Secret Service Lapses?

Yesterday's bizarre experience with the lackadaisical security at Hillary's Fort Worth Stockyards rally continues to perplex me. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram this morning reported that it was the Secret Service which ordered the security checks to stop about 3 minutes into Hillary's speech.

That is not how I remember it. Hillary had been on the stage basking in the cheering for several minutes before she started to speak. It seemed to me that it was more like 10 minutes into the speech that the flood-like rush of people running towards her caught my eye.

If you look at the above photo you can see the 3 electronic screeners which were used to try and screen thousands of people. Why go to all this bother of slowly checking relatively few people and then suddenly have no security checks? It makes no sense.

Rather than attempt to take care of security like they do at an airport why not instead randomly check people in the line? Security was so lax, like I told you yesterday, I was able to avoid the line very easily.

Had the security people gone up and down the line, randomly checking people, any bad guy would likely have bolted. A random check would have been much better than what they did do, that being stopping thousands from even getting into the event, many bailing due to the ultra-slow moving line, then suddenly letting those who remained rush in with no security check.

If one of those people in that mass of humanity that rushed in after the Secret Service stopped the security checks had a gun and managed to get a shot off at Hillary it is not too hard to figure out that someone would be in big trouble for the ceasing of the security checks.

Seems to me there is a serious problem in this security situation that is in need of a quick solution. Obviously airport type screening does not work with huge crowds. And ceasing all checking seems absurd, going from one extreme to another.