Posted on 03/21/2017 3:07:38 PM PDT by RummyChick
The White House fence jumper who lingered on the ground unnoticed for 17 minutes was literally just hanging out in plain view with alarms blaring, and the Secret Service had no clue.
Congressman Jason Chaffetz tells TMZ he met with the Director of Homeland Security and the Acting Director of the Secret Service for an hour and a half Tuesday, and his conclusion ... "It was even worse than I thought." Chaffetz says the surveillance video is shocking ... the intruder was not darting around. Rather, he was "lingering," "hanging out" on the grounds. At one point he took the time to bend down and tie his shoes.
The intruder at times peered through windows of the building, where Trump was inside. As we previously reported, he also jiggled a doorknob. Chaffetz says some of the alarms failed but some went off, yet the intruder was not detected. Secret Service agents did check the grounds, but not with any urgency. Alarms frequently go off for various reasons, and this time it was met with an inadequate response. And Chaffetz says the video shows agents were simply "lackadaisical." As he put it, "Everything went wrong." The congressman says he was promised there would be "big changes," adding, "There better be."
Coordinated or not, this event served as a free and open-source White House security sensitivity test and the results are now available worldwide for anybody with an interest in such things.
Word on the street: WHSS needs scorched earth weeding. Trump needs to tighten up the ship or take a VERY GRAVE personal — and national — risk.
Clinton, as some here will remember, used Arkansas State troopers to cover up his sexcapades when he was governor.
When Clinton got to the White House, he set about putting his own people in high positions in the Secret Service. (As Hillary did with other departments in the White House, such as the Travel Office.)
The corruption started at the top, and made its way down through the ranks.
He did ***what*** in the windows? Oh, never mind...
We have seen YEARS of incompetence and sloth from the management of the US Secret Service. Repeated scandals over several years now. This is so far beyond unacceptable, there are no words. If you have a problem of false alarms, in a site so sensitive as the White House, the proper answer is not to stop responding aggressively to alarms. You have to continue to treat each alarm with the utmost attention, assuming each one is a real problem until proved otherwise, while also working to improve the alarm systems.
Bravo, great and accurate post
Are the SS guys letting this happen intentionally? Did they suddenly become incompetent now that the grifter Jughead is out of office?
I wonder if Trump should start carrying in WH. And why not put his personal bodyguard in charge of fixing security there. He never seemed to problems at Trump Tower for sure.
Do you remember the story about how Obama had waited for improvements to be done to the Oval Office including bullet proof windows. It was going around that Trump wouldn’t be able to use the Oval Office in the beginning because of improvements.
He can’t trust Secret Service.
He has to have his own personal body guards first!
Drain the Secret Service Swamp and do it now.
I think he always carries.
No more underage Central American hookers, losing laptops, allowing intruders, or showing up at the WH gates drunk - for 72 hours - or else: Double Secret Probation.
Seriously, what a bunch of jack tosser puddles.
Remember when having any job meant doing a good job?
F'ing government loser-tards.
Israeli security teams mop the floor with these ‘roid’ed up high school jockstraps.
FIRE THEM ALL, Mr. TRUMP.
Every single one. And replace them.
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Yep, And quickly!
The Secret Service has been a joke ever since they were covering for the Clinton’s 1.0.
Probably before.
I wish Trump would bring in his own security people and send the SS to sit in the basement of the Treasury building until they get their act together.
My mind saw, “Tied shoes, pee’d in windows.”
Seriously!
The Mossad are not known to be “lackadaisical” about much of anything. Ever.
A great idea for certain.
Seriously!
The Mossad are not known to be “lackadaisical” about much of anything. Ever.
A great idea for certain.
It’s worse than not accountable. These SS freaks don’t WANT to protect Trump. If they wanted to, they would!
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