Posted on 10/01/2014 5:52:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
Yesterday Secret Service Director Julia Pierson fielded questions from furious and skeptical lawmakers after a number of serious failures by the agency to properly protect the President. Pierson started her testimony by saying she "takes full responsibility" for the failures, especially the most recent incident of fence jumper Omar Gonzales making it all the way inside the White House, but failed to answer a number of questions.
Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy questioned Pierson on a shooting incident that occurred at the White House in 2011. Pierson failed to provide adequate answers as to why that incident was first classified as simply backfire from a car after agents drew their weapons, smelled gun powder and why it was left to a housekeeper to find broken glass and evidence of a shooting. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez was eventually arrested for the shooting. More background:
A federal judge in Washington sentenced Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez on Monday.
Prosecutors had asked he spend 27 1/2 years in prison for the shooting. No one was injured, but prosecutors say Ortega-Hernandez hit the executive mansion about eight times and did nearly $100,000 in damage.
Ortega-Hernandez's lawyers argued he was suffering from extreme depression and mental stress at the time of the shooting and was under the misguided belief that Armageddon was coming. They asked for a 10-year sentence.
Gowdy asked Pierson to explain why a housekeeper was able to find evidence of a shooting while agents failed to search the premise. Pierson responded by saying the incident occurred at night and that "it's difficult to see at night."
Trey Gowdy GRILLS Secret Service Director Julia Pierson. Secret Service Hearing
Seems to me one explanation of the security failure is that the Service, and many others, could care less about this president’s safety.
Oh Oscar, Oscar, Oscar.
I’m wondering how many are stoned while on duty.
I sure wish he’d get to interrogate Holder under oath at some point over Fast and Furious.
Now that we know who is “fully responsible”, cleaning house is easy
what does someone have to do to get fired by Obama? Is it more important to him to have a gay female SS director than to protect his own kids?
Julia Pierson, yet another failed chapter in the affirmative action playbook.
It would be anticlimactic...either he would refuse to answer of plead the 5th. He’s a greasing weasel lawyer after all.
Fire her d*** a**.
“she “takes full responsibility” for the failures”
Whenever a Rat “takes full responsibility”, they mean that they expect there to be no repercussions (other than a little scolding by Congress) at all to them.
She was pathetic yesterday. If I were Obola and my life and especially the life of my family depended on the people this person supervises, her phone would have been ringing as she stood up to leave the hearing with the message to “head straight for my office .... and bring your resignation with you”. But Obola doesn’t fire anyone for incompetence - figured this might be an exception since his family was involved, but I guess not.
It would give me hope that this country might survive if SOME agents don’t care about the president’s safety. But I doubt the director fits in that category.
The director came out of human resources. A “career manager”. In other words, a bean counter. Why can’t they pick someone from the operational side to run it...someone who has carried the gun and the real accountability. I was in a sales organization for 30 years, the people who ran it all started as a salesman. They knew the day to day rigors. Then a CEO put his buddy into the top slot...a lawyer.,.who didn’t know a sale from a sail. 6 years later the company was sold, it was failing (the lawyer made a pile of money in the way out). Now the company no longer exists. My point is, put people in charge who have personally experiences day to day accountability...not someone from human resources that thinks they know what’s good for the workers. In this case she headed up training? No wonder we have a problem if the secret service personnel are trained by an HR person.
Almost every government agency is a money-wasting group of tenured incompetent bureaucrats.
That’s why we need more big government. /s
Incompetent govt. bureaucrats might admit “mistakes were made” — always the passive voice, with no names named — and that they “take full responsibility.” The problem is none of them is ever held “accountable” and fired, impeached/convicted, prosecuted criminally, or sued civilly. They just complain about their department or agency not having enough taxpayer money, people, or power, which is laughable given the almost unimaginable bloat and reach of federal, state, and local govts. It’s all beyond disgusting.
No need to head to the office, I am sure they have resignations signed but undated for all.
Following incompetence in this administration is akin to following a blood line from a poisonous bite. As in all roads lead to Rome, all incompetence in this bunch begins at the road’s terminous: His Excellency.
In 2010, Congress cut the White House budget for flashlights.
I’m more interested in Omar Gonzales. Obama has decided to promote this woman and he loves surrounding himself with homosexuals, radicals, and incompetents so there is no surprise with her.
I have a feeling we won’t hear much about Omar Gonzales because there are too many things that do not work for the PC optics.
My thought too
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