BREAKING: WH and Capitol just got locked down

[Perky]

LOCKDOWN: The White House and Capitol have been locked down for security reasons.
The press was asked by Secret Service to move into the briefing room immediately. A visiting tour group from James Madison can't leave the room either. -- Josh Gerstein and Amie Parnes (12:45 p.m.)

http://www.politico.com/politico44/

[tabatha]

1. All clear, now.

[Perky]

3. Based on what?

Was probably a Plane in forbidden zone.

[MADem]

8. Airspace violation. Some moron, likely. nt

ALL CLEAR: After a brief security lockdown due to an airspace violation, the White House gets the "all clear" signal. (12:55 p.m.)

[ProSense]

9. They should find out if the pilot was put up to this by any group.

Too coincidental.

[ShortnFiery]

10. Yes, if this were a movie it would be rated "super B"

:eyes:

[ProSense]

12. Yeah, remember

Ashley

[MADem]

16. That chunk of airspace is fairly large--it very well could have been just a nitwit.

This happened during BUSHCO too a few times....turned out on one occasion it was some uber-loyal Republican who screwed up, too, which made it all the more amusing.

[onenote]

17. yep.

For all the tinfoilers -- when it happened during the chimp years, you thought it was a put up job by Rove to invoke "terra terra terra". It wasn't. And now that its happened during the Obama administration, some are hypothesizing that it was a put up job (although not exactly sure what the point was supposed to be). Same answer: it wasn't.

[ProSense]

19. True

I'm reacting to the timing. No doubt, it'll happen again.

[Hutzpa]

23. I not buying that BS

especially when Timothy McVie was recruited when he came back from Iraq, these are times for people to be extremely cautious and don't take anything for granted.

I don't believe in coincidence, but thats just me....:think:

[MADem]

26. Well, I'm not shopping or buying a conspiracy theory

The plane was escorted to Indian Head. We'll find out soon enough.

[onenote]

18. put up to it for what purpose? And too coincidental with what?

Just trying to understand the tinfoil.

[ProSense]

20. It's over your head. n/t

[onenote]

22. the plane is definitely over my head. Can't argue with that.

And if it was down on the ground below me, the tinfoilers might have a point.

[Hutzpa]

24. You wouldn't know

a thing, and your ignorance does not help either, besides, I don't think you're trying to
understand because you've already shown your negativity by referring to his cautious
approach as tinfoil.

[onenote]

28. is that another way of saying you don't know the answer?

[Hutzpa]

32. Its not a matter of me not knowing the answer,

it a matter of seeing things from a different perspective, which is...DO NOT TAKE THINGS FOR GRANTED...has always been my moto.

These days I cannot stay still and act as if everything is hunky Dorree, I have to keep one eye on fools, especially with Fauxs pontification of violence.

[tabatha]

15. news

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. 5, 4, 3, 2,.....nt

[Jennicut]

4. Weird and creepy. Hope everything is fine.

[Jennicut]

5. It was a plane violating the airspace rules. Everything fine now.

[islandgirl808]

7. is this a sign?

:tinfoilhat:

[MiniMe]

6. Per MSNBC, small plane wandered into restricted airspace

The plane has now landed.

[Catamount]

11. Cheney's idea of a 'joke'? n/t

[tekisui]

13. I'm interested in learning what type of plane, and who the pilot was.

[tekisui]

14. Cessna 180 came into the airspace from the Northeast.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/

[hvn_nbr_2]

21. Waterboard somebody NOW! We need the truth right now! nt

[Hutzpa]

25. This is part of intelligence community

trying to send a message to Obama, me thinks. Based on the last couple of days they definitely are
not in good mood.

[onenote]

29. and what message were they sending? that if the CIA sends a small plane

into restricted airspace near the Capitol (not the WH) two F-16s and a pair of Coast Guard choppers will, as expected,scramble and intercept it before it poses a risk to the White House?

That should have Obama shaking in his boots.

Not.

BTW -- while the names haven't been released, the plane apparently was piloted by a man from Maine, who along with his wife, was heading to North Carolina to visit their daughter for the weekend. (As far as I can tell, the man was not named Maxwell Smart and his wife wasn't agent 99).

[DevonRex]

30. Nah. The intelligence community is fine. It's the ones who are no longer

able to tell them what to do who are a wee bit constipated.

[Hutzpa]

31. Point taken

thanks.

[Hippo_Tron]

27. I wonder if the group from James Madison will discuss the causes of terrorism with senior staff

Perhaps over apples and peanut butter.

[high density]

33. More details

"It was just a navigation mistake, the GPS went and the pilot got confused," Bauserman said in an interview with The Associated Press. The airport owner identified the pilot as William Wales.

"This has happened many times. The restricted zone in D.C., all it does is catch poor innocent people. They've never caught a terrorist, it's just people making a mistake," he said.

The White House said President Barack Obama was "briefly relocated" during the incident, but declined to say where he was taken.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/newsupdate.php?updates/maine-plane-prompts-capitol-evacuation