Update [2006-5-10 12:14:24 by BooMan]: Wonkette has the video.
If I were the President I would be hopping mad about this. I’d also be a little concerned about my own safety.
How much do you think Osama bin Laden would pay to know exactly when and where the President was traveling, and who was with him? Turns out, he wouldn’t have had to pay a dime. All he had to do was go through the trash early Tuesday morning.
It appears to be a White House staff schedule for the President’s trip to Florida Tuesday. And a sanitation worker was alarmed to find in the trash long hours before Mr. Bush left for his trip.
Calling it a White House staff member’s schedule is a little misleading. Not just any staff member gets this level of detail. For example:
The documents details the exact arrival and departure time for Air Force One, Marine One and the back up choppers, Nighthawk 2 and Three.
It lists every passenger on board each aircraft, from the President to military attaché with nuclear football. It offers the order of vehicles in the President’s motorcade.
Some very high level White House official left these details in the trash where they were discovered by an ex-con custodian. Fortunately, Randy Hopkins is a patriotic guy, even if he doesn’t have a history of law-abidingness.
“I saw locations and names and places where the President was going to be. I knew it was important. And it shouldn’t have been in a trash hole like this,” he said.
“We’re going through a war, and if it would have fell into the wrong hands at the right time, it would have been something really messy for the President’s sake,” he said.
By the way, there is no point in having decoy helicopters and limousines if you are going to leave the details of which helicopter or limousine the President is going to be in in the trash where Lee Harvey Oswald Randy Hopkins can find them.
