Officials: Fence jumper made it into East Room of White House

[lostinblue 1,989]

He is an Iraq war veteran. Yet another good guy with a gun gone bad.

DHS....

the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks

Sounds like all returning veterans are on a watch list... Unless you are of a certain faith....

[decocker 7,198]

Sounds like all returning veterans are on a watch list... Unless you are of a certain faith....

oh please do go on. what faith are you referring to?

we don't do nearly enough for veterans. it's embarassing.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

DHS....

the return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks

Sounds like all returning veterans are on a watch list... Unless you are of a certain faith....

Tell me what faith excuses you from being on a watch list. Because going through my SSBI to get my TS, my faith was called into question.

oh please do go on. what faith are you referring to?

we don't do nearly enough for veterans. it's embarassing.

You're being too kind. The VA hospitals are a joke on their best days...

[decocker 7,198]

You're being too kind. The VA hospitals are a joke on their best days...

i hear it both ways, actually. my grandfather, actually both of my grandfathers, had many ongoing issues with the va. but my younger miltary friends do not. then again, my younger military friends rarely deal with the va.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

i hear it both ways, actually. my grandfather, actually both of my grandfathers, had many ongoing issues with the va. but my younger miltary friends do not. then again, my younger military friends rarely deal with the va.

I used to take my grandfather to the VA here in STL. I pray your hospital doesn't look like mine....

[decocker 7,198]

I used to take my grandfather to the VA here in STL. I pray your hospital doesn't look like mine....

i believe that the closest va hospital to us is an hour away in west virginia and that is one of the bigger complaints. but like i said i don't know, i've never had to deal with it. i remember one night last summer we were all talking about the john stewart show and how he goes off on the va quite regularly. i asked my friend how bad it is and said he's not had any trouble, but then he's not in a position where he has to deal with them often and it's annoying to drive an hour away. or maybe there's another va hospital closer, but it's so bad he'd rather go an hour away. i don't remember..

[Pooky 3,843]

What gets me is the report that the emergency system was turned down, because the Ushers' office complained it was "too noisy".

Isn't that what it's supposed to be?

[LibCampFireClub 635]

The White House fence jumper, Ebola in the US, ISIS, and just about anything else are painting the picture of what the White House considers 'tremendous restraint', which should be rewarded. There's way too much tolerance being forced on the American people. Fortunately, Americans ain't buying it.

The Secret Service Thinks We Are Fools

Its excuses after this weekend's breach are ridiculous and revealing of a troubled culture. The agency needs a new, outside director to clean house.

If you want to know what is wrong with the Secret Service, take a look at the statement the agency issued after a deranged intruder managed to enter the White House for the first time since the Secret Service closed off public access to the mansion during World War II.

According to the Secret Service, the Uniformed Division officers who did nothing to apprehend 42-year-old Omar J. Gonzalez after he hopped over the White House fence “showed tremendous restraint.” The agency is so arrogant that it thinks it can make such an obviously ridiculous statement and the public will buy it because we are fools.

But the Secret Service is not fooling the FBI. Senior FBI officials are horrified by the Secret Service’s handling of the matter and are laughing at its effort to cover up its own failure by brazenly praising the officers’ “restraint.”

The FBI’s reaction is well founded. In protecting the White House, the Secret Service Uniformed Division officers and the Uniformed Division’s Emergency Response Team, armed with P90 submachine guns, are supposed to be the first line of defense. But they were either asleep or just not paying attention when Gonzales sprinted across the lawn. They thus failed to unleash the agency’s Belgian Malinois dogs, which are cross-trained to sniff out explosives and to attack an intruder and take him or her down.

Having failed to unleash the dogs in time, the officers should have taken out the intruder with a bullet. When it comes to protecting the president, officers and agents must make split-second decisions to avoid an assassination. Courts have given the Secret Service much wider latitude than other law enforcement agencies in use of deadly

force.

http://time.com/3421801/secret-service-white-house-security-breach/

Edited October 2, 2014 by ExExpat

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/29/politics/wh-fence-jumper/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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 Porti

Bush's fault

[UncleBeer 244]

Sign the White House petition to allow "fence-jumper" Gonzalez and his family to stay in the White House. After all, how's his situation different then the illegal border-crossers?

We urge President Obama to immediately and publicly recognize that Mr. Omar J. Gonzalez, an oppressed migrant, was merely looking for a better life when he entered the White House after going over the classist, divisive and needless fence.

In the interest of White House diversity and what will surely result in adding to the rich tapestry of love and community, we further demand that the President reform the mean-spirited laws regulating access to the People's House. For justice and peace, upon his next return from the back-nine, Mr. Obama must award permanent lawful WH residency to Mr. Gonzalez and his family, along with a permit to work there. Because.

END UNFAIR AND DEMEANING WHITE HOUSE ENTRY LAWS! JUSTICE FOR OMAR GONZALEZ AND ALL WHITE HOUSE MIGRANTS!