The Secret Service at Booker Elementary: The Dog That Did Not Bark
Posted Jul 12, 2004 04:46 PM PST
Several days ago, I posted this story and challenged redaers to send it in to media outlets all over the country, with but one question. With an unknown number of hijacked planes flying over the country and crashing into building, with the President's location made public the day before in the media, and with an airport just 4 miles away, how did Bush's Secret Service detail know for a fact that Bush was safe where he sat reading about goats.
Needless to say, nobody in the mainstream media has offered a reply. Indeed, the media admits receiving the emailed questions only off the record.
Posted Jul 12, 2004 04:46 PM PST
Several days ago, I posted this story and challenged redaers to send it in to media outlets all over the country, with but one question. With an unknown number of hijacked planes flying over the country and crashing into building, with the President's location made public the day before in the media, and with an airport just 4 miles away, how did Bush's Secret Service detail know for a fact that Bush was safe where he sat reading about goats.
Needless to say, nobody in the mainstream media has offered a reply. Indeed, the media admits receiving the emailed questions only off the record.
From the story:
Hijacked aircraft were wandering across the eastern half of the country. In theory nobody could have known how many there are or if more planes were not in the process of being hijacked. How could they? Two of the planes had crashed into the World Trade Center. There is an airport only four miles from Booker Elementary School, and Bush's presence at the school was known to the public 24 hours in advance. Nobody would have assumed he was not a target.
And yet the President's Secret Service Detail did not rush in and remove the President to a secure location, or at least to the safety of the armored Presidential Limousine. That's their job. That's what they do in the case of a real surprise attack with so many unknowns. They don't do anything else.
But the President's Secret Service Detail did nothing.
And yet the President's Secret Service Detail did not rush in and remove the President to a secure location, or at least to the safety of the armored Presidential Limousine. That's their job. That's what they do in the case of a real surprise attack with so many unknowns. They don't do anything else.
But the President's Secret Service Detail did nothing.
There are a lot of unaswered questions, and this is as good a one as any, I suppose. Another thing that I am reminded of is that there are reports of activity around where Bush was staying in Florida that appear as if he might have been a target there, which adds to the question of why they thought he was safe.
On the night of September 10th, Bush stayed at the Colony Beach Resort - "an upscale and relatively pristine tropical island enclave located directly on the Gulf of Mexico, a spindly coral island ... off Sarasota, Florida." [AP, 07/29/01] Zainlabdeen Omer, a Sudanese native living in Sarasota, told the local police that night that someone he knew who had made violent threats against Bush was in town and Omer was worried about Bush's safety. The man was identified only as "Ghandi." A police report states the Secret Service was informed immediately. [Hopsicker, 7/22/02]
Cooperative Research articleMore 9/11 questions and answers are on my 9/11 web page.
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