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
Unbelievable.
Pierson should be fired.
People can say what they want... but men are stronger than women. Period. Anyone who has gotten through life that does not know this is either not paying attention or just refuse to accept it.
Its one of those PC things we should not say but it is the truth.
Granted, a trained woman with skills can overpower an untrained man. But if the man has the same skills = no contest.
Do not put a woman at the front door of our presidents house!
Yeah... If anyone ever needed to be fired... its this dummy.
She speaks bureaucrat. Apparently that qualifies her to run an agency.
My comment on supervisors is born out by Dan Bongino who says:
When you combine this with a very small number of self-absorbed and vindictive high-ranking Secret Service managers who care more about their next job and their “contacts” rather than the hard-working agents out there in the world’s hotspots, actually doing the work, then the recipe for failure is there.
See comment 6 on this thread for his entire statement (thanks to Tula Git for posting!)
I’d tell her if she says she’s going to conduct a robust review one more time that we’re gonna transfer to Afghanistan as a grunt.
Eleanor Norton (DC congresscritter) asking two questions:
Norton: Are you considering closing the area around the White House? Are you considering or have you ever recommended a different fence?
Pierson: We want to make sure that the people have access to the areas around the WH. I look forward to working with you in looking at the challenges that face us.
Norton: Can you handle multiple jumpers, and isn’t it true that your budget has been cut?
Pierson: (ignores multiple jumper question). It is true that our budget has been cut and it’s been a big challenge.
Unbelievable.
Does the White House not have some type of alarm that can recognize when a bullet hits the house?
There is technology that can sense a bullet flying and impacting. I would think if any place had that technology, it would be a place like the white house.
Gowdy up..... this will be fun!
The Mooch & Obola weren’t home, but the girls were. The SS did not tell them what was going on and later, was afraid to tell The Mooch (didn’t want to wake her up from a nap) & she found out from the WH usher (I think) before the SS could tell her. Obola was away & when he got back, the two of them had a “talk” with the SS (Julia?). Word has it that Mooch could be heard screaming at the SS through the door. In this case, I don’t think I blame her.
Trey Gowdy up now!
So the best of the best couldn't dig out a bullet from a wooden window frame to tell if it was a .223 or 5.56 vs a handgun load? What a load of Bull shit...especially when they know there was a auto accident just down the road with a AR rifle in the vehicle at the same time.
Gowdy is going YARD on her. LOL
I have never worked for the SS at all and I could answer those questioned exactly like she is answering them.
Gees! I wonder if he had a rope that had a noose tied on it in his possession, if the LIV CBC would be calling racism?
Gowdy is tearing her a new one on this. She’s upholding the hallmark reputation of the Obama administration: gross incompetence. I mean, her testimony is PATHETIC. Her responses are robotic and like reading a statement.
I would vote for Gowdy for anything office he wanted to hold.... I love this guy...
You got to be kidding.Wake her up,tell her the girls were in danger.That’s your job.
Tried to catch the info, but there are gaps.
Gowdy: Investigate the shots fired?
Response: Confusion - WaPo story
Gowdy: why didn’t your agents find the glass? Housekeeper found the evidence.
Response: Housekeeper found the evidence, not frequented by SS officers
Gowdy: your officers drew their weapons - when did your agency find evidence of the shooting?
Officers drawing weapons...but where is the evidence of backfired car?
Response:
Gowdy: 6-8 times
Also undisputed housekeeper found evidence, but your agency did not find it.
You are not going to tell us that Sequester is the reason your agents could not find this.
Gowdy: given all evidence you were sure it was a car backfired
Response: Park Police
Gowdy: you reached a conclusion that it was not shots fired, give me evidence to support theory and explain why your officers
Gowdy: How is it housekeepers found it an your officers did not
Response: That’s in the family residence
Gowdy: explain to the jury how this happened
Response: shooting at 9:30 pm - shots fired reported and officers swept area, not known until days later that the shots had been found
Gowdy: Website shows training for other things - this is just processing a crime scene. You just need to walk around.
Why wasn’t it done?
You’re telling me.
Gowdy’s time just expired. He was grilling her mostly on why a housekeeper found evidence of the shooting in 2011 before her agents did. She couldn’t really answer to his satisfaction, so he kept asking it. She eventually said that a security sweep was performed afterwards, but that it evidently wasn’t thorough enough.
Duh!
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