Posted on 10/03/2014 8:47:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
The White House sprayed by bullets.
A hospital guard with a criminal record and a gun the Secret Service didn't know about riding on an elevator with the president in Atlanta.
The fence-jumper who made it all the way into the East Room of the White House. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson had no choice but to resign on Wednesday
afternoon.
She did it a week or two late, but she did the right thing.
The vaunted federal agency -- whose core duty is to protect the president of the United States, his family and his home - has become just another bungling Washington bureaucracy led by incompetents and political appointees.
Earlier this week we saw Pierson on TV being upbraided by lawmakers from both parties who couldn't believe how the Secret Service has turned into the Keystone Cops. Aka, "Security Breaches 'R Us."
Pierson was at times evasive, uninformed and self-contradictory during her testimony.
She had been appointed to head the Secret Service in the spring of 2013 after agents on an advance team were caught drinking excessively and procuring prostitutes in Colombia.
That was shame enough. But under her brief reign, the Secret Service's standards apparently fell so low they couldn't be counted on to keep the president or the inside of his house safe.
Pierson, a veteran agent who owed her directorship to political correctness, was clearly not up to the task of reforming or running the Secret Service.
But like a typical Washington "executive," she spent half of her time before Congress whining about how cuts in funding had hurt her agency's ability to operate. The other half was spent covering her own you-know-what.
The White House complex is protected by the Secret Service's 1,300-person uniformed division, which became part of the agency in 1930.
The personnel who didn't notice the White House fence-hopper were not highly trained agents like the heroes who threw their bodies in front of my father when he was shot.
Those elite agents -- members of the PPD, or presidential protection division -- travel with the president wherever he goes.
They also provide protection 24/7 for the president's wife and children. That why, for eight years I, my kids and my home in L.A. had constant Secret Service protection.
The agency did a great job in the 1980s. But today the Secret Service has become dangerously careless or complacent about basic security measures at the White House.
"The People's House" isn't an airtight fortress surrounded by minefields and machine gun nests.
It's had a few lone intruders before. Presidents Hoover and FDR each found themselves in the White House in the presence of strangers.
Some guy followed the Marine Band into the White House after my father's second inauguration and wasn't discovered for 15 minutes. And remember those Obama White House party crashers a few years back?
But in 2014 the Secret Service has gotten sloppier than a bunch of drunk rent-a-cops at a stag party.
It's the age of terrorism. Every major building, airport concourse and ballpark in America is on guard against terrorists.
Yet the White House, despite untold millions that have been spent to fortify it since 9/11, is still vulnerable to intrusions by individuals who are curious, crazy or intent on doing serious harm.
Sixteen idiots have jumped the White House fence since 2009 - six this year.
President Obama supposedly has had three times as many death threats as any other president. Yet when bullets were fired at the White House in 2011, the Secret Service didn't learn about it for months?
It's pathetic, even by Washington standards.
Pierson's isn't the only head that should roll over "Intruder Gate."
The president should fire the head of the Secret Service's uniformed division. Then he or Michelle should find someone who has enough sense to keep the White House front door locked.
My neighbor's teen-age baby-sitter is available.
It all about the EXEMPT, The Emperor-King and
the EXEMPT Lords of Congress (aka. ‘above the Law’)/
Is not the US border bigger?
Is not the threat bigger?
Are not more people at risk?
And yet, the EXEMPT only care ... about themselves
and their families (EXEMPT) and their staff (EXEMPT)
and their beloved special religion (EXEMPT, guess which).
If I was Blam and I found out about the elevator ride I’d be 911’ing Gavin DeBecker for security. :-)
I think you got your Michaels mixed up; piece was penned by Michael Reagan.
Ousted SS head ---Julia Pierson a two-fer political correctness appointee---a woman and a lesbian.
She was clearly not up to the task. Testifying before Congress, she was CYA'ing to beat the band---- times evasive, uninformed and self-contradictory.
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THE WASHINGTON POST IS REPORTED THURSDAY: In the spring, ousted SS head, Julia Pierson, was irate at what she considered the excessive security measures planned for the US-Africa Leaders Summit, which Obama hosted this summer, demanding that it dismantle extra layers of fencing and reopen closed streets, according to two agency supervisors.
SS supervisors who had mapped out the security plan said they were taken aback-------b/c Pierson, who worked during high school at Walt Disney World as a costumed character and park attendant, told them: “We need to be more like Disney World.......more friendly, inviting.”
Maybe Julia thought the interpreter was just a happy-go-lucky "Uncle Remus" ......about to break into a chorus of Zippity-Doo-Dah?
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This is the demented Lost in Space world Obama and the prog/libs reside in.....feel-goodism up close.
There's no moral absolutes---no right or wrong. Even a hint of Christian-like "judgementalisn" is considered un-PC.
It's the Planned Parernthood dicta---do what makes YOU "feel good" about yourself.
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Hillary wrote, "it takes a village." But it took only one doofus--- Obama---to expose the lib/prog's "humanitarian" elitism that is endangering us.
These brain-dead, feel-good types believe “singling out” backward nations or antediluvian cultures which pose deadly threats to the public health or safety of Americans “stigmatizes” those nations or cultures, it “shames” them, it makes them "feel" unequal.
It’s (horrors) "judgmental."
We can never, Ever suggest that America prefers already existing tax-paying, law-abiding citizens to foreigners w/ big plans for our heads.
Dumbo Dummycrats are the reasons for the deluge of Central American refugees, the reason why illegals never feel the sting of US justice, the reason we remain unable to strip jihadists of US citizenship, the reason that a year after two Chechen refugees bombed the Boston Marathon, America is preparing to expand resettlement of Syrian refugees.
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In fact the WH-ding-a-ling has already colluded to change US laws to bestow preferred status on terrorists.
Obama admin's law unilaterally changed to let in immigrants with 'limited' terror contact
The Daily Caller | 2/5/14 / FR Posted by Nachum
The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists.
“These exemptions cover five kinds of limited material support that have adversely and unfairly affected refugees and asylum seekers with no tangible connection to terrorism: material support that was insignificant in amount or provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, family or humanitarian interactions, or under significant pressure,” a DHS official explained to The Daily Caller.
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry signed the exemptions. DHS contends that the law change is “commonsense” and that immigration procedures will remain the same in other respects. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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At the recent hearing WRT terrorists jumping the Mexican border into the US, Cong Jason Chaffetz questioned Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson WRT whether he is “aware of any apprehensions of suspected or known terrorists.” Johnson dodged the question.
Now the Secret Service is charged w/ protecting the President .... so it's important to know if the Secret Service did their job....and whether the SS thoroughly checked out individuals allowed to come that close to the President of the United States.
<><> did the SS determine if Luis and Victor and their families were ever tested for comunicable diseases?
<><> did the SS determine whether Luis and Victor emanate from countries struck by Ebola?
<><> did the SS determine whether Luis and Victor have valid passports?
<><> did the SS checkout whether Luis and Victor own registered firearms?
<><> did the SS determine the whereabouts of Luis and Victor's firearms, or other deadly weapons?
<><> did the SS determine whether Luis and Victor and/or their families have ever been labeled ntl security threats?
<><>did the SS determine whether Luis and Victor hold memberships in violent latino groups advocating the overthrow of the US govt?
<><> did the SS determine whether Luis and Victor are familiar w/ Central America drug cartels?
<><> did the SS determine whether Luis and Victor and their families are paid agents of foreign governments?
<><> did the SS examine Luis and Victor's phone records, emails and snail mail, wire transfers, etc?
<><> did the SS examine Luis and Victor's foreign travel?
<><> did the SS determine whether Luis and Victor earn outside income as paid consultants to foreign governments?
<><> did the SS determine whether Luis and Victor and/or their families are registered as agents of foreign governments?
<><> did the SS determine the number of US govt checks Luis and Victor and their families are cashing?
<><> did the SS determine whether Luis and Victor and/or their families ever voted under several identities?
<><> did the SS determine the number of Social Security numbers Luis and Victor and/or their families are using?
<><> did the SS determine the number of identities Luis and Victor and/or their families are using?
<><> did Luis and Victor ever file falsified documents w/ the federal government?
<><> did the SS determine Luis and Victor ever made false statements on tax returns?
<><> did the SS detemine whether Luis and Victor ever falsified IRS forms to get EITC refunds?
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Taxpayers demand to know who is coming in contact w/ their president and who these individuals are communicating with, who is directing their activities, and whether they are consorting with violent organizations advocating the overthrow of the US govt .
Perhaps the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute might have answers.
FBI TIPS PAGE---https://tips.fbi.gov
L/E should supboena the C/H/C and the C/H/C/I official filings, phone records, emails, snail mail copies, hard drives, bank accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, debit cards, wire transfers, social media contacts, and the like.
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ACTION NOW---Contact your Congressman, US Senators and demand that this incident be investigated.
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