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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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To: A_Former_Democrat

Well, here you have it, Folks. I answered my own question.

All that matters was:

First Woman Is Chosen to Lead Secret Service
By PETER BAKER NYT
Published: March 26, 2013

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday appointed Julia A. Pierson, a longtime Secret Service agent, as the first woman to head the agency best known for protecting the president, vice president and their families.


21 posted on 10/01/2014 12:31:10 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (STOP flights and immigration from HOT Zones . . .NOW)
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To: pabianice
Clearly she “resigned” her post after learning that Osama Obama signed an Executive Order allowing her a $100K/yr pension,payable immediately (and for life,adjusted for inflation of course)....whereas she wouldn't have been eligible for *anything* without that Order.
22 posted on 10/01/2014 12:31:35 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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To: pabianice

So, when the pos, poseur in chief’s life is at stake, the person is fired? But when it is any other citizen, say Benghazi victims, everything is A-OK?


23 posted on 10/01/2014 12:32:50 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: pabianice

Need more R Lee Ermey or Agent K,
less Janet Reno.


24 posted on 10/01/2014 12:33:02 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: pabianice

UNDER THE BUS, BITCH!


25 posted on 10/01/2014 12:33:06 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: pabianice

I would suggest that simultaneous crashes of her computer hard-drive and Blackberry preceded this decision.


26 posted on 10/01/2014 12:33:20 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: NEMDF
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

I hear there's an upcoming opening at Just-Us.

27 posted on 10/01/2014 12:33:43 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Obama Legacy: Bush's fault. Next guy's problem.)
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To: pabianice

If the average daily paid attendance at Houston Astros games was half as good as the number of people under the Obama bus, they’d have the money to buy some pitching.


28 posted on 10/01/2014 12:35:45 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: pabianice

Shouldn’t this be a secret?


29 posted on 10/01/2014 12:35:46 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Finally, they throw someone under the bus who deserves it.

However, if they start firing all the incompetents in this administration, it’s going to be a bumpy road for the White House bus.


30 posted on 10/01/2014 12:35:48 PM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: pabianice

Will be replaced by another affirmative action hack.


32 posted on 10/01/2014 12:36:04 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: pabianice

Now if only Obama would resign.


33 posted on 10/01/2014 12:36:14 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: petitfour

LOL, once again proving that FR has FAR better humor than any late-night show!!!


34 posted on 10/01/2014 12:36:26 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: pabianice

Yet another affirmative-action, political-tool incompetent resigns. What a loser.


35 posted on 10/01/2014 12:36:48 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: pabianice
Josh Earnest is on TV now, praising Pierson's leadership, professionalism, and character. Says Obama decided "the agency needed new leadership," so she didn't resign, she was fired. Interim boss is the assistant director, someone named Clancy.

Wikipedia already has her as having resigned.

Reporter jumps in with question about how Obama feels about the Evil Israelis persecuting the poor Arab terrorists. Earnest launches into attack on Israel. Those bastards cannot help themselves, can they?

36 posted on 10/01/2014 12:36:52 PM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: fishtank

I guess the director slot is exempt from physical fitness standards if there are any.


37 posted on 10/01/2014 12:38:05 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: fishtank

If I could draw a cartoon with a head rolling down White House steps, I could make a few bucks. As it is, maybe someone else will. Lol


38 posted on 10/01/2014 12:38:05 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Why does it take a Congressional investigation to clean up Obama’s affirmative action mess?


39 posted on 10/01/2014 12:38:59 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: pabianice

oh well ...


40 posted on 10/01/2014 12:39:28 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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