think that’s EXACTLY what they should be doing on 9-11. Their job is to stay ready to prevent a second one. What better day to train than the one that drives home just what they’re training for?
Ill timed for CNN maybe...
There is never a time NOT to train.
I make a habit of being "last on" an airplane, unless the flight is near full, so I can pick an empty row. I was leaving town one AM, when, before the plane was loaded, the TSA shut down the airport on "suspicion." Turns out some dude checked an electronic bagpipe through the carry-on X-ray, and none of the screeners would accept his explanation. They saw a PVC pipe with wires inside, and concluded it might be a bomb.
Same idea here. Some bonehead hears something on the radio, and jumps to a conclusion. The media does it daily, although usually without this much detectable and prompt effect.
They don’t halt training exercises when 0bama is traveling by?
Someone didn’t get the memo. JMO
I really don't understand why you or anyone would be blaming the LEO's or the Guard for doing what they are paid to do.
The culprit here is the jerk who bought a scanner, tuned into a protected radio channel and misinterpreted what he heard, then passed that on to the media who aired it inappropriately.
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