Sorry.
Posted on 09/30/2014 10:26:54 AM PDT by illiac
A knife-wielding intruder allowed to run rampant through the first floor of the White House. Bullets that struck the window of Barack Obama's private residence but went unnoticed for days. A presidential bodyguard so drunk he passed out in hallway of a hotel.
These are just some of the recent incidents that have shaken confidence in the Secret Service, the elite agency assigned to protect Mr Obama, his family and the White House.
On Tuesday, Julia Pierson, the Secret Service's director, will face a grilling from members of Congress and a battle to convince them that her agents are up to the task of protecting the world's most powerful man.
The hearing was called after a September 19 incident, when the Secret Service allowed Omar Gonzales, a troubled Iraq war veteran, to scale the White House fence and go through the unlocked front door of the executive mansion.
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Old Joe’s ONLY worth is as an insurance policy. Should Elmer Fudd be incapacitated, Old Joe’s value plummets to zero. And BTW, the next in line -Weeping John Boehner - ain’t much better.
Professional? Only in the sense that they get paid for what they do, not necessarily because they do it in a “professional” manner.
If there are were any loyal Americans in the Secret Service the answer would be NO.
I mean really who would want to harm Zero?... jeese...
It’s not like he was a thoroughly corrupt Marxist or anything..
Some people need to get a life... ((( WAIT! )))... /s
Well, they haven’t killed him yet...
can’t speak for the secret service BUT,
If I work for you and you crap on me enough, finally I’ll be doing the one doing the crapping.
Anyone in the secret service have his real birth certificate?
HOw about his true sexual proclivities?
maybe the radical mosque he belongs to?
Not just him. If they’re this carelss with Obama then did Bush make it through his term unscathed through sheer luck? And what does this mean for the next president?
Sorry.
Depends on what the definition of “safe” is and from whom or what.
Ain’t that the truth!
No matter how inept, incompetent or stupid biden may be, he’s still infinitely better than the moslem kenyan who infests the white house now.
I wish for Obama, and his people, the same level of security and safety that his actions have indicated that he wants for all of America.
There. I said it..
I’m sure every square inch of the WH would’ve been swept for explosives after this intruder was discovered, but it’s conceivable that even though the inhabitants weren’t there at the moment, it doesn’t mean something could not have happened at a later time when they were.
Agreed.
Agreed.
Hmmm..
I’ll withhold comment.
Yes it’s protected.
Better a bumbling, moderately corrupt fool who doesn't hate the nation than someone who is beyond corrupt and is actively trying to destroy it.
Cicero settled that 2100 years ago:
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to fear.
The traitor is the plague.
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