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So the the Coast Guard knew the President had left?

They would not have started a training exercise until cleared to do so. That would mean that the POTUS either was past their bridge, or did not use it and they were told so.

I don't know why folks on this forum are attacking the Coast Guard, because that is what CNN is doing. They are doing so to coverup the shoddy reporting.

?I watched this go down this AM, and I saw the breathless CNN female listening in her ear to a producer as she related that a report of shooting by the Coast Guard on a pleasure boat that would not stop. The POTUS's location was checked and he was in the WH.

Their were no shots....There was no boat and the camera angle was too far away for them to see what was going on so they started making shit up. I saw and heard it. It was all CNN. FOX later picked up on it but could not verify any of it.

CNN then got FRAN Townsend, the ex GWB security ZAR and she added fuel to the fire with more conjecture.

It was damn funny.

I knew then that in order to extract themselves from this mistake they would have to find a bogeyman. They decided to compare it to the presidential plane incident, but there is no comparison. Even FOX is participating in the blame game.

In the end, The Coasties need not change anything. They might want to use a encoded channel for training, but other than that, this is a bad reporting incident and a media black eye.