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Secret Service head in hot seat after White House breach details revealed
FoxNews.com ^ | 9-30-2014 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 09/30/2014 4:31:10 AM PDT by servo1969

Secret Service Director Julia Pierson will face questions about how an armed intruder jumped the White House fence and made it as far as the East Room when she testifies before a House committee on Tuesday.

Sources confirmed to Fox News on Monday that 42-year-old Omar Gonzalez overpowered a Secret Service officer in the Sept. 19 incident -- this led to a struggle and "wrestling" inside the executive mansion as he darted through. Gonzalez was eventually tackled by a counter-assault agent in the East Room after he reached the doorway to the Green Room, a parlor overlooking the South Lawn.

The revelation that the intruder made it much farther than originally known came on the eve of a scheduled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing that will address the breach, as well as lawmakers' "concerns" about the Secret Service's security protocols.

A series of what one source called "catastrophic" security failures apparently allowed the intruder to get deep into the White House.

The Secret Service did not follow basic protocols during the incident to protect the White House, the president and the first family and the agency still does not know why, a source intimately familiar with details of the investigation told Fox News.

For example, the Secret Service didn't lock down certain areas of the property and did not elevate the threat level at the White House so that other uniformed officers and agents would know what was happening, which is a standard response.

“This was a catastrophic failure when the President was not there. What if the president was there?” the source, a longtime Secret Service insider, added. "It turns out that basic functions in place to avoid this were never initiated."

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To: servo1969

It’d be so nice to find something nice to say, but, let’s face it, this woman took a bad fall out of the Ugly Tree and hit her face on every, single branch on the way down.

And if she’s fired, she certainly won’t be teaching at the college level or performing brain surgery.

In short, she’s just the sort of person we now expect to find on the Obama A-team.


21 posted on 09/30/2014 5:02:14 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Texas Eagle

>> Didn’t there used to be Marines standing guard at those doors?

Why would he need marine guards? The Proletariat all love and worship him as a god, and after six years of glorious struggle he has achieved respect throughout the world as he promised he would do.

Oh, I get it now... that guy was after MICHELLE!


22 posted on 09/30/2014 5:05:18 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and Mohammed is his demon)
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To: servo1969

another Tet?


23 posted on 09/30/2014 5:05:19 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/ http://thepurginglutheran.tumblr.com/)
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To: xzins; Old Sarge; Mossad1967; brucecw; EnigmaticAnomaly; KylaStarr; Califreak; kalee; milford421; ..
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Secret Service head in hot seat after White House breach details revealed

Check out # 16.

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24 posted on 09/30/2014 5:10:11 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: servo1969

I don’t care who the occupant is.
WE (as taxpayers) don’t pay for this kind of laxness.

There is so much ‘wrong’ with this it is pathetic.

That it got ‘leaked’ tells more than the story means though.

There must be some real ‘weeweed off’ (rightfully so) people to run(leak) with this article.

But like they say if you want 3 people to keep a secret, you better kill 2 of them. Or transfer them to ‘Peoria’ THEN the real story will get leaked.

BUT we do know that he had 800 rounds in his truck (BEFORE anything else was ‘shared’).

A knife on him, a hatchet and 800 rounds...
Have they strip searched him to see if the weapon was where the ‘sun don’t shine’?

Yes the 800 rounds is an ‘interesting’ aside BUT ‘they’ find it necessary to mention it in the ‘lead’ almost like everytime we hear ‘St Michael’ mentioned it has the trailer of ‘the unarmed Black teenager shot by a White Cop’.

Not only does obnero ‘fiddle’ while the world around him is burning, he is also fanning the flames.


25 posted on 09/30/2014 5:10:25 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free.)
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To: servo1969

That’s a man, baby!

(sorry, couldn’t resist)

CC


26 posted on 09/30/2014 5:11:03 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: Jack Hammer

He does seem to be drawn to ugly women.


27 posted on 09/30/2014 5:22:28 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: servo1969

Omar Gonzalez = White Hispanic.

Which Tea Party group was he affiliated with again?

It is so hard to keep track of “all” the hate filled violence being perpetrated against America by Tea Party Groups — You know, with all the burning, looting, raping, knock out game, and robbery that they do all the time.


28 posted on 09/30/2014 5:22:29 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: servo1969
All I can say is - "A fish rots from the head down."

"Pierson was appointed by President Barack Obama and became the 23rd director and the first woman to head the male dominated agency... Pierson was already the agency's highest-ranking woman before being promoted to director. She is tasked with improving the image of the USSS, following the Summit of the Americas prostitution scandal."

Source

Really? Her task is to improve the image of the service? I thought her task was to guard the POTUS.

Yet ANOTHER of Obolo's affirmative action political hires backfires badly.

29 posted on 09/30/2014 5:23:18 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and Mohammed is his demon)
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To: servo1969

I loved her in “Throw Momma from the Train”.


30 posted on 09/30/2014 5:26:43 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: servo1969

Helen Thomas had a daughter? Who knew?


31 posted on 09/30/2014 5:26:48 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: servo1969

AAH


32 posted on 09/30/2014 5:29:44 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Mom MD

She’s having a bad hair decade.


33 posted on 09/30/2014 5:32:59 AM PDT by twister881
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To: servo1969
Her eyes are full of disdain.

I can see that woman running a death camp under Obama's 3rd term.

34 posted on 09/30/2014 5:36:17 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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To: servo1969

Didn’t a Secret Service sniper, stationed on the White House roof, admit he had the intruder in his crosshairs but didn’t fire because the President and First Family was not there?


35 posted on 09/30/2014 5:38:54 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: T-Bone Texan

Third term? Dictator perpetuo, more likely.


36 posted on 09/30/2014 5:40:55 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: servo1969
One piece of info left out of this story (because it couldn't possibly matter, right?)

"Sources confirmed to Fox News on Monday that 42-year-old Omar Gonzalez overpowered a female Secret Service officer

From Kesslers latest book :

A female Secret Service agent on the president’s detail is so out of shape that she literally cannot open the heavy doors to exit the president’s limousine. Instead of removing her from protecting the president and requiring her to pass the physical fitness tests that all agents are supposed to take every three months, Secret Service management told drivers to try to park the Beast so it would be easier for the vehicle door to swing open for her.

If the president were shot, she could not help carry him to safety, an agent notes. Agents know there is no point in complaining to a supervisor: The overweight female agent is a supervisor

37 posted on 09/30/2014 5:43:08 AM PDT by TheCipher (It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ~Mark Twain)
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To: xzins

U might be right — fits their M.O.


38 posted on 09/30/2014 5:47:50 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: xzins

“I think this is BS. I think it’s intentional.”

Same here.

It’s too similar to right after when Obama got in the WH in 2009.

The MSM was pushing stories of how the “racist right wing extremist” being led by Glenn Beck wanted to see the President assassinated.

The MSM then began with stories of the SS being chock a block full of racist that would love to see Obama assassinated.

Howard Dean let it slip that the republicans were doing what they had done with Bill Clinton, they wanted to kill the president.

Before the OKC bombing in 1995, the dems started the exact same talking points campaign that the “right wing extremist” being led by Rush Limbaugh wanted to kill the President.

Clinton took a trip to the Philippines where Terry Nicholes had been and low and behold there was an assassination plot against Clinton.

In 2009, Hillary took an unannounced trip overseas and low and behold there was an assassination plot against Hillary.

In 1995 we had the OKC bombing which was “right wing extremist”.

In 2010 we had a fertilizer car bomb attempt in NYC which they tried to blame on the TEA Party/right wing extremist.

This has all the appearances of a repeat of 1994/95 and 2009/10.

Orchestrate an assassination plot then follow with a terrorist attack and blame it on the “racist right wing extremist”.


39 posted on 09/30/2014 5:48:26 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: SampleMan

I remember watching an “OK” movie where that happened. Used garbage trucks. Olympus Has Fallen I believe.

Bad from a war-porn standpoint. They had a Spectre with guns on both sides.


40 posted on 09/30/2014 5:53:08 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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