"Georgia's security chief said Wednesday that an inactive grenade was found 100 feet from the site where President Bush made a speech in Tbilisi. Gela Bezhuashvili, secretary of the Georgian National Security Council, said the Soviet-era grenade was found in 'inactive mode' near the tribune where Bush spoke on Tuesday.
"Bush wasn't even aware of the grenade report until Secret Service agents on the plane told him about it as his plane was returning to Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington, spokesman Scott McClellan said, adding that the White House never believed the president's life was in danger."
So this was a stunt or a dud. But if it was the latter, then how can the feds say there was no threat? Meanwhile, these stories get big play...
Two in custody after Capitol plane scare
Incoming cloud forces Bush into safe bunker
...which reminds me of an observation posted after the inauguration:
"Most people get a thrill in the presence of power: the pomp and circumstance, the sense of history, the greatness of leadership. I enjoy the security precautions: the police presence, flashing lights, squawking radios, barricades, bulletproof glass, bomb-sniffing dogs, sharpshooters on buildings, and the men and women in suits and sunglasses talking to themselves.
"I've learned to appreciate -- hell, look forward to -- our leader's ongoing tributes to the memory of lone gunmen and the ghosts of American foreign policy's collateral damage. This systematized deference to the phantasms of their imagination, this bureaucratic homage to the spectres of the unknown, is an object lesson in the power of fear. A power that can never touch me in the way it occupies all of them."
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