About 50 officers, including Metro's anti-terrorism unit, criminal investigators, special response teams and other squads, will move into the station about 7:30 to demonstrate heightened vigilance, Metro officials said. The transit agency won't release the name of the station until early Tuesday and asked the media to refrain from disclosing it until after the exercise begins.
As usual, the media wimped out again. They will have to pick a station where they can get all their stuff in & out easily and one at which the media can easily set up cameras and trucks to get as much of it on film as possible. And, since it's cold out, I'm sure they will pick a station which is inside.
The exercises are funded through a $1.2 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security's Urban Area Security Initiative.
Our tax dollars at work...
I'd politely suggest that a much higher priority for Metro right now would be to figure out how to make the trains run on time without crashing into each other or running over & killing their own workers.