Bush not told of scare till after bike ride

[brettdale]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3278378a12,00.html


Bush not told of scare till after bike ride
12 May 2005

WASHINGTON: United States president George W Bush was not told for nearly an hour while he finished a bike ride about a breach in White House airspace yesterday that prompted the highest alert since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the White House said.


The White House said the Secret Service held off informing the president because he was not in danger.

Bush was about a half-an-hour into his ride at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Centre in Maryland when an unidentified Cessna airplane came near the White House, sending the Secret Service scrambling to evacuate vice president Dick Cheney and move First Lady Laura Bush to a secure location.

[Deja Q]

1. This is a duplicate, but I'll say again it's not our fault that those who

told the prez are slower than a classroom full of kindergartners attempting to solve a trigonometric equasion...

[blogbear]

4. Take it slow for 'em..mighty slow..The W has 'training wheels'..

We mustn't take chances or get him too fired up..

[NVMojo]

2. what was that dimwit doing on a bicycle in the middle of a work week day?

LOSER!!!!

[Wickerman]

6. simple, they like to keep him out of the way to let the "grownups" work

there was absolutely no reason to tell him of the incident.

[Poiuyt]

3. I thought that was strange too

Who would have given the order to shoot it down if it had coume to that? Bush was blissfully unaware, Cheney was hightailing out of the WH with his tail between his legs, Laura and Nancy Reagan went to the presidential bunker. Where'a Alexander Haig when you need him? :)

[CornField]

5. Bike Riding is Hard Work!

You really have to focus when you're doing that otherwise you might get in a wreck and bloody your cheek and/or nose.

[VOX]

7. Flashback to 9/11: When he *was* told, he didn't do anything, either.

So maybe the Secret Service figured, "What's the point?" :dunce:

[Stirk]

8. Does anyone else remember something similar, prior to 9-11?

I do. This was months before 9-11. Some guy took a shot at the White House, or jumped the gate or something- it was mid-morning on a weekday, and just like today, Cheney was in his office, Bush was playing in the gym.

I remember it very clearly because it sort of summed the pair up for me.

[satya]

9. And, like on 9/11, the Secret Service knew he was not in danger because...

??? :shrug:

[n2mark]

10. Interesting the village idiot

never knows anything until after the fact. Shrub is not the president, he is an acting president and does a poor job doing that. It appears whoever they are, do not inform him of anything.
Sure....