Originally Posted by
navigatro
You can't really be serious about trying to defend the Air Force on this one.
They are going to take a lot of heat, and deservedly so.
This is not a security issue. It is a (lack of) public relations issue.
Yes - I am absolutely defending the SECURITY portion of why advance **warning** to the public wasn't provided. So....you don't see a security issue with telling the whole world that a B-747 (and not just any B-747) is going to be flying circles at low level? Am I defending the AF or the White House or whomever? I don't know - I said it was a security issue. I also said that if we have come to a point that we can't have a photo op then the terrorists really have won.
It seems that the White House has already given an apology. It may have been a public relations blunder, but the security issue was necessary IMO.
USMCFLYR