Posted on 09/30/2014 6:33:49 AM PDT by Textide
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about Secret Service security protocols following a September 19 White House intruder breach.
Hearing starts at 10am Eastern.
C-Span Live: http://www.c-span.org/live/
Fox News article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/30/white-house-intruder-made-it-to-east-room-officials-say/
Committee on Oversight and Government reform: http://oversight.house.gov/
Chairman Issa Preview Statement: http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Chairman-Issa-Preview-Statement.pdf
He need only look in the mirror. The reason so little is said is that anyone who sticks his neck out will only get it cut off. Nobody in congress will pursue their testimony honestly.
All of the people who have testified to congress on DOJ, FandF and Benghazi have come to nothing good and nothing was done after they squandered their careers.
I credit cummings for nothing. The attitude of the staff is a reflection of the attitude of the management. The management doesn’t care enough to do anything. It is all politics.
Under any other Administration, I’d say she’s toast. But this one never fires anyone.
Hearing gets underway at 18:50 minute mark
Watch Live: House Committee Hearing on White House Fence Jumper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maILCSbZ-ZU
Thanks for posting the link.
There were a couple of moments of stunned silence when she didn’t have answers to their questions. She was clearly not used to being grilled like that. Her canned responses of “we’re looking into it” and early attempts at stonewalling weren’t given quarter by most of the committee. For the most part, she was horrible.
She holds an appointed position. Not sure what Congress can do about forcing her out.
Thanks!
I think she was a "twofer"..female AND gay"..so Obama got his money's worth..
“Their resources are practically unlimited whereas they can hire the best of the best people in the nation and acquire the best technology available”
...yet their spokesdroid’s mouthpiece excuses them with “every organization has some learning to do” regarding a spectacular failure to stop the most mundane attacker.
If the one family home having the very best money-and-law-is-not-an-issue security on the planet can’t stop (multiple times over) this kind of problem, then in no way should said occupant & cronies be telling us to settle for nothing more than complete disarming and trusting security to people we’ve never met and are miles away.
No, they can’t speak extemporaneously at all. Between lawyers, coaching, liability and ineptness that ability has been lost.
The attitude of the staff is a reflection of the attitude of their management. The fish rots from the head. The rot sets the tone for the rest of the body. With the wrong leadership even an organization that was good becomes poor under new leadership and it does not take long. It also does not take long for an organization to lose its tribal knowledge. We are losing the edge in lots of places.
You can only tolerate so much PC and you finally just give up and give in and let the chips fall where ever they may. A woman at the front door? Women as supervisors in an organization that is supposed to be closer to a goon squad than finesse? Somebody is stupid. PC run amok. Same thing goes for the military.
Personal discipline is much the same way. If you let yourself slip it just gets easier and easier.
It takes special people to lead special organizations and they have to keep their string taught all the time.
I celebrate every failure of this government and society, every loss of freedoms, every new outrage, every lie, every bungle and every disaster. The sheeple must get what they deserve. It is the only way. I like suffering if they suffer as well. There is no orderly way to reverse this tide. The body has to be destroyed and be rebuilt from the ashes.
He actually asked that? What was the answer?
7:16 Minutes
Rep. Gowdy Questions Secret Service Director Pierson about White House Security Breaches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwK3Q73Kd4E
Very rough transcript here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3209382/posts?page=99#99
Full list of videos
Full Hearing from Roll Call you tube
Watch Live: House Committee Hearing on White House Fence Jumper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maILCSbZ-ZU
From Gowdy you tube
7:16 Minutes
Rep. Gowdy Questions Secret Service Director Pierson about White House Security Breaches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwK3Q73Kd4E
From Chaffetz you tube
Chaffetz Q&A: SS Oversight Hearing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UJzvgmM0jk
Chaffetz opening statement SS Oversight Hearing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1igaQ6-7_wA
From House Oversight you tube
9-30-2014 Chairman Issa Q&A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hHSOCaD8xI
9-30-2014 Chairman Issa Opening Statement on Secret Service
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLlscLyaOmw
From National Review you tube
1:35 Minutes
Rep. Cummings: ‘Not Sure Ms. Pierson Has Been Completely Transparent With Us’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWkgiWv7FKQ
4:05 Minutes
Dem Rep to Pierson: ‘Wish to God You Protected the WH Like You’re Protecting Your Reputation’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx1UPBndq28
6:06 Minutes
Chaffetz: Showing ‘Tremendous Retraint Is Not the Goal’ of Secret Service
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4rscIK7hxM
If the Emergency Alarm had been operational, an Automatic Lock would not have been necessary.
Since the Emergency Alarm on the door was over-ridden because it was annoying to the White House Steward, how many days will pass before the Automatic Lock on the door is also over-ridden?
The first time a Person Who Matters (PWM) is inconvenienced by the Automatic Lock, it will be disabled. And the White House is full of PWMs.
7 Minutes
Rep. Meadows Questioning Secret Service Director on White House Breach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUvTGOPcUvM
Re Post 107
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3209382/posts?page=107#107
GOTCHA moment...
SS Director stated Sequestration caused 550 people cut from SS. Rep. brings out her 2013 Budget request that stated wanting to cutting 340 people.
She sits there....doesn’t have an answer.
BAMB!
Now he is asking her about 1 million dollar Executive Suite!
Her response amounted to: “I will continue to make changes as I see fit based on what people are willing to tell me, and in no way will I address, or even acknowledge in this form, the fact that many are more comfortable telling anyone _but_ me about serious concerns.”
Do Democrats recruit from the nearest lesbian bar? From Janet Reno to Big Sis they keep putting these bull dyke fascists in charge of security and over and over again they fail.
all about PC to the Dems, they have to appoint these kind of people regardless if they are qualified. Hell just look at the woman who was brushed aside at the door, but Laura Ingraham said this morning when she worked there she always saw two big guys at the door.
How times have changed , and for the worse
I’m noticing a distinct absence of a point:
There are many references to the perp being apprehended out-of-state with a carload of weapons and a map to the core governmental area (as the skittish SS director notes, it did not mark the WH in particular, just the narrow area it’s in; Capitol et al would be just as suspect a destination) and the SS not seeing that as a Red Alert on the premise that he wasn’t actually doing/admitting anything illegal ...
... but despite pointing out that this man who admittedly was living out of his car (and thus had no home to return to), with a map of DC, and who admitted having that map for “sightseeing”, NOBODY observed that what he had in the car would either be ABSOLUTELY ILLEGAL in DC, or (given the confusing court rulings of late) even if legal, EVERY LEVEL OF DC POLICE OF ALL KINDS would DO EVERYTHING THEY WOULD TO INCARCERATE HIM AS LONG AS CONCEIVABLY POSSIBLE. Instead, they talked to him for a while and let him go.
And when he was found with an axe at the WH fence, same result. Let go, not “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law”.
Agreed,I turned it off when they showed a home security system.Are you kidding me.
Folks, I’m sorry but this is Darwinism in action. I get the whole thing about not wanting martyrdom and so forth and agree. I do not want to see any freak break into the WH and kill/harm anyone. But if this crew of fools wants to commit suicide through dealing the SS, that’s their choice.
Whatever admin that potentially replaces it will up the security to where it belongs. These idiots are going to do nothing but make things worse following these farcical hearings anyway. They will double down as they do on anyone and anything that opposes their divine wisdom.
Not like they’d listen to anything coming out of these hearings that messes with their optics anyway. So just be ready to deal with the fallout when some whackjob does succeed. Not like we have a choice anyway.
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