Secret Service Wants a Fake White House to Help Protect the Real One

NYT ^ | 17 Mar 2015 | MICHAEL D. SHEAR

[shove_it]

WASHINGTON — Stung by accusations that it cannot adequately protect the White House, the Secret Service wants to spend $8 million to build another White House in Beltsville, Md.

In prepared testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Joseph P. Clancy, the director of the Secret Service, on Tuesday will urge lawmakers to give him money to build a detailed replica of the White House to aid in training officers and agents to protect the real thing. Beltsville, about 20 miles from the real White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, is the site of a 500-acre Secret Service training site in the verdant terrain of Southern Maryland...

[shove_it]

Deploy a company of MPs with K9s to patrol the perimeter fence which is already well extended from the WH. Also add a platoon of Marine snipers on the roof with orders to fire for effect on any trespassers who breach the perimeter.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Hollywood already has a bunch of those they could probably pick up cheap.

[longfellow]

Goes along with the fake president

[brownsfan]

Can you imagine the parties they could have at their own replica White House?!

[defconw]

Maybe if they would simply stop drinking and whoring on the job, they could figure it out?

[Pollster1]

There might eventually be someone worth protecting in the White House. When that happens, given the thugs who will oppose a real president, we’ll want good Secret Service training.

[mountainlion]

Can you imagine the parties they could have at their own replica White House?!

Monica reenactment

[Slyfox]

This is so stupid.

They can't figure out how to do their jobs inside the real White House that they need an exact copy in which to learn how to lock a front door?

[Army Air Corps]

Hookers by the bus load!

[gaijin]

Oh SURE, just throw MONEY at the problem.

Uh-huh.

[cripplecreek]

We waste more money by 9 am than most people waste all day.

[FirstFlaBn]

The federal gubermint couldn’t build a two seater outhouse for $8 million if the hole was already dug.

[Boogieman]

Plus, maybe they could throw in Channing Tatum too as part of the deal.

[ßuddaßudd]

Is anything really what it appears to be?

[PGR88]

And people wonder how China’s emporers came to live in a completely closed city with 50’ walls by themselves

[Leaning Right]

By the way, if this is approved, who believes that it will end up costing “only” $8,000,000?

[Alex Murphy]

Stung by accusations that it cannot adequately protect the White House, the Secret Service wants to spend $8 million to build another White House in Beltsville, Md.

Sort of like a decoy, to confuse attacks on the real thing? Sounds like something out of a Road Runner cartoon. Just get a bigger one of these, and stand it up in front of the real one:

White House Cardboard Cutout Standup Prop

[rdl6989]

For some reason I assumed they already had a mockup of the White House at Quantico VA, but I guess not.

[shadeaud]

Fire em all and hire more IRS agents. That’ll cure the problem

[Faith65]

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