Obama Administration Terrorizes DC with Coast Guard Training Exercise

[Patranus]

Washington DC was put on high alert after CNN reported shots being fired on the Potomac river. CNN reported that the coast guard was challenging a "suspicious vessel". This lead to strong response by the DC police and FBI as well as a shutdown of the airspace around DC for a half an hour.

A Coast Guard drill near the Pentagon sparked a frenzy of confusion in Washington on the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Media reports of shots being fired set off a firestorm of fear that the Capital was under attack.

The sign of Coast Guard boats speeding around the Potomac River on Thursday morning with men in combat helmets manning assault guns can sure spark fear ? especially considering today's date.

Add to that a CNN report that shots were being fired and it's no wonder that the FBI and D.C. police force responded, and the Federal Aviation Administration froze the airspace over Reagan International Airport for 22 minutes.

After that incident, Obama said it was a mistake and promised it would not happen again. The director of the White House's military office resigned after the incident.

(Another promise broken)

Two issues here.
1) CNN was so quick to get a story they didn't even try and verify facts
2) After the disaster of the Air Force One photos why would the Obama administration allow this to happen.

Thread locked due to misleading thread title.

Anandtech Senior Moderator
Red Dawn

 

[DealMonkey]

Why are you so quick to blame Obama and not the Coast Guard? Hmmmm.... <taps chin thoughtfully>

 

[dahunan]

LMAO.. these freaks just drool when opportunities like this come up..

 

[Sclamoz]

How can you libtards not see that Obama is a muslim terrorist in disguise bent on destroying this great nation? What other explanation could there possibly be?!

 

[First]

WTF does this have to do with Obama? Damn, OP really is slow or something. :laugh:

 

[Patranus]

Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Why are you so quick to blame Obama and not the Coast Guard? Hmmmm.... <taps chin thoughtfully>

Is Obama not the "commander and chief"?
Didn't Obama say the "buck stops" at him?

 

[DealMonkey]

Originally posted by: Patranus

Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Why are you so quick to blame Obama and not the Coast Guard? Hmmmm.... <taps chin thoughtfully>

Is Obama not the "commander and chief"?
Didn't Obama say the "buck stops" at him?

There are a lot of folks in government and a lot of folks in charge, including whomever is in charge of this Coast Guard exercise. No, I think it's because you're such a rabid Obama-hating attention-whore that you post crap like this.

 

[ElFenix]

this may be the dumbest anti-obama allegation posted here in the last week.

 

[Pens1566]

Troll thread, shocker.

 

[Deeko]

So CNN fucks up royally - and you blame Obama.

Then again, you probably refer to CNN as "Communist News Network", so you undoubtedly think Obama controls them - therefore it actually IS his fault!

It would be amazing to spend a day seeing how you actually think about things. Astounding that the human mind is capable of such ignorance.

 

[Patranus]

Originally posted by: DealMonkey

Originally posted by: Patranus

Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Why are you so quick to blame Obama and not the Coast Guard? Hmmmm.... <taps chin thoughtfully>

Is Obama not the "commander and chief"?
Didn't Obama say the "buck stops" at him?

There are a lot of folks in government and a lot of folks in charge, including whomever is in charge of this Coast Guard exercise. No, I think it's because you're such a rabid Obama-hating attention-whore that you post crap like this.

This thread is titled "Obama Adminstration terrorizes......" where exactly did I say Obama personally did something?

Funny how when the Bush administration interrogates people the story line turns into Bush torturing people....but wait, shouldn't we only look at the CIA?

 

[Schmide]

Classic. The search for dirt in the sky and pie in the ground continues.

 

[DealMonkey]

Why not blame CNN, Patranus? Hmmmm....

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...es-boat-potomac-river/

Apparently, the Coast Guard holds exercises like this every day.

 

[DealMonkey]

Originally posted by: Patranus

After that incident, Obama said it was a mistake and promised it would not happen again. The director of the White House's military office resigned after the incident.

(Another promise broken)

Why are you claiming Obama broke a promise? You seem to be holding him personally responsible.

 

[Patranus]

Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Why not blame CNN, Patranus? Hmmmm....

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...es-boat-potomac-river/

Apparently, the Coast Guard holds exercises like this every day.

LOL - Read my post again. I clearly imply that it was wrong for CNN to report what they reported without having all of the facts.


Yet the thread title doesn't indicate that.

Anandtech Senior Moderator

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