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http://www.star-telegram.com/dallas_news/story/486413.html

Posted on Thu, Feb. 21, 2008

Police concerned about order to stop screening
By JACK DOUGLAS Jr.
Star-Telegram Staff Writer

DALLAS -- Security details at Barack Obama's rally 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.

Dallas Deputy Police Chief T.W. Lawrence, head of the Police Department's homeland security and special operations divisions, said the order -- apparently made by the U.S. Secret Service -- was meant to speed up the long lines outside and fill the arena's vacant seats before Obama came on.
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The Secret Service did not return a call from the Star-Telegram seeking comment.
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Several Dallas police officers said it worried them that the arena was packed with people who got in without even a cursory inspection.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because, they said, the order was made by federal officials who were in charge of security at the event."

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[Milwaukiedave]

It's not just recent events, at past events security has been pretty lax as well. I saw Obama in September and several people commented how little people were screened as they came in.

[cbclark4]

Every event I went to for John McCain I never once saw a metal detector?

I shook his hand at every event I attended, even when he spoke at my
college commencement.

[nicholas_chiasson]

Manchurian candidate pt 3. starring
Barrack Obama as THE TARGET

[Czarjorge]

Maybe he's secretly superhuman and immune to damage.

[Kuros]

[regicide]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Secret Service Friday denied reports that security measures at a recent Barack Obama rally in Texas were relaxed or deviated from established plans.

Secret Service spokesman Eric Zahren said there was no order from the Secret Service to stop screening people going to the Obama rally Wednesday at Dallas Reunion Arena. He said that the event security plans didn�t involve having each participant pass through a magnetometer, as may be the case at other events.

The Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram reported that some police at the event expressed concern about people not passing through metal detectors.

"Any allegations to the fact that we had suspended screening or deviated from the original security plan would be entirely inaccurate," Zahren said.

Obama, D-Ill., spoke before some 17,000 supporters at the rally ahead of the March 4 primary election in Texas. There were no security-related incidents.

While stressing that security preparations are different for each venue and event, Zahren said officials were happy with the security plan for the rally at Reunion Arena and the way it was implemented.

Limited use of metal detectors "in no way constituted a security lapse at this venue," Zahren said, adding that the security measures were developed with Dallas-area law enforcement personnel

[blaseblasphemener]

What has Obama done in the past to indicate that he will go against the status quo? This is a legitimate question. If anyone knows, please post. He strikes me as someone who talks about change like it's a buzz word.

[bacasper]

[catman]