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2015-01-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Skidmark 2015-01-26 11:34|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Paging Mathias Rust. Mathias Rust to the white courtesy phone please.

Posted by Albemarle Shique7192 2015-01-26 13:19|| 2015-01-26 13:19|| Front Page Top

#2 A great many different organizations & people are capable of this. A UAV might not even need to be controlled remotely if it can be guided by GPS signals, which would make it a cruise missile.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-01-26 13:49|| 2015-01-26 13:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Secret Service UAV operator failure ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-26 14:13|| 2015-01-26 14:13|| Front Page Top

#4 From the volume of reported 'news coverage' I'm guessing it wasn't an estate patrol drone dropped by the SS but a successful probe of the WH wireless defense dome, intentional or derived.
Now they know the pocket rockets need hardened autonomous guidance and a different delivery.
Anybody remember the movie 'Screamers' with Peter Weller?

Posted by Skidmark 2015-01-26 17:29|| 2015-01-26 17:29|| Front Page Top

#5 I wonder if GPS is operative in the vicinity.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-01-26 19:29|| 2015-01-26 19:29|| Front Page Top

#6 For some reason the New York Times has the scoop. Via Drudge Report:

The small drone that crashed into a tree on the South Lawn of the White House early Monday morning was operated by a government employee who has told the Secret Service that he did not mean to fly it over the White House fence or near the presidentâs residence, according to law enforcement officials.

The employee â who does not work for the White House â has told the Secret Service that he was flying the drone for recreational use at about 3 a.m. in the area around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue when he lost control of it.

So far, the Secret Service said it believed the manâs account.

Flying a drone at three in the morning? What an odd time to do such a thing.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-01-26 20:11|| 2015-01-26 20:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Most good people are asleep and in bed at 0300

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-01-26 20:33|| 2015-01-26 20:33|| Front Page Top

#8 "gov employee" and "good people" in the same sentence. Must cogitate on that.

Posted by 3dc 2015-01-26 20:48|| 2015-01-26 20:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Luckily the stooge did not have a GadsdenFlag on the drone or he would be on his way to Gitmo.

Posted by Airandee 2015-01-26 21:08|| 2015-01-26 21:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Monitoring and counting frequencies could help. There is also air heat signature.

Posted by newc 2015-01-26 22:35|| 2015-01-26 22:35|| Front Page Top

#11 0300 is 1500 some places AP. 0300 is midpoint between REMs and a metabolic low point for the bored, sleep deprived Capitol Police night shift.
With POTUS out of town, SS was on light duty.
I wonder if the drone was on its way out

Posted by Skidmark 2015-01-26 23:10|| 2015-01-26 23:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Whatever the case no one got hurt... next time, and I hope there is no next time, things could be different...

Posted by Blinky Ghibelline2658 2015-01-26 23:59|| 2015-01-26 23:59|| Front Page Top

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