Noticed something on CBS News....

Roasalie, a couple of further thoughts. Consider John Hinkley. Another party who was "not wound too tight", could have seen heaven knows what movie or whatever, and putting such information in his mind might not be the best thing.
Or Consider the case of John Lennon. He wasn't apparently, but if he had been, I would feel that info about him would also been "out of line".
I was a TV Network reporter in he past, but even back then, I felt some things were "out of line". If I had been the reporter covering this story I would have felt that same thing and not pointed it out.

Those who are being trained to shoot people, police, military, etc., are taught to aim at the body. It is far too easy to miss or graze the head.

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want to kill him and the surest way is in the head. They most likely will only get one shot and it has to count.

Gee, this dialog is getting gruesome.
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head shots aren't taken very often except at extreme close (reach out and touch someone) range Rosalie.

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I think that if the DA had phrased it differently, for example saying "We couldn't care less about Mr. Jackson's new CD; we're professionals doing our jobs" that might have gone over better.

As for Bush, I think it's fine if they say something after the fact, as when Bush made his appearance at Yankee Stadium shortly after 9/11. After it was over it was revealed that he had been wearing a bulletproof vest. I didn't see any harm in it. I remember an occasion when President Clinton was visiting NYC. My office at the time was near the Lincoln Tunnel and we saw the approaches get closed off and a motorcade go through. The next day we learned it was a decoy.

the more the fact tends to stick in someone's mind regardless of how tightly that mind is wrapped in the first place.

NO safety and security options should EVER be revealed regardless of how probable or common place they may seem.

How about an article about you and your home security system and a follow up that provides your address where you were interviewed and the camera crew followed you around? A little TOO MUCH unnecessary info don't you think?

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I agree there should be limits. Some information (e.g. the fact that the President's limo is armored and has bulletproof windows) has been common knowledge for decades. The public wanted to know how safety measures were being improved after the JFK assassination (40 years ago tomorrow BTW). Revealing this basic info put the public at greater ease. And of course we all know about the Secret Service and some of the ways in which their procedures were changed after JFK.*

Enough information to assure the public that the President's security is being addressed, but not enough to help anyone get around it. Exactly where that line should be is a matter of opinion of course but I agree that if a news broadcaster says "this motorcade is a decoy; he's really coming in by chopper," that would be way over the line. If you find out a day later (as I did) that the motorcade was a decoy, yeah it tells you that they occasionally use decoy motorcades but I don't think it presents a security threat.

*On the night of 11/21/63, a number of JFK's Secret Service detail were out drinking until the wee hours, leaving them hung over and sleepy during the motorcade the next day. Several of them spent at least part of their evening at Jack Ruby's nightclub.

""*On the night of 11/21/63, a number of JFK's Secret Service detail were out drinking until the wee hours, leaving them hung over and sleepy during the motorcade the next day. Several of them spent at least part of their evening at Jack Ruby's nightclub.""

Err. J...they couldn't have done anything any better that very next day if they had not been out drinking. Course everyone wished he was in his bullet proof limo, but he wanted everyone to have a chance to see him and Jackie. A "Pope-mobile" would have been great, but not invented then. I saw him twice the very previous day in the convertable limo with the same seating arrangements...Jackie..Connally & wife traveling in a motorcade through San Antonio and was very close to view.

Yes, so some of the Secret Service guys do go out & have a few drinks while away from home doing a stressful job. A friend of mine was in the Secret Service during that period of time on a Presidents detail and I have been out with several of them. They did not drink enough to have a hangover the next day.

JR