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
She’ll take the fifth, just like Lois Lerner did
Madame Director sure doesn’t seem very bright. She appeared so dull I wondered if she was on Valium. I would have thought that for such an important position they’d hire the brightest, the sharpest, the best. What do I know!
There is a simple explanation that has not been stated anywhere that I have seen: No investigation was ever conducted, even after evidence was found.
The first, maybe the only, qualification for employment by the Obama administration is the willingness to mouth the most preposterous BS to justify whatever the WH says is the position of the moment and to be able to shamelessly spout the opposite the next minute when the WH position changes.
I can hardly name a third. What do you think?
This is SOP for the beltway. Look around. They've got people writing regulations on gunsmithing that have never turned a tap in their lives. The idea that you should actually have experience in whatever it is you're managing is foreign to them.
This “I take full responsibility” mantra has always mystified me. I think next time I get stopped for speeding I’ll try that out on the officer. It supposed to have something magical about it.
Secret Service morale is probably lower now than it was when Hillary Flying Buttress was the Queen of Hearts in the WH.
They’re dispirited, get treated like dirt by Moochelle, so why is any of this surprising at all?
The only explanation that makes any sense at all. The SS is putting the Obama family out there like pie pans at a shooting gallery. Things must be far, far worse than we're being led to believe. Typical. Can't wait for the tell all books to hit the shelves in 2016.
I keep going back to that State Dept security analyst testifying on Benghazi when he said: " The Taliban is in the wire"
When I heard the woman talking without seeing the TV I imagined another burly (unmarried to a man) type woman. Sure enough, Whn I could see her, no wedding ring, kinda rough sounding, typical code pink lib.
Clearly she is not at all up to the job, just another leftist hack like lois lerner who is more intereted in politicizing the SS than actually doing the job.
I still think the SOB is trying to martyr himself. The 69th imam always comes back.
Look at the head on that thing!
No P-T test for government police types?
What scares the hell out of me is that they might let the mulato get killed! I fear not for the loss of him, but for what will become of America if he is allowed to be martyred and the greater power the despisers of our Republic will gain through it.
Question: why does Pierson still have her job?
I know one thing.
If I ever mess up I DO NOT want Trey Gowdy interviewing me.
He’s awesome.
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Isn’t the name of the 2011 shooter Gonzalez just like the fence jumper is Gonzalez??
That is correct. I don’t know if it is the same person or not, but with this administration it would not surprise me
I can’t find one story with any BACKGROUND on these two guys anywhere!!!! WHY hasn’t Fox or someone else on the right looked into these two Gonzalezes??
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