Re: Secret Service Finds Hunting Stand in Florida With Line of Sight to Air Force One 'Exit Area'

-hh <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:54:49 +0200

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useapen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Fox News broke the story that the FBI is now investigating a hunting stand 
> the U.S. Secret Service discovered with a “direct line of sight” to where 
> the president exits Air Force One in Florida at the Palm Beach 
> International Airport. 

Having a “direct line of sight” doesn’t make it a meaningful threat.  Case
in point, we also have a direct line of sight to the moon, and it is well
out of anyone’s firing range.

> He said that Secret Service agents were conducting their "advance security 
> preparations" prior to the president’s arrival in Palm Beach when they 
> found the stand. 

Which merely means it was probably within the radius circle of their
security sweeps, not that it was also close enough to be a tactical threat
risk.

-hh