Hillary's New Security Threat

Today, in Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters in New Hampshire, some of the staff who worked there were held hostage by a middle-aged man, Lee Eisenberg, who was complaining that his insurance didn’t help him treat his mental problems. One of the hostages with an infant was released early, and she said that he had a bomb strapped to his chest. Later, it was found that he only had some flares strapped to his chest. This article is a more complete version of the story. [http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/30/clinton.office/index.html]

This is pretty shocking because I’ve never heard of an incident quite like this before. It’s strange to think that even the offices of our presidents-to-be are not free from the risk of something dramatic and potentially dangerous, like this incident. It made me wonder what the security around our presidential candidates was like now and how this incident would change it. This article gave me the answers to some of those questions [http://www.newsweek.com/id/73188/page/1]. In this interview with J. J. Funk, Funk said that this incident necessarily means that security will be or needs to be stepped up because this kind of incident was mostly a personal issue by a man who used Hillary’s absence and a public place to make a big statement and get some attention without directly endangering a political figure.