Posted on 09/30/2014 4:31:10 AM PDT by servo1969
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson will face questions about how an armed intruder jumped the White House fence and made it as far as the East Room when she testifies before a House committee on Tuesday.
Sources confirmed to Fox News on Monday that 42-year-old Omar Gonzalez overpowered a Secret Service officer in the Sept. 19 incident -- this led to a struggle and "wrestling" inside the executive mansion as he darted through. Gonzalez was eventually tackled by a counter-assault agent in the East Room after he reached the doorway to the Green Room, a parlor overlooking the South Lawn.
The revelation that the intruder made it much farther than originally known came on the eve of a scheduled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing that will address the breach, as well as lawmakers' "concerns" about the Secret Service's security protocols.
A series of what one source called "catastrophic" security failures apparently allowed the intruder to get deep into the White House.
The Secret Service did not follow basic protocols during the incident to protect the White House, the president and the first family and the agency still does not know why, a source intimately familiar with details of the investigation told Fox News.
For example, the Secret Service didn't lock down certain areas of the property and did not elevate the threat level at the White House so that other uniformed officers and agents would know what was happening, which is a standard response.
“This was a catastrophic failure when the President was not there. What if the president was there?” the source, a longtime Secret Service insider, added. "It turns out that basic functions in place to avoid this were never initiated."
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Witnessed in the late night hours during equipment recovery following a training exercise at Ft. Campbell, KY:
Tall, athletic, black, male SFC: “Private, pick up that power supply and take it downstairs.”
Short, petite, white, female PFC: “But Sergeant, it’s heavy!”
SFC (the supervisor) picks up the power supply and hauls it down a long, narrow flight of stairs in a WWII-era wooden barracks bldg., converted for use in exercises. Female PFC trails behind.
SFC: “What would you do if we were in the field!?”
PFC: “But Sergeant, it’s so heavy!”
This is what decades of affirmative action have done to our fire depts., law enforcement agencies, and armed forces.
Look at all these useless people on the public payroll. Hell a whole town of metrosexuals.
These people are soft. Not a callous or a hang nail in the whole bunch. These are the secrete service warriors? No wonder the barbarians always win in the end.
You are right about about her hair being a little “rough looking”, but her wife probably likes it just fine.
LOL! Hi, musicman!
Hi trisham!!
Everything Clown Prince no0bama and his socalled “administration” does is intentional. They also are chronic liars. No truth from them.
0 wanted this chit so I think he ought to get a belly full.
Make the whole White Hut security detail female. Maybe throw in a few homos and dykes for "diversity" and then he can show off his acute sense of inclusion to any world leader who might still be willing to stop by.
I just wonder if he isn't behind the weakening of the SS so the next President will have to decide whether or not to fire them and get real protection.
Can you imagine the uproar when President Cruz decides he wants to decide who he wants protecting him?
Not that I'm opposed to uproar. I'd love to see it.
Staged event to pave the way for muslim SS
Who ordered the WH usher to have the alarm turned down/off? What authority do they have?
I would bet money this was staged
Maybe he wants to pick his own like minded people for the job
Republican Guard, Stasi or MB types
The Usher is responsible for the day-to-day running of the White House and its staff. He/she is not responsible for the Secret Service, and when the Usher asked them to turn the alarm off then the correct response should have been 'no'. But It's pretty clear that the Secret Service has gotten pretty lax over the last few decades since Reagan was shot.
“Oooooowweeennnn! Someone’s at the door!”
“He does seem to be drawn to ugly women.”
Yes - we might even say ‘mannish’ women.
Strange, that.
Very.
That was my first thought too... that it was a fake crisis to achieve a nafarious goal - a goal Obama's people couldn't get through normal channels... Then again the Secret Service could just be incompetent.
We'll know soon.
If the White House uses this 'mistake' to close down areas around the White House and interrogates anyone and everyone within blocks then you're probably right xzins. It's a calculation totalitarian move.
But if instead the Secret Service learns to lock doors AND beefs up their security and training WITHIN the gates of the White House then this might be what it seems on the surface: incompetence.
Muldoon: That’s right, but they never attack the same place twice. They were testing the fences for weaknesses, systematically. They remember.
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