Agency votes for spikes on the White House fence. A moat was already ruled out.

Washington Post ^ | 4-16-15 | Colby Itkowitz

[markomalley]

A moat around the White House was actually under consideration but was quickly ruled out.

You may recall in November 2014, a few months after a man jumped the White House fence, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) suggested to then-acting Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy that one solution to secure the grounds was a barricade of water.

But when a federal agency voted unanimously Wednesday morning on a temporary fence plan, a moat wasn’t an option. The agency approved adding steel spikes to the existing fence to fend off jumpers.

[Paladin2]

Double ring it with biodiesel transit buses....

[goodnesswins]

That must be somewhere in Saudi Arabia?

[Carl Vehse]

eyeamok @3: "What a frikkin joke, the White Hut should NEVER HAVE MORE SECURITY, nor should ANY Government Employee have more Security than the Southern Border with ISIS."

BINGO!!

[null and void]

Moscow. The Kremlin.

It was either that or The Forbidden City in Beijing.

Commies do like their little perks...

[fungoking]

You want trolls with that, angry ones?~Disney's The Kid

[Starboard]

Nothing short of a feudal castle will do. We already live in a feudal system so may as well adopt the rest of the structure wherein the peasants and serfs occupy the land beyond the castle walls.

[goodnesswins]

Thanks....I have never seen that photo.

[Minutemen]

Who cares about spikes on a fence when you got a gyrocopter?

[dennisw]

What a frikkin joke, the White Hut should NEVER HAVE MORE SECURITY, nor should ANY Government Employee have more Security than the Southern Border with ISIS.

exactly!!!!! Screw the open borders president be he Obama or any Democrat or Republican. They are all traitors when it comes to our open borders when a fence should have been put up ages ago along with computerized visa entry-exit checking at all ports of entry

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Obama is following in the footsteps of one his great heroes, Adolf Hitler......Yep, let’s fortify the White House like an underground NAZI bunker!!! Hey, You all Obamabots....”How’s that Obama “Hope & Change” working out for ya???

[Organic Panic]

What’s the danger? It’s not like the Obama’s are ever there.

“Fences don’t work” -Barrack Obama

[Buckeye McFrog]

I bet putting a spiked fence around your own home would violate zoning in D.C.

[mcshot]

The White Hut is lost and needs to be vacated, and replaced. It represents everything contrary to what this Country was founded on and probably reeks as well.

[castlebrew]

Spikes on the fence? Heck, it’s already got a dragon-in-residence...

[JoeProBono]

[GOPJ]

What a frikkin joke, the White Hut should NEVER HAVE MORE SECURITY, nor should ANY Government Employee have more Security than the Southern Border with ISIS.

Good point!

[sport]

Yeah, they say it belongs to the people, then they do everything in their power to keep the people out.

[Old Yeller]

Maybe some tar barrels on the roof, as a last-line of defense!

Worked on Home Alone and Home Alone 2.

[Mark17]

Kind of renders a moat to be moot.

LOL, I like it, I like it.

[Resolute Conservative]

And an alligator.