Posted on 09/30/2014 3:26:00 PM PDT by jazusamo
An armed security contractor with a criminal background was allowed in an elevator with President Obama earlier this month, according to reports , adding to a string of security breaches plaguing the Secret Service.
The member of a private security firm was on an elevator with Obama during the president's trip to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Sept. 16.
The man did not comply with agents who told him to stop filming the president on the elevator. Only when a supervisor for the private security firm came over to address the situation did the agents realize the man had a gun, according to the the reports.
The man, who was not identified, had three prior convictions for assault and battery, according to the Washington Post.
“You have a convicted felon within arm’s reach of the president and they never did a background check,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told the newspaper.
“Words aren’t strong enough for the outrage I feel for the safety of the President and his family.”
Chaffetz has been a leader in pushing for greater accountability from the Secret Service which has seen a number of embarrassing security mishaps in recent years.
The CDC incident is likely to raise further questions about Secret Service security protocols.
The House Oversight Committee held a hearing Tuesday to probe how a man was able to jump the White House fence and make it well inside the building before being stopped in an incident earlier this month.
Director Julia Pierson said she accepted “full responsibility” and was reviewing the agency’s practices.
Chaffetz also tweeted about the elevator incident on Tuesday. "Security contractor with a gun next to the President happened two weeks ago, according to my whistleblower," he wrote.
Why not? He'd be a whole lot easier to defeat than Ms H. Rodham Clinton
The SS went to the contractor’s home and shot his dog.
Are these SS officers qualified and trained or are they just friends of friends of Valerie Jarret who needed a job? Or maybe they just don’t like Obama.
>>I hear you but it shouldn’t make a difference and I’m no fan of 0bama.<<
Agreed — they are protecting the office, not the person.
But humans still react based on subconscious impulses...
I’ve read several articles and so far the contractor hasn’t been named.
It shouldn’t.
LOL! You’re probably right, idiot Biden can’t do anything right.
Having read a lot of articles on this intrusion, I still have a nagging question: Don’t they lock the front door of the place?
Did you see what they did to address the fence?
Put bicycle racks in front of it!
Bicycle racks!
Thanks.
Things are getting curiouser and curiouser.
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Would he have been one of obamas sons?
If the convictions were all plea bargained down to misdemeanors, he's not a felon.
Because he probably was never convicted of a felony.
Maybe 0 has a plan to activate his own elite private army to protect him and, of course, to have built a very imposing new fence around the White House.
Yep, tied together with nylon ties.
They’re just itching to shut down the area around the WH to the public.
White Hut fence =” 7.5
Buckingham Palace? 15’
Well, that would enhance the Mooch's electoral prospects. Nothing like the sympathy vote to propel a widow in to high office.
That part gets me over and over, they forget to lock the front door?
I often forget to lock it at night, and sometimes forget to close it for a day or two at a time, but this isn’t the house of the president.
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