just saw on m$nbc: 'motorcade controversy'

[spanone]

now there's a controversy about the people hired to drive in the Presidential motorcades....this security stuff scares the bejeesus out of me.

people hired 'with little training' to drive white house staff & photographers in the motorcades.

alex whit show this am.

googled and found nothing.

[Sheldon Cooper]

1. It's from the Daily Mail, so take it for what it's worth.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2887413/Here-s-President-s-plane-carefree-Facebook-pictures-Obama-motorcade-driver-24-admits-no-security-training-never-driven-van-stunned-trust-drive.html

There are between 20 and 30 cars that make up the official motorcade of the President of the United States - a security procession that travels, usually at high speeds and with green-light corridors, with the commander-in-chief everywhere he goes.

A 24-year-old California student has now revealed how she was selected as one of many volunteer drivers to be part of that chain of vehicles, 'following Obama all over San Francisco' for a day - despite having no experience, no training and, in what experts have called the most troubling, no idea what to do in an emergency.

Natalie Tyson even read a college textbook while waiting for the convoy to get back on the road, and posted pictures to her Facebook of the October experience, one of which was captioned: 'Me, wondering why anyone would trust me with a 15-passenger van full of reporters.'

Tyson said that one week before President Obama arrived in San Francisco on October 10, a friend who works at the White House texted her asking if she would be willing to drive a van full of reporters as part of the procession.

She told him she had never driven a van, but had driven a pick-up truck. She also said she had a clean driving record, no criminal history and would be willing to take on the job.

A week later she was on the tarmac at San Francisco International Airport waiting for Air Force One to touch down.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. OMG! They let a responsible 24 year old with a clean driving record drive a van?????

Monsters!!!!!

[spanone]

4. thanks for the link...why is msnbc reporting from the daily mail? yikes.

[yeoman6987]

5. I want the President safe, but the environment

Is not happy about all those emissions.

[uncle ray]

7. I, too was recently offered a job i wasn't qualified for.

i turned it down.

[Downwinder]

2. Uberization?

[NightWatcher]

6. Who gives a shit if the press van driver doesn't have secret agent driver training?

She's not driving POTUS or the nuclear football around. She's at the back of the line schlepping press members around.

[Ilsa]

8. Exactly what I thought. The press vehicles are in the

Back of the motorcade anyway.