There are a lot of elements to this Air Force One story. 1.) Why was this leaked? Seems treasonous to publicly disclose methods for preventing the president from being assassinated. Now the Secret Service will have a more difficult time using this method to protect any president. 2.) The media are attempting to turn a dramatic story about protecting the president from yet another assassination attempt into an anti-Trump scandal about how the *MEDIA* are actually the victims of this tale. This is precisely the nonsense that has destroyed trust in media. 3.) If you're flying on an Air Force jet as a part of a presidential delegation, you are not just some sitting duck. You're literally being protected by the United States military. The fact that the Secret Service developed an additional layer of protection for the president doesn't mean nobody else is being protected. 4.) WaPo is now admitting this same protection technique was used for Bill Clinton in 2000, with the addition of a body double. The media were on the trip. Is that a scandal, too? Or only when Trump is protected this way? 5.) WaPo claims the Clinton story is different because a single reporter was alerted off the record. We know that now because the reporter just broke the agreement to share that detail. How do we know that didn't happen here? Presumably, an honored off-record agreement would preclude us from knowing that. There's a lot of typical silly scandalmongering around this story, but there's also some very concerning security leaks going on that only make the president more vulnerable.