Police Investigate Possible Plot To Kill Obama

For those of you who may not have watched the convention, Michele Obama is quite the public speaker herself and gave a remarkable and touching speech and put up a very good case for voting for Barack Obama.

The tribute to Ted Kennedy, done by JFK's daughter Caroline, and Ted's speech afterward were the two best highlights of the convention thus far.

I feel I can go to sleep tonight, even more assured that if Obama can be president and not get bumped off during his tenure, we WILL see the kind of positive change that America needs so desperately.

Oh, I doubt this is the first plot. There's always haters and nut jobs of some sort out there looking to get attention, get their name known, make some sort of nutso "statement" or whatever, who gravitate toward political figures. Some days, all it would take is someone wearing a green tie on a Tuesday to activate some people.

I was on a lead management team when one vice president came to one NASA center. Despite the fact that this was a secured, closed environment, where everyone who would be at a certain event was already vetted and badged, the security was....incredible. Because of some of my prior work in a very classified, closed world, and some of my former training (including some specialized FBI as well as DOD stuff), I was tapped to work with the high-echelon security stuff. *Very* high echelon.

Most of the security was not seen by those attending the event other than the always-present agents, many of whom are supposed to be seen. The other stuff? Let's just say I was there several hours early that day--after weeks of work--and I walked down some things with our and theirs security teams, the SS, the FBI, all the alphabet. And I was there very very late cleaning up some security things.

The thing with Obama is that they have to have a lot more highly visible security than they do for any other candidate in the Western world. If they don't, people will start screaming that he's being left out there without security.

What people don't get is that what's seen isn't the most important part of a total  security package. Never has been. It's a valuable  part of security, but a small part, and what's seen is also part of the public statement: we're here and we're protecting. 

Other than the visible stuff that's a public statement, the most effective security is silent and invisible. How do you know when security personnel are doing their jobs? Nothing bad happens that disturbs the public.

That's the bottom line.  And how the "nothing bad" is handled is, as I said, handled the best when  95% of it is silent and invisible to most.

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