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MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 03:28 PM Mar 2017

Golf Courses - Where nobody can hear you plotting the nation's downfall.

Now, isn't that convenient. Trump is out golfing today. We don't know who's in the party he's with. We don't know what they're talking about. Golf courses are great for secret discussions about, you know, whatever and the other thing.

We need some of the players to turn State's evidence on this whole shebang. We might have to give them immunity, but we need very much to know the truth.

It's beginning to look like just that sort of arrangements are being made, too. Who will be the first to spill his guts about Trump and his Russian connections? Once one goes, the others will follow, if they can get immunity.

I hate to see crooks get away with things, but sometimes, we need them to get an investigation to the top.

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Golf Courses - Where nobody can hear you plotting the nation's downfall. (Original Post) MineralMan Mar 2017 OP
Can't people start using consumer photography drones? Jonny Appleseed Mar 2017 #1
I can guarandamntee that any drone flying anywhere MineralMan Mar 2017 #2
I fully endorse photography drones in lieu of reporters that've gotten too lazy to investigate. Jonny Appleseed Mar 2017 #3
Not the point, as far as the Secret Service is concerned. MineralMan Mar 2017 #4
Very easy to bug Loge23 Mar 2017 #5
Again, you're forgetting the Secret Service. MineralMan Mar 2017 #6
Just get Rodney to fix things up for you. longship Mar 2017 #7
 

Jonny Appleseed

(960 posts)
1. Can't people start using consumer photography drones?
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 03:43 PM
Mar 2017

I doubt these places he's going to have protected low-altitude airspace.

CNN has a few of them.

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
2. I can guarandamntee that any drone flying anywhere
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 03:45 PM
Mar 2017

near the President will be taken down and tracked back to its owner. So, in short, no. The Secret Service is not going to tolerate drones near the President. Nor should they. Trump will not always be President. Let's not set up precedents.

 

Jonny Appleseed

(960 posts)
3. I fully endorse photography drones in lieu of reporters that've gotten too lazy to investigate.
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 03:51 PM
Mar 2017

It'd be a cheap alternative to the general trend of actual journalism being replaced by NewsTalking and googling. Presidents should either meet with better people, or meet with the bad people they're meeting with in a more secure location.


Imagine this guy with a drone. The sky's the limits.

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
4. Not the point, as far as the Secret Service is concerned.
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 03:53 PM
Mar 2017

They don't worry about cameras and directional mics. They're worried about explosives and aerosols. There will be no drones allowed to fly anywhere near any President anywhere. It simply won't happen.

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
6. Again, you're forgetting the Secret Service.
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 03:56 PM
Mar 2017

They know about the dangers of things like golf carts, golf bags, and even golf clubs. Every one of those things is thoroughly screened, not just for bugs but for explosives and other dangers. the Secret Service is not an amateur group in any way, despite their lax patrolling of the White House at times.

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