The Ballroom as Bunker: What This Tells Us About National Security Priorities The recent White House shooting has highlighted the administration's tendency to conflate national security with partisan politics.
A Department of Justice filing invoked the incident in an attempt to persuade a federal judge to dismiss an injunction against constructing a new ballroom on the White House grounds, which the DOJ describes as a "National Security Facility.
" This facility would provide a safe haven from attackers like the one who fired at a Secret Service checkpoint last weekend.