Cosmic Iguana - Voice of the Evil Doers

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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported late Thursday that security details at Barack Obama's rally in Dallas (of all places) on Wednesday "stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.

"The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a lapse in security," reported the paper's Jack Douglas, Jr.... [*]

This is reminiscent of what happened there in 1963 as Secret Service agents were pulled away from JFK's motorcade just moments before the shots were fired. So this time, was it a mistake or just setting a precedent for another time?

UPDATE: The media and Secret Service are now covering up the security lapse pretending it didn't happen at all: [*].