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 Ouze wrote:

It's a good start.


See, I'm not so sure about that. Resignations tend to be used as cover for deeper issues, which will ultimately not be resolved. It is the big boy version of the ALS water bucket.

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Damn...she just recently came into the job......the bullet holes in the White House though......over a short period of time or over a long period of time eh...

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Hire me to be head of the Secret Service. No one will get within a mile of the White House. THE STREETS WILL RUN RED WI...


I mean, I will be very proactive.
   
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His approval ratings are rock bottom as it is, he's not getting a third term, so go wild, Barack!



He wouldn't get a third term even if his approval ratings were through the roof.

   
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 dogma wrote:
 Ouze wrote:

It's a good start.


See, I'm not so sure about that. Resignations tend to be used as cover for deeper issues, which will ultimately not be resolved. It is the big boy version of the ALS water bucket.


My thought is - perhaps wrongfully - the incoming director might be more serious about cleaning house. It's seemed like the Secret Service is a deeply troubled agency for some years now.

What would a better way to resolve deep, systemic issues? I mean, how do you hold a federal agency accountable if that's off the table? I mean, a dude with a loaded gun was in an elevator with POTUS; I can't even consider a worse security breach short of president actually getting shot or stabbed.

Also, I know the Secret Service no longer is part of Treasury but I'm pretty sure (not positive) that they still investigate counterfeiting.

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Hire me to be head of the Secret Service. No one will get within a mile of the White House. THE STREETS WILL RUN RED WI...


I mean, I will be very proactive.


I want accurate and I mean ACCURATE RANGE CARDS!!

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Is her stepping down going to be the last hearings on this, or will there be more probing of Fenceghazi?


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Well. Secret Service has become extremely complacent

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 Ouze wrote:
Is her stepping down going to be the last hearings on this, or will there be more probing of Fenceghazi?



The one time (whatever)gate would have made sense and you went (whatever)ghazi. A damned shame.

 Jihadin wrote:
 Bromsy wrote:
Hire me to be head of the Secret Service. No one will get within a mile of the White House. THE STREETS WILL RUN RED WI...


I mean, I will be very proactive.


I want accurate and I mean ACCURATE RANGE CARDS!!


Every inch of the one mile "Transparency and Respect Zone" will be dialed in by the White House Press Corps - now armed with Freedom of Information-friendly 120mm Mortars.

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Sorry, gate is old and busted, ghazi is the new hotness.

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 Ouze wrote:
Sorry, gate is old and busted, ghazi is the new hotness.


Elvis didn't die, he just went over the fence.

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 dogma wrote:
 Ouze wrote:
Sorry, gate is old and busted, ghazi is the new hotness.


Elvis didn't die, he just went over the fence.


Latest news from Zimmghazi?

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As an update to this:

Not telling Obama of elevator breach was 'final straw' for Pierson, source says
By CNN's Jake Tapper


Washington (CNN) -- There had been "growing concern" about former U.S. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson's leadership in the two weeks since a man with a knife managed to jump the White House fence and get into the East Room, a source tells CNN.

But the "final straw," the source said, was that she and the agency did not inform the president about a September 16 breach at the CDC in Atlanta -- in which a private contractor who had a concealed gun shared an elevator with President Barack Obama -- until just before the media reported it on Tuesday afternoon.

"The problems about the elevator breach were a) that it happened, b) that no one told the White House about it in the midst of two weeks of many discussions with them about security and then c) that the president didn't find out till just before the media was about to report it," the source said, agreeing that "final straw" would be an apt description of that event.

The source, who spoke to CNN anonymously so as to speak more candidly about sensitive events, said that there was every reason to believe Pierson and Secret Service leadership took the September 19 fence jumper incident "very seriously," though White House officials were not pleased with how facts and details about that incident kept changing, both in public media accounts and to them privately.

That, however, could be explained and understood, the source said, given the "fog" of conflicting accounts inherent in such an intense and adrenaline-filled event.

There was no such understanding about why, two weeks after the September 16 elevator incident at the CDC, the President was not informed until just before the Washington Examiner and Washington Post were prepared to share details of that event with the world.

There was no going back; she had lost Obama's confidence that she was the right person to run the agency.

On Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said he had accepted Pierson's resignation and was appointing an independent panel to investigate the White House breach.

Presidents are loath to publicly criticize the Secret Service for fear of straining any relations with the agents who keep them alive and protect their loved ones. So perhaps it was left to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who told reporters in Nevada on Wednesday, "I am just so disappointed in what I've seen. I can't imagine being a father of two girls and seeing this happen in my home. I'll bet Michelle is just beside herself -- they are so protective of those two girls. So I can't be a cheerleader of the Secret Service today."

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That's not surprising at all.

I want to say that I have heard in the past that even local PD is not allowed to carry around the POTUS (honestly don't know it that is true). So having a random contractor that close to him would be enough for me to throw a fit if I was president.
   
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 d-usa wrote:


I want to say that I have heard in the past that even local PD is not allowed to carry around the POTUS (honestly don't know it that is true). So having a random contractor that close to him would be enough for me to throw a fit if I was president.




See now, if Rick Perry were the President, he wouldn't worry about someone being armed in an elevator... Unless the person armed had a larger caliber than he did
   
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 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
 d-usa wrote:


I want to say that I have heard in the past that even local PD is not allowed to carry around the POTUS (honestly don't know it that is true). So having a random contractor that close to him would be enough for me to throw a fit if I was president.




See now, if Rick Perry were the President, he wouldn't worry about someone being armed in an elevator... Unless the person armed had a larger caliber than he did


There are three things that Rick Perry would agree with about your comment: That he is armed, sometimes in an elevator, and uh... um.

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 Ouze wrote:
 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
 d-usa wrote:


I want to say that I have heard in the past that even local PD is not allowed to carry around the POTUS (honestly don't know it that is true). So having a random contractor that close to him would be enough for me to throw a fit if I was president.




See now, if Rick Perry were the President, he wouldn't worry about someone being armed in an elevator... Unless the person armed had a larger caliber than he did


There are three things that Rick Perry would agree with about your comment: That he is armed, sometimes in an elevator, and uh... um.


Same pain meds as him there Ouze?

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