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...Trebek asked Schleicher, who is co-president of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, about the organization during the contestant interview segment of the show...
...women charged with making sure nothing bad happens, that kind of debate is a luxury. Listen in as Air Force General Victor Renuart describes what sounds like top-secret war planning. "Our Chemical Response Force will be on alert," he says, describing what some of the 11,500 troops who are assigned inaugural duties will be doing on Jan. 20. "We'll use our NORAD [North American Aerospace Defense Command] forces to increase the air-defense presence in the area," he adds. Renuart, chief of the post-9/11 U.S. Northern Command, is responsible for defending the U.S. from attack...
...Despite the fleets and armadas, the U.S. military is playing only a supporting role in providing inaugural security. The Secret Service, charged with protecting the President-elect and his family, is calling the shots. In addition to the military, the agency will be reinforced by some 8,000 police officers, many of whom will begin pulling 12-hour shifts directing traffic and patrolling downtown starting Friday. The D.C. police department is helping nervous companies by posting on its website a list of more than 50 licensed security firms that have declared they "are available for entities seeking security assistance...
...Meanwhile, the Secret Service has infuriated Virginians just across the Potomac River by ordering all five bridges linking the state and capital closed to private cars on Inauguration Day. They say it's necessary to minimize congestion in the capital, but not everyone agrees. "The Secret Service, they're insane," James Moran, a Virginian Democratic Congressman, told the Washington Post about the agency's decision. "This is security on steroids." He fought - and succeeded in reversing - a Secret Service decision to bar pedestrians from the 14th Street bridge, which would give walkers the closest access to the Inauguration. However, major...
...Obama, who is expected to give his inaugural address from behind a bulletproof shield, will be able to ride along the 1.7-mile parade route in his brand-new heavily armored Cadillac limousine. He'll be shadowed by Secret Service vans crammed with heavily armed SWAT teams and electronic-warfare gear capable of jamming detonators designed to set off certain explosives. Electronic devices - like those already in use in the D.C. subway - will be used above ground, to sniff the air for biological or chemical agents. They'll be aided by at least four Army dogs that will be sniffing...