http://dc.metblogs.com/2009/03/27/obama-comes-home-under-calm-of-night/ Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://dc.metblogs.com/2009/03/27/obama-comes-home-under-calm-of-night/comment-page-1/#comment-15152 James G. Gilmore Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:37:27 +0000 http://dc.metblogs.com/?p=8307#comment-15152 I thought I read somewhere that Marine One always travels in a three-copter convoy for security... because anyone who might want to shoot the President down wouldn't know which helicopter he was in. Maybe they've come up with new technologies or something that makes that unnecessary, though... it seems unlikely to me that the Secret Service would ramp up security like that for just any chopper landing. I thought I read somewhere that Marine One always travels in a three-copter convoy for security… because anyone who might want to shoot the President down wouldn’t know which helicopter he was in. Maybe they’ve come up with new technologies or something that makes that unnecessary, though… it seems unlikely to me that the Secret Service would ramp up security like that for just any chopper landing.

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