Posted on 09/30/2014 4:31:10 AM PDT by servo1969
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson will face questions about how an armed intruder jumped the White House fence and made it as far as the East Room when she testifies before a House committee on Tuesday.
Sources confirmed to Fox News on Monday that 42-year-old Omar Gonzalez overpowered a Secret Service officer in the Sept. 19 incident -- this led to a struggle and "wrestling" inside the executive mansion as he darted through. Gonzalez was eventually tackled by a counter-assault agent in the East Room after he reached the doorway to the Green Room, a parlor overlooking the South Lawn.
The revelation that the intruder made it much farther than originally known came on the eve of a scheduled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing that will address the breach, as well as lawmakers' "concerns" about the Secret Service's security protocols.
A series of what one source called "catastrophic" security failures apparently allowed the intruder to get deep into the White House.
The Secret Service did not follow basic protocols during the incident to protect the White House, the president and the first family and the agency still does not know why, a source intimately familiar with details of the investigation told Fox News.
For example, the Secret Service didn't lock down certain areas of the property and did not elevate the threat level at the White House so that other uniformed officers and agents would know what was happening, which is a standard response.
“This was a catastrophic failure when the President was not there. What if the president was there?” the source, a longtime Secret Service insider, added. "It turns out that basic functions in place to avoid this were never initiated."
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"Sources confirmed to Fox News on Monday that 42-year-old Omar Gonzalez overpowered a female Secret Service officer in the Sept. 19 incident -- this led to a struggle and "wrestling" inside the executive mansion as he darted through. Gonzalez was eventually tackled by a male counter-assault agent in the East Room after he reached the doorway to the Green Room, a parlor overlooking the South Lawn."
All I can say is - "A fish rots from the head down."
Nice hair.
Wouldn’t have happened if there was a guy at the door, huh? And the fact that the door was unlocked and the alarm turned off at the White House Usher’s request had nothing to do with it.
Why didn't she just knock him cold like we see in the movies and TV?
WHOA!
Didn’t there used to be Marines standing guard at those doors?
There would be a huge smoking hole in the side of the White House right now if the guy had blown himself up.
The nerve of some people.
Didn’t there used to be Marines standing guard at those doors?
I think they are only used as umbrella holders for the king now.
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Heard this am, that Gonzalez was also disabled to some extent. Lost part of his foot in Iraq.
Maybe the guard being female contributed to how far he got, maybe it didn’t.
I can tell you this, though- it didn’t help.
“nice hair”.... on which one?
“There would be a huge smoking hole in the side of the White House right now if the guy had blown himself up.”
Oh the muzzies are salivating at this intrusion incident. I bet they are already planning a copycat act, this time with a few pounds of C4 strapped to the body.
The one closest to the camera. I admit in advance that my comment was unkind. Mea culpa.
What if the President was there? Is there going to be a fund raiser or golf outing?
I think this is BS. I think it’s intentional.
I think they want the property all around the White House and this is their slick little operation to make that happen.
In ‘fast & furious’ they sold guns to drug cartels so they could trace the guns back to US gun shops and change the 2nd amendment.
If they’d run that operation, then this has all the earmarks on an operation.
Maybe they were working on their latte salute.
What is clear, is that they could do it if they wished.
Sequential suicide bombers. First blows a hole in the fence, then a pack of them pour through the hole and gang rush the doors, blowing open entrences as they go. They’ve used that tactic before, both with people and cars.
Until now, I thought the SS had a plan to deal with that.
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I think you're right. Their story absolutely stinks.
>> Where did this Omar Gonzalez guy get the idea he could just jump a fence
ROFLMAO.
Whatever one rewards, one gets more of.
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