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Secret Service director resigns
New York Post ^ | 10/1/14 | Geoff Earle

Posted on 10/01/2014 12:23:26 PM PDT by pabianice

Edited on 10/01/2014 1:27:15 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON – Secret Service boss Julia Pierson suddenly resigned Wednesday — a day after getting hammered in Congress over troubling White House security breaches.

“Today Julia Pierson, the Director of the United States Secret Service, offered her resignation, and I accepted it,” said Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon.

Johnson named as acting director of the troubled agency Joseph Clancy, the former Special Agent in Charge of the division that overseas protection of the president and his family.

Pierson came under intense fire over a stunning security breach Sept. 19, when armed Iraq war veteran Omar Gonzalez jumped the White House fence, sprinted across the lawn and made it past the front door and inside the White House while carrying a small knife.

Early Wednesday, powerful lawmakers from both parties called on her to go.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the Government Oversight Committee – and normally an administration defender — told MSNBC Wednesday he does “not feel comfortable with her in that position.”

Excerpt, read the rest at New York Post


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; juliapierson; pierson; secretservice; securitybreachesrus
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1 posted on 10/01/2014 12:23:26 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice

Good riddance. A political hack and/or an Affirmative Action hire?


2 posted on 10/01/2014 12:24:27 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (STOP flights and immigration from HOT Zones . . .NOW)
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To: pabianice

Good Bye


3 posted on 10/01/2014 12:24:27 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: pabianice

Well.

Bye!


4 posted on 10/01/2014 12:24:33 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: pabianice

We knew this was gonna happen. The heads must roll............


5 posted on 10/01/2014 12:24:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: pabianice

http://clashdaily.com/2014/10/administration-desperately-courting-george-zimmerman-replace-floundering-lesbian-secret-service-director/


6 posted on 10/01/2014 12:25:26 PM PDT by IChing
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To: pabianice

Perhaps she’ll just be given another high-level administration job for which she is incompetent. That seems to be the MO for 0bama appointees.


7 posted on 10/01/2014 12:25:49 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: pabianice

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Secret Service Director Julia Pierson has resigned, Homeland Security Jeh Johnson announced.


8 posted on 10/01/2014 12:26:09 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: pabianice

More... she was an incompetent in an impossible position... affirmative action hire... Obama and Congress had “full faith in her” this morning ... the convict with the gun in an elevator with Obama was the last straw...


9 posted on 10/01/2014 12:26:09 PM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: pabianice

The perp.

10 posted on 10/01/2014 12:26:50 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: pabianice

It’s the corrupt government culture. The fish rots from the head.


11 posted on 10/01/2014 12:27:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Too bad her boss won’t resign.


12 posted on 10/01/2014 12:27:25 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: pabianice

One of the biggest problems with socialists is since they believe success is luck, that any one person can do the job of any other with the right access and training.

So they stick a hack in a position where results matter and as a result, failure occurs.


13 posted on 10/01/2014 12:27:28 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: pabianice

Her head resigned, but what about the rest of her?


14 posted on 10/01/2014 12:28:27 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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15 posted on 10/01/2014 12:28:41 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: pabianice

Good now Obama can appoint another incompetent hack.
Trickle down crap administration.


16 posted on 10/01/2014 12:28:44 PM PDT by FreedomGuru (Time for torches and pitchforks.)
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To: fishtank

Look at that stare into her eyes - one homo to another....


17 posted on 10/01/2014 12:29:20 PM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: fishtank

She had to go due to “poor optics”
in an election year.
Plus she was incompetent.


18 posted on 10/01/2014 12:29:47 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: pabianice

It was either resign or her head was gonna roll. And since Barry was raised a Muslim . . .

Only joking.


19 posted on 10/01/2014 12:30:45 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: pabianice
I've been torn on this issue...half of me says, oblala could be at risk due to Secret Service shortcomings? What does it matter?!?!?!

Then again, the last thing the leftists need is a martyr.

20 posted on 10/01/2014 12:30:55 PM PDT by dware (3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
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