{"id":10682,"date":"2015-04-20T07:52:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T12:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10682"},"modified":"2015-04-20T08:04:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:04:34","slug":"video-homeland-security-chairman-gyrocopter-pilot-was-going-postal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/04\/20\/video-homeland-security-chairman-gyrocopter-pilot-was-going-postal\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Homeland Security chairman: Gyrocopter pilot was \u2018going postal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Sunday that last week&#8217;s gyrocopter incident exposed a security concern around the nation&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It exposes a vulnerability that the terrorists, I think, can exploit,&#8221; McCaul said on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think part of the problem is these small, ultralight aircraft are very difficult to detect, can fly under the radar as this one did, or even the small UAV devices [drones], like the one we saw that was landed in the back yard of the White House. That is the real threat,&#8221; McCaul said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this case, the guy was just going postal,&#8221; McCaul said on ABC, referring to the mailman who piloted the small aircraft, Doug Hughes, 61, who was said to be delivering letters to Congress. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/homeland-security-chair-gyrocopter-pilot-literally-going-postal\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ix_g1AfSY1o\" width=\"475\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Homeland-Security-on-Gyrocopter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10685\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Homeland-Security-on-Gyrocopter-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Homeland Security on Gyrocopter\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Homeland-Security-on-Gyrocopter-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Homeland-Security-on-Gyrocopter.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Sunday that last week&#8217;s gyrocopter incident exposed a security concern around the nation&#8217;s capital. &#8220;It exposes a vulnerability that the terrorists, I think, can exploit,&#8221; McCaul said on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week.&#8221; &#8220;I think part of the problem is these small, ultralight aircraft are very difficult to detect, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10682"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10689,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682\/revisions\/10689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}