Reply #50: That is a good point.

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However Kennedy had excellent security coverage also - until the moment right before the guns shots were fired, and his security was made to stand down.

So I don't know that you can consider any President's security as being good. Like other posters are saying, once the incident occurs, the coup d'etat is complete - and no investigation will happen.

Any time they want, the electronics on AF One and Helicopter One can be jammed, I imagine. And then what happened to Wellstone's plane could happen to the President. (Didn't Obama refuse the upgrades on the Helicopter? And of course - the security on these vehicles - at any point in time, a mechanical check can reveal everything is okay, and then a mechanical "upgrade" a week later can change everything.))

And you are right about the Senators and the Congress people not having much in the way of security. Though one does have to wonder, as our city streets are laced with cameras, why it doesn't seem like anyone has gotten arrested for the smashing of windows at Democratic offices. If we anti war folks were smashing ROTC and recruiting windows, I am sure they would have camera footage to nail whoever among us did the deed.