re: #192 MandyManners

You might want to see No. 179.

I am just giving you a perspective from one of the top counter insurgency bloggers in the world…who also thinks that there are parallels with what happened in Israel.

Figures?

Liars figure and figures lie. I do not know what the actual data looks like.

This quote was interesting, however.

“The threats right now … is the same level as it has been for the previous two presidents at this point in their administrations,” Sullivan said.

Interesting how he parsed that “right now…”. It echos a news report last month that threats against the President were falling off since last summer.

According to one widely circulated elaboration on Kessler’s reporting published in August by London’s Daily Telegraph, this means that Obama has been facing 30 death threats each day. In March, Secret Service chief Mark Sullivan told a House Appropriations subcommittee that threats to individuals protected by the Secret Service “remain at high levels.”

Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told NEWSWEEK that those figures are now out of date. According to Donovan, there were “substantial spikes” in the rate of threats the service received against Obama before and after last year’s presidential election, and then again before and after Obama’s inauguration last January. Over succeeding months, however, the rate of threats has dropped substantially, Donovan said—so substantially that while the average number of threats received is running at about the same level as it did during the presidencies of George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, on some recent days the rate of threats received against Obama has actually been lower than the rate during the reigns of Clinton and W.

blog.newsweek.com

I wouldn’t be so quick out of the gate saying that the increased threat level last summer was an urban legend. It appears there was a bell curve (of sorts) with a rise in threats that has now dropped off. Again, read just how Sullivan phrases his statement before the committee. That was no accident.