your security and surveillance failed....and your solution is to further remove the citizen from seeing the 'People's House'?
UPDATED: And here we go:
Secret Service considers a larger buffer zone around the White House
After an unprecedented security breach Friday night at the White House, the U.S. Secret Service is weighing a series of measures that would move tourists and D.C. residents farther away from the complex to reduce the chances of intruders piercing its security perimeter and endangering the president.
One proposal is to keep people off the sidewalks around the White House fence and create several yards of additional barrier around the compound’s perimeter. Another is to screen visitors as far as a block away from the entrance gates.
How in the world can there have been a breach of the White House to the point that the house itself was entered?
ReplyDeleteWhy wasn't that front door locked?
I'm half speculating here, but a lot of people go in and out of those front doors throughout the day. WH staff expects the permitter security to stop anybody from getting close.
DeleteThat said, even the Wiki entry of publicly known and named intruders on the grounds, is lengthy. This is not an isolated occurrence.
That's the best way to hide their incompetence.
ReplyDeleteProbably. Though I do know a few USSS agents [next door neighbor being one] and most are consummate professionals. Any decision to extend the permitter will be made by agency bureaucrats.
DeleteAm I the only one who wonders why the door was unlocked?
ReplyDeleteooops. AOW seems troubled by this also.
DeleteDuck,
DeleteIt does seem strange to me that any front door in D.C. is unlocked -- well, except for museums and the like.
They are at least practicing what they preach, unintentionally at least. "Everything's fine, there's no need for a border fence. No need to lock your doors. National security is stronger than ever."
ReplyDeleteThis kind of reminds me of their "solution" to air traffic controllers falling asleep; hiring additional folks whose sole job it was to make sure that they didn't fall asleep.
ReplyDeleteThe "solution" to air traffic controllers falling asleep on the job is to fire them and hope that they are blackballed from further employment.
DeleteThe Left has a problem with air traffic controllers. I remember when a bunch of them quit their jobs suddenly in the hopes that it would crash planes, and they would get more money as a result. Reagan fired these dangerous and greedy individuals (one of the great things he did), but the Left made them heroes.
I'da fired 'em, that's for certain.
DeleteWill: That is because you believe that being paid for work doesn't mean being paid to sleep or loaf about at home.
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