My guess is one reason is the SS likes to have people to interrogate for assassination attempts or likely assassination attempt. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't SOP to try and capture and not kill the assailants.
Another thought it, the poor women represented an altogether different threat to Obama.
Maybe a lot of agents were punished for overreacting in that case, so the unspoken message went out, “don’t shoot?”
This story is the days distraction from Obama’s 60 min interview.
Obviously the Secret Service is incompetent.
Obviously Dear Leader needs his own personal military units.
That have sworn loyalty to him personality.
Sort of like Hitler’s SS.
/s
meh, I don’t seem to care about his. WH has already been invaded by real cockroaches.
Uyeah it’s commensurate with that incident with the won’s SS not knowing that the white hut had been shot up until house keeping noticed the damage. ¿
Meh, just a workplace intrusion.
In my opinion, we have see a marked decrease in efficiency in the Secret Service since it was removed from the Treasury Dept and put under control of Homeland Security. Homeland Security, the most inefficient, worst managed, worst department in the federal government without question.
I believe this also applies to every agency under the Homeland Security banner. The only possible exception would be TSA since they could not possibly have gotten any worse and if memory serves, they started life under the Homeland Security banner.
The Secret Sevice has a horrible record for protection.
They spend too much time reading posts and not enough looking out the windows.
Imagine ten guys hoping the fence at the same.
Probably don’t want to shoot inside the residence. Or shoot at someone who might be wearing explosives.
“Another thought it, the poor women represented an altogether different threat to Obama. “
Reggie Love would not approve.
I never have understood why they killed the woman in the car. Trigger happy after the exciting pursuit I suppose.
I can think of two explanations for the latest incident. Simple incompetence... is generally the most likely explanation for any situation involving any government agency or the military. I say that as someone who spent 25 years working for a local government in a fire department.
The less likely explanation is that the guys who are protecting Obama are as sick of him as the rest of us and have less commitment to their mission than one would normally expect. It is rather shocking that a guy who has gone looney tunes could infiltrate so far into a secure area in the Whitehouse. Kim Jong-un, Putin, Ali Khamenei, Bashar al-Assad, the leaders of Isil and all of the USA’s other greatest enemies all perceive Obama as the weakest president in the history of the USA. So I doubt whether Obama is under any increased danger because of this incident.
Ran past several SS and they didn’t stop him. Proves how they feel about the ever absent obola and moo.
Who knows what went wrong? Under the circumstances, the more appropriate question could be who cares? Did Obama care enough to pay attention to the briefing after the incident?
ABC News mentioned that the guy ran past a stairway that leads directly to the White House living quarters, and was caught in the East Room.