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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: fishtank

OK, seriously, how could anyone with 1/10th of a brain hire this clearly out-of-shape hog to supervise a team of elite security people to guard a very important person (such as he is)?

SMH.....

Her friggin’ buttons are about to burst her jacket.

Geezus....we are so screwed.....


41 posted on 10/01/2014 12:39:37 PM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: pabianice

Conservatives generally choose the best person for a position, irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity, or sexual persuasion.
Liberals are always looking to fill out the dance card. “We need a female Hispanic for the Supreme Court.” Hence, the supremely underachieving Sonia Sotomayor. She isn’t qualified to be Robert Bork’s cleaning lady, yet his nomination was destroyed by Ted Kennedy and his ilk because Bork was prejudiced against murdering babies in the womb.


42 posted on 10/01/2014 12:40:25 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (When using "he" or "him" to refer to Barack Obama, is it still okay to use the lower case "h"?)
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To: wally_bert

Physical Fitness standards are part of the War on Women and Minorities, you know.


43 posted on 10/01/2014 12:40:25 PM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: pabianice

Don’t be fooled. The democrat press will just consider this “problem solved” and move on to cover up the wide ranging incompetence of this administration.


44 posted on 10/01/2014 12:40:59 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: pabianice

Obama’s nominee for her replacement is his other bodyguard, Susan Rice.


45 posted on 10/01/2014 12:41:32 PM PDT by caligatrux (...some animals are more equal than others.)
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To: pabianice

I tip my hat to your superior wisdom.


46 posted on 10/01/2014 12:41:39 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: pabianice

Say!!!! Whatever became of Lois Lerner?


47 posted on 10/01/2014 12:41:43 PM PDT by Old Yeller (D.A.M.N. - Deport All Muslims Now! Starting in the White House.)
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To: F15Eagle

That is very true


48 posted on 10/01/2014 12:42:28 PM PDT by rxtn41
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To: pabianice

if the headline had read ... Secret Service Head Rolls ... I’d have had to blame isis .... uh oh ... wait one minute thar.


49 posted on 10/01/2014 12:44:06 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: caligatrux

yep... I knew something was terribly wrong with the Secret Service when that guy with the horse head mask was able to approach the President.. that man should have been spotted and kept away from the President.


50 posted on 10/01/2014 12:44:56 PM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: pabianice

Take a hike, a long hike. Too much PC gets people killed


51 posted on 10/01/2014 12:44:59 PM PDT by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28- 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

My thoughts too. Too many affirmative action hires has made the US impotent. The enemy is LOL.


52 posted on 10/01/2014 12:47:00 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: BigEdLB

ACTUAL local radio report headline:

“President Obama Removes Head of Secret Service Unit.”

(if you ever needed confirmation that he was a Muzzie…)


53 posted on 10/01/2014 12:47:30 PM PDT by mikrofon (Professional Detachment)
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To: pabianice

It’s people like the members of this administration that give incompetence a bad name


55 posted on 10/01/2014 12:51:21 PM PDT by Yankee (My President is a Fascist)
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To: pabianice

But will the kneepad media try to spin this as more evidence of the Republican “war on women?”


56 posted on 10/01/2014 12:51:25 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: NEMDF

...and a raise..


57 posted on 10/01/2014 12:52:00 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: pabianice

Getting rid of generals, admirals, colonels, Lt Colonels, majors, Secret Service, and bringing in people with a different loyalty.

Bringing “illegals” into the military while laying off citizen soldiers...will he hire “illegals” and refugees for the SS?


58 posted on 10/01/2014 12:52:48 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: caligatrux

[ Obama’s nominee for her replacement is his other bodyguard, Susan Rice. ]

Maybe Valerie Jarrett can pick someone from the Iranian Guard to protect the president....


59 posted on 10/01/2014 12:53:06 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: capydick

Is she of the liberal lesbianeasy persuasion?


60 posted on 10/01/2014 12:53:31 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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