Wow, we're kind of embarrassed to admit that when we first read this article about how "the Chronicle" exposed a major security breach on the President's Air Force One, we automatically assumed it was the Houston Chronicle. But no! It's our very own hometown rag! Sorry we doubted!
So the Chron (our Chron, not the Bozeman (MT) Chronicle) was poking around online last week and found a webpage online that listed all of Air Force One's secret security defenses -- and, for good measure, also listed exactly where you'd need to send a bomb to blow up the plane's oxygen tank. Yikes! (Before you morbid types go clicking, the Chron decided not to publish the actual url of the page; the link we have is just to the news article itself.)
The Chron promptly notified the White House and Andrews Air Base (where Air Force One is based), but, troublingly, no one ever took the webpage down. They notified them again before they ran the original story on Saturday, but the page wasn't removed from public access until Monday. Anonymous sources at the Pentagon report that the higher-ups aren't too happy about the mix-up either. They're rethinking their web-based policies now.
