 Maybe I just want to think that because I don't want to believe that our government would hatch some plan to kill a would-be president and use some 20-year-old idiot. This isn't the way you would do that. Usually incompetence explains it. Negligence, as you said. National Review's got a great piece yesterday on the Secret Service. Now, it's behind a paywall, so if you're not a subscriber like I am,