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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWas SS Agent Chaney involved in any way with this event (2008 SS Screening failure @ Obama Event)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3192181Police concerned about order to stop screening
By JACK DOUGLAS Jr.
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
Police were told to stop screening people for weapons before the rally began.
DALLAS -- Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.
The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a lapse in security...
Several Dallas police officers said it worried them that the arena was packed with people who got in without even a cursory inspection.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because, they said, the order was made by federal officials who were in charge of security at the event...
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He drives around w/ Texas secession bumper stickers, to boot??
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002593403
Gotta wonder.
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Was SS Agent Chaney involved in any way with this event (2008 SS Screening failure @ Obama Event) (Original Post)
Cooley Hurd
Apr 2012
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orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)1. I don't put it past those Misanthropes
Grassy Knoll Lite ? Poppy probably suggested it to cut cost ,and not offend anyone .
monmouth
(21,078 posts)2. This whole SS drama is starting to get a real odor to it. The entire detail either needs to be
fired or transferred to another location. Clean the slate, our President does not appear to be safe with this present team.
Rhiannon12866
(221,219 posts)3. K&R. Off to The Greatest Page. This is scary stuff...
Who screens these jokers?
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)4. Really should wonder...knr