Isn't that why we have secret service agents? Were they asleep? What if that "bird" was trained by al qaeda to release a deadly poison on our Commander in Chief? What if it was a remotely piloted vehicle cleverly built to look like a bird? Congress may need to look at establishing a Department of Bird Control to deal with this new terror threat. Probably 45, 000 employees and a $800 billion budget should be enough to get it off the ground.