Good morning!
I realize my title may be construed as harsh, but don’t you think that if the safest place in the U.S., The White House, is majorly breached and the Secret Service are responsible for protecting our president and his family, and they don’t, they pretty much suck. Either that or they’re just not concerned about the well-being and safety of the president and his family, as they should be, and then well…that still sucks. I do, therefore, think my title is appropriate. Because it is their job…they are getting paid to protect the First Family.
And then that brings to light another question of “Is their racism involved here?” I know, I know…I’m always accusing and illuminating racism…..But there is just too many layers breached and too many opportunities to prevent that breach that just didn’t happen, and should have.
And now we are privy to the fact that this fence jumper, Omar Gonzalez, actually made it further into the White House, all the way into the East Room, wielding a knife, rather than just entering the reported foyer. Hello! A knife kills - we’ve seen sick evidence this past month on how easily a knife can kill. If one of the Obama girls was grabbed by Gonzales…well, we all know what could happen with a knife.
How did this happen when the Secret Service are supposed to be the best…are supposed to protect the president and his family?
Let’s not forget that Gonzalez was stopped twice before, and he was caring guns/ammunition, maps to the White House, etc., were found on him and nothing was done then. Wha’at??!!
Here’s the write from CNN.
Washington (CNN) – The man who jumped the White House fence earlier this month and breached the mansion’s doors actually made it farther than originally thought, officials said Monday.
Omar Gonzalez, a 42-year-old Iraq war veteran who had a knife in his pocket, overcame one Secret Service officer and ran into the East Room of the White House, where he was then subdued, a federal law enforcement said.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who was provided the information by whistleblowers during his congressional investigation into the incident, also confirmed the details of what now appears to be a wild chase through the main floor of the White House, first reported by the Washington Post.
The Secret Service had previously stated that Gonzalez was stopped after entering the front door of the North Portico.
Gonzalez ran through much of the main floor, past a stairway that leads up to the first family’s residence, and was ultimately stopped at the far southern end of the East Room. He also reached the doorway to the Green Room, an area that looks out on the South Lawn.
No shots were fired inside the White House, the federal law official said.
Official: Secret Service twice interviewed, released would-be White House intruder
The Secret Service has not yet commented on the new details.
“I could not be more proud of the individual agents, but I worry that Director (Julia) Pierson and the leadership there at the Secret Service is failing them,” Chaffetz said Monday on “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.”
Pierson will face tough questions at an already-scheduled hearing on Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee.
A Republican from Utah who sits on the committee, said he wants to know why an audible alarm in the White House had been muted after ushers said it was making too many noises.
And shortly after the incident earlier this month, the Secret Service issued a statement saying officers “showed tremendous restraint and discipline in dealing with” Gonzalez.
Chaffetz said he has a problem with that, too.
“I don’t want tremendous restraint,” he said. “I want to see overwhelming force to deter somebody. When you have the situation where you have the apparent lax security, you’re unfortunately going to invite more attacks. And that’s the concern.”
Pierson sent a letter to committee chairman Darrell Issa last Friday raising concerns about an holding open discussion on security issues and urged the chairman to allow some of her testimony to take place in a classified setting.
“Simply put, publicly airing the very security measures employed by the Secret Service and the various challenges we confront at the White House complex will arm those who desire to cause injury – or worse – to the President and First Family with critical information, and doing so would be beyond reckless,” Pierson wrote.
How the Secret Service could beef up White House security
CNN has learned from a Democratic source on the Oversight Committee that Issa has agreed to Pierson’s request, and will hold a separate, classified session on Tuesday.
The top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, praised the decision to protect the agency’s mission.
“This is not a Democratic issue or a Republican issue, but an American issue, and the last thing we should do is give people like Gonzalez a road map for how to attack the President or other officials,” Cummings said in a written statement to CNN.
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Readers: I agree with the reporter…”Restraint?” C’mon, bring the intruder down! This is the protection of the president of the United States and his family. This was not some thug on the streets; this was in the White House. If you can’t discern the difference or the degree of importance here, you shouldn’t be the Secret Service director. Yeah, I’m addressing you Ms. Pierson.
Now this morning we have the hearings going on questioning the Secret Service Director, Ms. Pierson, on why her agents did nothing. And they are drilling her…and rightly so. Did you watch? My opinion has not changed. This woman and all of the agents need to be fired. Obama has a big pair, no doubt, but when it comes to the actions, or lack thereof, from the Secret Service, he is being way too soft and lenient. This is his safety and the safety of his family. Fire them all.
And if that isn’t reason enough to be fired, Ms Pierson is also being drilled about the gun shots that were fired at the White House and entered into the White House in November 2011. The agents heard the gun shots, smelled the gun shots being fired, heard the sound of debris falling…and still did nothing. They claim that the gun shots were merely a construction vehicle backfiring nearby. Yeah…6-8 backfires. I don’t think so.
It wasn’t until days later that a housekeeper noticed some damage in the White House and found bullet holes. Wha’at??!! It takes no training to look around for evidence of bullet holes but it seems that the Secret Service didn’t bother to do something as simple as that. There lack of action shows very little concern for the safety of the First Family.
When the repub’s biggest goal is to destroy Obama, they will do whatever is necessary. The repub controlled House of Representatives put in place a drastic budget cut and the Secret Service had requested a staff reduction of over 300 employees in 2013. They also went from 13 training as year down to 6 and now there are no trainings. Not that less Secret Service agents should affect the ability of the ones on duty doing his or her job, nor do you need training to snoop around for bullet holes. The housekeeper certainly doesn’t have any training. All it takes is a little caring and curiosity. But when training is eliminated, what kind of message do you think this sends?
The media won’t address it but I will. Would these budget cuts and a reduction in Secret Service agents have been made if Obama was a white man? Is it unfair to say that if Obama was white, Gonzales would’ve been taken out? Not to mention that if Gonzales were black would he ever have been able to set foot inside of the White House, let alone have gotten in as far as he did, without being brought down?
This whole thing is shocking. Fire Ms Pierson and all the agents.
What are your thoughts? What are your questions? Blog me.
Aimee: As I mentioned, Ruth didn’t need anyone else to agree with her nomination of Mark, but I did ask if anyone else wanted to nominate him and you gave your vote. :) He is a member.
Lewis: I did a search and found this, “Hundreds of voters are disenfranchised by North Carolina’s new voting restrictions,” which is what I am assuming you are referring to. Do you know the verdict from last Thursday? I could not find it.
Dave: And according to the above quoted write, even Vets who were registered and whose registration was incorrectly terminated while he was away fighting for our country. Repubs will do whatever it takes to win.
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