Plane Violates Camp David airspace

On Wednesday, the White House briefly went to red alert when another plane entered restricted airspace around Washington. President Bush was hurried from his residence to a safer location and lawmakers were ordered to evacuate the Capitol. Two fighters intercepted the twin-engine, propeller-driven plane eight miles northeast of the Capitol and escorted it to Winchester, Va. Full Article

The Secret Service is charged with protecting the President's life. There was the possibility of a threat to the President, so they took action and moved him. Now think back a few years to a morning in autumn when there were an unknown number of "hijacked" planes flying around, some of which had already crashed into buildings, yet the President sat in a Florida elementary school, reading about goats during a publicly scheduled visit, with no "hurried" effort to remove him to a "safer location."