“Under withering criticism from Congress, the director of the Secret Service on Tuesday admitted failures in her agency’s critical mission of protecting the president but repeatedly sidestepped key questions about how a knife-carrying intruder penetrated ring after ring of security before finally being tackled deep inside the White House.
Despite the extraordinary lapses in the Sept. 19 incident, Julia Pierson asserted: “The president is safe today.”
Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike expressed the view that the latest breaches of White House security had blemished the storied agency, and several pressed for an independent inquiry into what went wrong. They were not assuaged by Pierson’s vow that “I’ll make sure that it does not happen again” or by the agency’s own investigation.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Alicia A Caldwell and Eileen Sullivan / Seattle Times:
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2024659535_apxsecretservice.html
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sorry cenk, im not with you on this one. if your dumb enough to jump the White House fence and take a run across the lawn, YES, you should be shot. No, THIS guy didnt have any explosives on him, but now all the R-Crazies see how easy it is to make it too the front steps and i bet you see more and more of this crap and how long is it til one of them blows themselves up running thru the front door with ass packed with C4.
If Obama got blowed up would i be sad? no. he has been pretty useless. but what if the next Pres is actually DOING something FOR the PEOPLE [not bankers and CEOs] and we lose someone that is actually WORTH something.
And as a foot note, dont be a douche and use a baby as an equal example.