Having been to DC, and walked the entire circle around the White House....I can say that I have a better prospective about this now. The structure itself.....is one of the most protected sites in America....yet one of the most viewed sites in America.
I'd take a guess that well over forty-thousand people will walk around the front or back on an average week-day. In August, on a Saturday....there's probably 200,000 people who will come by tour bus or just walk by the front or back.
In essence, it just isn't an easy site to offer protection. There's the fence, and there's roughly three-hundred feet of open ground that you have to make your way through....to find a dozen-odd guards standing there with machine-guns ready to greet you.
What I expect to eventually to occur....some Jihad group will figure some innovative way to get into the place before they are stopped. At that point, the Secret Service will stand up and admit the location is not working. Yeah....we might actually see them suggest moving the President to a new White House....some secluded mountain valley in central Virginia....with triple the number of security personnel and moats as part of the design.
It might be a decade away.....maybe two decades away. But this open-access environment that exists there......will eventually prove to be a bigger problem than they are willing to accept.
