U.S. capitol building being evacuated., WTF? Options

[Special K]

U.S. FIGHTER JETS FLYING ABOVE WHITE HOUSE... The U.S. Capitol and White House were evacuated Wednesday and alarms range through the buildings. War planes were seen flying overhead and security cars rushed away from the building. Reporters in the White House were told to move to a more secure location.

From Drudge

[Guest_Agent of Oblivion_*]

Some plane veered off course I guess. I think they're fuckin' with us.

[Guest_Cerebus_*]

A little more explination:

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Capitol and White House were briefly evacuated Wednesday after a small plane entered restricted airspace over the city. Several other government buildings, including the Treasury Department and the U.S. Supreme Court, ordered people to safer locations.

President Bush was away from the White House exercising on his bicycle. Congressional leaders were moved from the Capitol.

A small Cessna aircraft breached the security zone over Washington, several law enforcement officials said, prompting alerts across the city.

The plane was approached by a fighter aircraft and veered away, according to a
Federal Aviation Administration official speaking on condition of anonymity.

Armed security officers raced through the Capitol shouting for people to leave. "This is not a drill," guards shouted as they moved people away from the building.

Sen. Richard Shelby (news, bio, voting record), R-Ala., was on the Senate floor when police told him they needed to evacuate. "They said get out of here, so I ran. There's no joking about this kind of stuff," Shelby said.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert was on the House floor talking to members when the evacuation siren went off. He left quickly with his security detail.

Two large black armored SUVs often used by House and Senate leaders sped away from the Capitol as a military jet flow overhead.

"People were surprised. I was surprised," said Rep. Bob Ney (news, bio, voting record), R-Ohio, who was on the House floor when the evacuation began. "There was so much commotion in the gallery. People were yelling in the gallery. We thought something had happened in the gallery, and then the alarm came to evacuate."

The incident sparked a flurry of emergency activity throughout the capital, which was targeted on Sept. 11, 2001 and has been under a heightened state of alert since then.

Washington's Reagan National Airport has been closed to general aviation since the Sept. 11 attacks. In the 3 1/2 years since then, hundreds of small planes have flown within the restricted airspace around the capital — a 15 3/4-mile radius around the Washington Monument.

However, it's rare for fighter jets to be scrambled.

In the most dramatic incident since the Sept. 11 attacks, thousands of people fled the Capitol and other nearby buildings when a plane flew into the restricted air space just before the funeral procession for President
Ronald Reagan last June.

A communications breakdown led federal officials to believe the plane might be targeting the Capitol, but it turned out to be carrying Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher, who had been cleared to fly into the area.

[SuperJerk]

Whoever was flying that plane is GONNA GET IT...

[Big Ol' Smitty]

That's the second time my dumbass governor has been involved in security breaches in D.C.

[Jobber of the We...]

Good thing Rush knows what's really going on. I guess Bill Clinton was flying the plane or something.

Now, that Cessna 150 it looks like is on the ground now and is being surrounded. I hope it's not Rahm Emanuel flying this thing, or some Clinton aide.

Apparently here's the latest scuttlebutt from out of Washington on this. A bunch of the news channels showed Hillary walking out all calm and cool and collected; everybody else around her was running for their lives and Hillary was just taking her time and walking out. Now, the Democrats have started to say -- if you've been watching any cable news, paying any attention, you're starting to hear just a little bit of rumbling about this, and it's going to grow louder as the day goes on. "There's no leadership in this town. There's no evacuation plan. This is not the way you do an evacuation, people running all over everybody in their high heels. That's not a way to do this. We need leadership. Did you see the way Mrs. Clinton calmly and coolly and collectedly walked out of there? That's the kind of leadership we need." Gag me! Puke day, but that's what's brewing now in Democrat circles. That's why I want to know who's flying this airplane. I'm only kidding about that -- half.

WTF. I can't believe people listen to this guy.

[SuperJerk]

Rush Limbaugh could turn a picture of a baby kitten into an attack on Democrats.