At least it didn't run through the front door of the White House and into the East Room while Secret Service agents figured, no worries, the shrubs will stop it.
Because that would never happen. Oh . . .
CBS News was one of the first to report it:
The good news in this particular situation are a) Mr. and Mrs. Obama are not there as they're traveling in India, although their daughters and Mrs. Obama's mother are there; and b) early indications, anyway, indicate this particular drone is not a threat.
But that's about it in the good news department. Just as we were wildly wrong in our assumption that you couldn't just hop the fence and run into the White House because the Secret Service surely had mastered protocols for such a situation, apparently you're also way off if you think the Secret Service is ready to stop random drones flying onto the grounds.
Yeah, dude, they have sharpshooters on the roof who are ready for stuff like that!
Do they? Or did you always just assume that?
They have radar to detect if anything flies into certain air space around the White House!
Want to bet? This drone, of unknown origin, landed in the middle of the night in winter. It wasn't even discovered until some hours later. That raises all kinds of questions, of course, over who might have flown it there and why, if it was intentional, or even if it could have been a practice run for something that will represent a real threat.
But the one thing we can say, and shudder to think about, is that the Secret Service is clearly not prepared for all kinds of situations that can and very well might present themselves in the modern age. And if I were thinking about running for president, it would give me serious pause because these guys show no indication they're really prepared to protect the president from all kinds of things that are very real possibilities today.
Something to think about, Hillary. We wouldn't want anything to happen to you.
