Secret Service stops weapons screening at Obama rally

This is really rather troubling. The Secret Service apparently ordered the Texas police to stop screening people attending an Obama rally for weapons:

DALLAS -- Security details at Barack Obama's rally Wednesday stopped screening people for weapons at the front gates more than an hour before the Democratic presidential candidate took the stage at Reunion Arena.

The order to put down the metal detectors and stop checking purses and laptop bags came as a surprise to several Dallas police officers who said they believed it was a lapse in security.

Dallas Deputy Police Chief T.W. Lawrence, head of the Police Department's homeland security and special operations divisions, said the order -- apparently made by the U.S. Secret Service -- was meant to speed up the long lines outside and fill the arena's vacant seats before Obama came on.

Maybe the campaign asked them to do this, who knows? But, we all know that Obama is probably the most likely candidate to be targeted by the nut cases out there, so I would think everyone would want to be extra careful in his case.

Update: John Aravosis at Americablog tells us his readers tell him this is happening everywhere.