[driftdiver]

My wife watches news from South Korea. They report the news very differently then we hear in the news. They report that the US Govt knew of a threat before the marathon and they knew where the threat was from.

Sounds like they think its a much larger threat then we are being told.

[butterdezillion]

To have the National Guard from New York there at the marathon, the governor of MA had to request them to be there, and that wouldn’t make sense for a drill, like everybody was told the security was about. Drills would be organized through the military, I presume - not by the governor. And drills would be at a simulated event, not a real one.

News reports claimed that request was made last Friday. The public needs to see that request.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

No argument from me on that, though I have plenty of argument at the ready for Janet "we've-never-been-safer" Napolitano.

 

 

[nfldgirl]

Then why didn’t they have security points set up checking backpacks, strollers, other bags for people entering the main seating/staging areas? With that many security personnel all over the places, it seems to me that would have been the prudent thing to do.