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White House intruder identified as Army veteran
Frontpage ^ | 9/21/14 | josh lederman - associated press

Posted on 09/21/2014 10:34:19 AM PDT by Nachum

WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of getting inside the White House after scaling a fence is a veteran who was awarded a medal for his service in Iraq and retired due to disability, the Army said Sunday.

Authorities have identified the intruder from Friday night's shocking incident as Omar J. Gonzalez, 42, of Copperas Cove, Texas, and the Army said he had served from 1997 to 2003, when he was discharged, and then again from 2005 to December 2012, when he retired.

The military does not provide details about a soldier's disability due to privacy considerations.

The Secret Service tightened security outside the White House after the embarrassing breach in which the intruder carrying a knife climbed the fence, ran across the lawn and entered the building before agents stopped him.

The first family was away from the White House at the time.

Increased surveillance and more officer patrols are among the measures that Secret Service Director Julia Pierson ordered. She also began an investigation into what went wrong.

A member of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that it was astonishing, at a time of concerns about terrorist attacks, that "someone could actually get into the White House without being stopped."

(Excerpt) Read more at frontpage.pch.com ...


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KEYWORDS: amnesty; army; house; intruder; laraza; omargonzalez; whbreach; white
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1 posted on 09/21/2014 10:34:19 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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2 posted on 09/21/2014 10:36:28 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

It’ll be interesting to see how the prosecution responds to his lawyer’s claims of PTSD.


3 posted on 09/21/2014 10:38:44 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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To: Nachum
Didn't the guy that shot up the wh with an AK 47 have the same last name?
4 posted on 09/21/2014 10:38:45 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Nachum

If this guy was Caucasian, “privacy” would not be an issue ...


5 posted on 09/21/2014 10:39:51 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: Nachum
it was astonishing, at a time of concerns about terrorist attacks, that "someone could actually get into the White House without being stopped...

Not so astonishing when you consider the intruder precedent set January 2009.

6 posted on 09/21/2014 10:39:57 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Nachum

The first family was away from the White House at the time.

Lights are off, nobody is at home in the White House these days.

7 posted on 09/21/2014 10:41:31 AM PDT by dancusa (Molon Labe)
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To: zot; 2ndDivisionVet; SandRat

pinng


8 posted on 09/21/2014 10:44:08 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Nachum

If only President Bozo cared about the invaders of our southern border as much as he did about white hut invaders.


9 posted on 09/21/2014 10:46:52 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Veggie Todd

Now 0bama knows how the citizens of Texas, California and Arizona feel. But he still doesn’t givva chit.


10 posted on 09/21/2014 10:50:10 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: dancusa

There is a First Family? Who knew?

Buncha squatters, transients just passing through, occasionally stop by there from time to time, between sojourns overseas and to exotic vacation spots. Or golfing trips.

But to call this bunch a family? That does strain the definition a little.


11 posted on 09/21/2014 10:50:11 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: Nachum
that Secret Service Director Julia Pierson ordered. She also began an investigation into what went wrong.

Start with the commander, Julia.

12 posted on 09/21/2014 10:50:33 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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To: Nachum

He could have gone into the White Hose Kitchen and stolen a Knife. Big whoop.


13 posted on 09/21/2014 10:53:15 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Cruz / Gowdy 2016, if you want to save America.)
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To: dancusa

Perpetual vacations and campaigning!


14 posted on 09/21/2014 10:55:12 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Nachum

If he was an illegal immigrant he’d be released after being fed and clothed.


15 posted on 09/21/2014 11:00:37 AM PDT by HarleyD ("... letters are weighty, but his .. presence is weak, and his speech of no account.")
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To: Ken522

The military is one of the few places where everyone is treated the same-and most people of Hispanic ancestry ARE Caucasian...


16 posted on 09/21/2014 11:06:35 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up yoiur boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Nachum
Nope ... just the security tightened.

With a knife, eh ?

I don't think I know a man that does NOT carry a knife ... I got one right now, in my church pants pocket ... one of those lock blade, dry-wall type bladed knives.

Is THIS a box cutter ?

More like a utility knife in MY vernacular.

17 posted on 09/21/2014 11:06:56 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Nachum

Is this the one who said he had to warn the president because the atmosphere was collapsing?


18 posted on 09/21/2014 11:07:22 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: dancusa

I heard that Tom Bodett leaves a light on in case you decide to drop by...


19 posted on 09/21/2014 11:08:23 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: NonValueAdded

“Secret Service Director Julia Pierson... began an investigation into what went wrong.”

Gonzalez obviously tired of waiting for an investigation of what went wrong with the Administration’s foreign policy and acted on his own conclusions.

It’s anyone’s guess what orifice he intended to put that knife


20 posted on 09/21/2014 11:09:19 AM PDT by Justa
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