Remember the Cone of Silence from the TV show Get Smart. Whenever Max needed to be sure no one was listening in, the Cone of Silence would drop over him. Well guess what folks – the silly TV show was more prescient than we’d imagined. It has now been revealed that when the president travels, he travels with a tent that can be erected anywhere and into which he goes when he needs to have private communications that can’t be bugged. The tent blocks or scrambles anything trying to listen in. The imagined Cone of Silence has become the real Tent of Silence. Oh my.