[RetroSexual]

Conducting a training exercise today and in that location with shots fired is so inconceivably stupid that I doubt that's what really happened.

Obama's an idiot, but the people who run the Coast Guard are not. My suspicion is that there's been some sort of minor incident that they'd rather not publicize.

[khnyny]

Bingo. I’m calling BS on this whole cover story.

I’m here (near the Potomac):

1. The electricity goes off
2. Sirens are heard
3. Flights are stopped at National Airport
4. Shots were fired
5. Then no shots were fired
6. Then it was “rubber bullets”
7. Back to no shots were fired

Then we find out about the “incident” near a bridge where the POTUS is crossing over to or from the Pentagon.

Either someone is triggy happy, it was a real incident or we have Inspector Clouseau running the show.

[ClearCase_guy]

My suspicion is that there's been some sort of minor incident that they'd rather not publicize.

I'm reminded of the scene in "Iron Man" where Iron Man collides with an F-22 and the F-22 goes down (pilot rescued). His pentagon contacts demands, "Tony, how am I going to explain this???" Tony Stark suggests "Training accident? Isn't that what we usually say?" "No one's going to buy that Tony!! Not this time!!"

Cut to the next scene in which the Pentagon contact says to a crowd of reporters: "In a tragic training accident today ..."