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...Breach of Security
...action at all. The show departed from its usual action-packed plotlines and dizzyingly quick camera movements in favor of a much more subdued pace. The bulk of the episode takes place in a single room. There has been a ‘crash’ or a security breach that calls for a lockdown on the whole West Wing. By chance, a group of high school students who have won the opportunity to participate in Presidential Classroom are in the building. They are secured in the office’s cafeteria along with Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman...
...didactic series, but it took finally the urgency of the recent news events for Aaron Sorkin to write an episode that was literally didactic - that is, teacherly - by setting it in what was for all intents and purposes a classroom. The set-up: in response to a reported security breach, the White House "crashes" - no one is allowed to enter or leave - just as aide Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford) is speaking to a class of honor students...
...keeps the building that way, is following President George W. Bush's exhortation to keep life normal. "We're going after the cobwebs we miss when we get too busy," he declared He has learned to live with all the recent attempts - by private plane, truck and individual - to breach White House security. He is on that front line...
From December 1998 to April 1999, Transportation Department investigators managed to breach airport security on 117 of 173 tries, a frightening 68% success rate--in some cases making it all the way to a seat on board just before takeoff. Investigators deliberately set off 25 emergency-exit alarms, only to find almost half of them ignored. They accomplished all this, according to the Inspector General's findings, with apparent ease, "piggybacking employees through doors, riding unguarded elevators, walking through concourse doors, gates and jet-bridges...and cargo facilities unchallenged, and driving through unmanned vehicle gates." The massive amount of construction...