Yeah sure the president is 100% safe :rolleyes:

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

A RIGHT ROYAL FIASCO
 
Nov 19 2003

By Ryan Parry
 
FOR the past eight weeks, I have enjoyed unfettered access throughout Buckingham Palace as one of the Royal Family’s key aides.

Had I been a terrorist intent on assassinating the Queen or President George Bush, I could have done so with absolute ease.

Indeed, this morning I would have been serving breakfast to key members of his government, including National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and US Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Such is the shocking incompetence at the heart of the biggest security operation ever in Britain.

Not once, from the moment I applied for my job as a footman to my walking out of the palace last night, did anyone ever perform anything close to a rigorous security check on my background.

Not once during the entire three- month operation did anyone ever search me or my bags as I came and went at Buckingham Palace.

On my first day I was given a full all-areas security pass and the traditional uniform of the Queen’s trusted aides that allowed me unquestioned access to every member of the royal family.

And within days of starting my job, I was even shown the secret hiding places for keys that will open the royal apartments.

From my small bedroom on the palace’s second floor, directly above the famous Picture Gallery and just yards from the Queen’s bedroom, plotting a devastating terrorist attack would have been simple.

Because I frequently had direct contact with the Queen’s food – delivering her tray was one of my tasks – I could have easily poisoned the monarch. And just days ago, as the supposedly impenetrable security was prepared for George Bush, I was able to wander at will through the rooms he and his wife will use during their stay, taking snaps of the bedroom they slept in last night.

I was also able to wander unchecked through Prince Andrew’s private apartment and those of the Earl and Countess of Wessex and Princess Anne. But most remarkable is the sheer ease by which I managed to win myself a job living and working in direct contact with the Queen – on the eve of the biggest security operation in British history.

IT began last August when I applied for a job as a royal footman advertised on a recruitment page of the Buckingham Palace official website.

I composed a CV – leaving out details of my journalistic career – with one real reference and one fake.

At one stage the palace even accepted a character reference over the telephone from a regular at the pub where I used to work as a barman.

Exposing my lies would have taken a simple check on the internet.

During my time at the palace I worked on a daily basis as a personal servant to the royals and served VIP guests and A-list celebrities. I was even invited to join the police gym.

Our investigation makes a mockery of the £10million security operation set up to protect the President.

I spent the early part of yesterday in a royal carriage with the Portuguese ambassador and other VIPs.

I left last night at 9.45pm, loading my gear into two holdalls. I walked out past two British armed guards, my heart pounding.

Then I stepped out into Buckingham Palace Road, unchecked and unchallenged for the last time.
 

Oooops!

Tony Blair and Oc have said...

"there was no risk to secuirty..."

Well they would say that at this time now would they

One of many embarrasments for Royal security, the last one being some reporter dressed as Osama Bin Laden getting into Williams party (which I personally though was a brilliant achievement).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3079154.stm

Edit : Actually he\'s not a reporter, he\'s a comedy terrorist.

list of royal security failures...

Man Dressed as Osama Bin Laden not only gains access but has a helping hand from one of the gaurd\'s
 
Gates covered in American Flag by 61 year old grand mother

and now ... Daily mirror reporter spends 2 months under cover with "free" rain to do anything he wanted... heck he even served the Queen Breckfast...

you just can\'t make this shizt up....

[Kurt Angle]

This guy isn\'t called Michael Fagin is he?

[Cerberus]

Isn\'t it nice that the newspapers do this for everyone elses benefit, and not to use to promote & sell their papers?

Originally posted by Cerberus
Isn\'t it nice that the newspapers do this for everyone elses benefit, and not to use to promote & sell their papers?

It doesn\'t matter what their motives were, the end result is the same, the proving that our royal security is bullshit.

[Cerberus]

Originally posted by Green Meanie
It doesn\'t matter what their motives were, the end result is the same, the proving that our royal security is bullshit.

Yeah, but in publicising it, they are showing others that threats to security are possible, you might find some crackpot trying it out for themselves. If they had conducted it privately, then passed their findings on to the appropriate people, then at a later date, when all the threat possibilties were seen to, then publish it, they could have been classed as acting in the public interest.

But, as always, the British press couldn\'t give a flying fcuk about royal security, they couldn\'t give 2 shits about ANYONES security, whether it\'s someone in the public eye, or someone private. They only care about one thing, and that\'s selling papers.

When they pulled this stunt, they did it for all the wrong reasons.