Posted on 10/02/2014 8:36:55 AM PDT by upbeat5
Behind the shocking revelations of incompetence and unprofessionalism that rocked the Secret Service this week is a longtime reporter who has been diligently uncovering the agency's secrets for years.
Carol Leonnig, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who has worked at The Washington Post for nearly 15 years, has broken almost every single story on the agency, a series of shocking reports that on Wednesday resulted in the abrupt resignation of Secret Service Director Julia Pierson. (Pierson called the resignation “painful.”)
In less than a week, Leonnig uncovered three scandals that pushed the agency’s first female leader out the door. First, she reported that Secret Service agents failed to respond for days when a gunman shot the White House residence seven times with a semi-automatic rifle in 2011, smashing a window while Sasha Obama was home. (At first the agency thought the noise was from a car backfiring; then they believed the bullets were from a gang fight they theorized must have occurred on the White House lawn.)
Leonnig also reported that a knife-wielding man who jumped the White House fence weeks ago made it all the way to the door of the Green Room before an off-duty officer tackled him. The man made it much farther into the building than the agency initially admitted.
Lawmakers pummeled Pierson on Tuesday with Leonnig’s reporting at a House Oversight Committee hearing on the agency’s security failures. After the hearing, Leonnig broke the news that President Obama recently rode an elevator with an armed felon who was acting strange. It’s unclear if the president was immediately informed of the security breach. Pierson announced her resignation the next day.
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SS supervisors who had mapped out the security plan said they were taken aback-------b/c Pierson, who worked during high school at Walt Disney World as a costumed character and park attendant, told them: “We need to be more like Disney World.......more friendly, inviting.”
The reporterette needs to be investigating Bammy.........
At least in the major news outlets, it appears Carol Leonnig, is one of the last of a dying breed, if not the very last.
Well, at least she was one incompetent fool who knew she was in over or head and resigned. In the pecking order of incompetence in this administration, she is pretty far from the top unfortunately.
“Pierson, who worked during high school at Walt Disney World as a costumed character and park attendant, told them: “We need to be more like Disney World.......more friendly, inviting.”
That’s funny. But makes sense when you realize that “progressives” live in a warped fantasy world.
Take note, mainstream journalists; this administration is ripe for the picking. Incompetence abounds and you too can write the story that busts something wide open. Woodward and Bernstein would be salivating over the possibilities. There’s room for all of you so pick an agency and go to town. May I suggest starting at State?
Enjoy your 25 years of tax audits!
Did you forget that the mainstream journalists are charter members of the Obama worship team?
gang fight on the white house lawn. Wow this is more serious than I thought. Maybe we should move the capital to Utah.
Unreal.Like they wouldn’t know.
The troubles start at the top. The man who expects less of you will get less from you.
obama has presided over the greatest intentional diminution of our country since the founding. He has gotten what he set out to get.
When this is all over Marie Harf will have a great career as a voice actor in the cartoons.
I wonder, does harf think the glasses make her look studious, knowledgeable, informed, perhaps.
They make her look like a caricature. Her words clinch the image.
Carol, there’s much work yet to be done and many soft targets of opportunity. Don’t rest on your laurels. Get to work.
Continuing the tradition of journalists. Like Rush says, no resume of a journalist is complete without noting who they “took down”. Lucky for us, this time it was a Democrat appointee.
I wish they’d turn it up on the whole admin, but that will have to remain a wish.
she loves bamster and hates who the irs went after. hence the reporting choices.
When do we get "actors" walking around D.C. wearing giant foam-rubber heads of famous politicians?
Poor Ms. Pierson, only thing she has to look forward to is her golden parachute at JP Morgan for $millions and millions a year.
Oh the pain.
By the way has anyone see Monica Lewinsky and this chick in the same room?
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