The fateful drone (Reuters/U.S. Secret Service) Early in the morning of Monday, January 26, a small, recreational, helicopter-type drone crashed on White House grounds. It was an accident—an employee of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency had been drinking at a friend’s apartment nearby. According to CNN, “he was demonstrating the drone to a woman who was also in the apartment.” Booze, women, boys’s toys: It was all too much.