This is a non-story. A reporter tried to get close and was stopped. He then writes a story about himself and how lax security is, based on what might have happened had he not been stopped.
Thank you! That was my take after reading it, but I thought surely I had missed something, that there was more to the story than what you have described.
Journalism has certainly suffered of late.
This is another example of lax security under the Obama administration. That's the other part of the story.