Savvy Traveler

The embarassment here is the media and their "reporting" of the story, not the response of the USSS (Secret Service). USSS has a job to do, and they do it very, very well. Appropriate protocols were enacted and the principals were all protected. As an unusally insightful talking head commented, this could have easily beee a distraction to a ground assault. I feel the response was appropriate, especially in light of the foiled mid-nineties plot to fly a general aviation craft (packed with explosives) into CIA HQ. In today's incident, I doubt very much anyone had time to analyze the size/cargo capacity of the aircraft. Armchair quarterbacking is easy - and fine - just try to remember what is at stake and that these people have to act in the moment.

Secondly, and I cannot emphasize this enough, any idiot flying into that airspace is so goddamn stupid that shooting him or her down would surely improve the gene pool.