A terror plot at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration was so serious that a statement was written for the president-elect to speak from the Capitol steps informing the crowd to disperse, according to campaign strategist David Axelrod.
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“What if a bomb goes off on the National Mall during the President’s address? Is the Secret Service going to rush him off the podium with the whole world watching?” Clinton wrote. “I could see from the look on the faces of the Bush [national security] team that nobody had a good answer.”
