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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More comments : many thanks, all y’all ! This incident is fishy indeed....
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Excellent logic and analysis, GOPJ.
I appreciate it.
Thanks xzins...
If the talent isn't there, all the training in the world isn't going to help. How likely is it that they're picking the best people for the job. This is a payback, redressing grievances, cash award for participation regime.
I believe you make a valid point and completely agree.
Some have wanted to shut out the public for a number of years for “safety.”
I’m not buying the story about the turkey being in a snipers crosshairs either and him not shooting because he wasn’t armed, he was armed and it could have just as easily been a pistol as a knife.
Good post. You’re right, we’ll know soon.
See my post #65.
Rules and ways must be changed. The men and women protecting the President and his family should be as competent and brave as our SEALS.
OWEN!
Where’s my Pepsi?!
Yes, and from a muslim SS, it’s only a short hop, skip, and a jump to a new Waffen SS, isn’t it.
As long as there is equal opportunity, that is all that matters...
Kind of like a Helen Thomas in training...
President Bush promoted her to Chief of Staff. I don’t know what he was thinking. So obviously she was the choice when the last guy got kicked to the curb.
That would be fine if Obama had 8 years left, but do you really want to screw President Ted Cruz like that??????? We need to keep him safe too you know.
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