What is it, not enough vim and vigor pushing the wars forward?
"Armed man with criminal record rode elevator with Obama in Atlanta" by Carol D. Leonnig | Washington Post October 01, 2014
WASHINGTON — A security contractor with a gun and three prior convictions for assault and battery was allowed on an elevator with President Obama during a Sept. 16 trip to Atlanta, violating Secret Service protocols, according to three people familiar with the incident.
Obama was not told of the lapse in his security, these people said. The Secret Service director, Julia Pierson, asked a top agency manager to review the matter, but did not refer it to an investigative unit that was created to review violations of protocol and standards, according to two people familiar with the case who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The incident, which took place as Obama visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to discuss the US response to the Ebola crisis, rattled Secret Service agents assigned to the president’s protective detail.
The private contractor first aroused agents’ concerns when he was acting oddly and did not comply with their orders that he stop using a phone camera to record the president in the elevator, according to the people familiar with the incident.
When the elevator opened, Obama left with most of his Secret Service detail. Some agents stayed behind to question the man, and then used a national database check to learn of his criminal history.
When a supervisor from the firm providing security at the CDC approached and discovered the agents’ concerns, the contractor was fired on the spot. Then the contractor agreed to turn over his gun — surprising agents, who had not realized he was armed during his encounter with Obama.
Are we being programmed for an assassination or just being played?
Extensive screening is supposed to keep people with either weapons or criminal histories out of arm’s reach of the president. But it appears this man came within inches of the president after undergoing no such screening.
Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, who heads a House subcommittee that oversees the Secret Service, first heard of the breakdown from a whistle-blower. The Washington Post confirmed details of the event with people familiar with the agency’s review.
‘‘You have a convicted felon within arm’s reach of the president and they never did a background check,’’ Chaffetz said. ‘‘Words aren’t strong enough for the outrage I feel.”
Chaffetz added: ‘‘His life was in danger. This country would be a different world today if he had pulled out his gun.’’
Like after 9/11. Is that what TPTB are thinking? Kill the guy and we will all be on board the war agenda again, or will it simply be an excuse to tackle down with more tyranny?
Let's get something straight: as much as I despise this failed and tremendously disappointing president I'm not up for some framed patsy being blamed for offing a president when I won't be buying it, nor will anyone else. This lone nut gunman all the time stuff, pfffft!
Why even bother wasting time or energy on this miserable failures called leaders anyway? Let him wallow in the self-created hell he's made for himself for his last two years.
A Secret Service official, speaking on behalf of the agency, said there is an ongoing investigation into the incident. The official declined to provide a public comment, citing the pending review.
A White House spokesman declined to comment on the incident, or say when, or if, the president had been informed.
Under a security program called the Arm’s Reach Program, Secret Service advance staff run potential staff, contractors, hotel employees, invited guests, and volunteers through several databases.
Yeah, a failure in SS protection is the surest sign of foreknowledge and an inside job.
Anyone who is found to have a criminal history, mental illness, or other indications of risk is barred from entry.
Odd that those people are not allowed through to get near the psychopathic war criminals that are being protected.
Local police and federal officers are not checked in the same way. But private security contractors would typically be checked, two former agents who worked on advance planning for presidential trips said.
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Then there are the election-year, COAs show hearings on the Hill:
"Lawmakers blast Secret Service director at hearing" by Michael D. Shear and Michael S. Schmidt | New York Times October 01, 2014
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress declared Tuesday that they had lost confidence in the Secret Service to protect President Obama and his family and raised serious doubts that Julia Pierson, the director of the agency, was the right person to confront what they called systemic problems and a striking lack of candor about recent security breaches.
What is Obama doing wrong?
After three hours of combative questioning by members of a House panel, lawmakers from both parties called for an independent investigation of a bureaucracy they said could no longer police itself and was endangering the very people it is sworn to protect.
It wouldn't be the first time. There was that thing in Dallas about 50 years ago when some guy got half his head blown off.
Pierson defended her agency, but she repeatedly acknowledged that “mistakes were made” by agents and officers as they ignored standard protocols for responding to threats.
Doesn't help the image, and will be unacceptable were this president to fall victim to an assassin.
Look, I don't even like him and I'm totally opposed to him being killed. That's a huge steaming stinker in these times.
Notably, Pierson did not explain why Secret Service officials initially misled the public about how far inside the White House an armed intruder, Omar J. Gonzalez, managed to get on Sept. 19.
I think I can explain that: it is WHAT THEY DO!
Officials originally said Gonzalez was unarmed and had been captured just inside the door of the North Portico, but later acknowledged that the intruder carried a small knife and had made it through the Entrance Hall, the Cross Hall, and into the East Room before being tackled just outside the Green Room.
How can we believe anything they say anymore? I mean, really?
Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, accused the Secret Service of “misleading by omission” and said the agency had not been forthcoming about other recent incidents.
They act like a newspaper sometimes.
“I seriously question their candor to Congress and the American people about what is really going on,” Chaffetz said after the hearing. “We are having to pull it out of them.”
That does seem to be the only way to get any semblance of truth (or anything else) from them, yeah.
Representative Stephen F. Lynch of Massachusetts lashed into Pierson during the hearing, saying he had “very low confidence” in her leadership and her agency’s ability to secure the executive mansion. He suggested she was more interested in obscuring what really happened on Sept. 19 than in security against intruders or terrorists.
“I wish to God you protected the White House like you’re protecting your reputation here today,” said Lynch, Democrat of South Boston. “I don’t think the Secret Service is taking their duty to protect the American president and his family at the White House — I don’t think you’re taking it seriously.”
At a briefing Tuesday, Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said the president continued to have confidence in Pierson and the agency, but he returned several times to the idea that there is a “legitimate public interest” in disclosing what happened. Earnest said the Secret Service should release accurate information as soon as possible.
Now this is looking like a play for sympathy since this White House is far from transparent and has been one of the most secretive in history.
Representative Darrell Issa of California, the Republican chairman of the panel, said he and the ranking Democrat would soon send a letter to the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security demanding the appointment of an outsider to lead an inquiry into the agency.
Although Pierson promised a comprehensive internal review of the incidents, her pledge appeared to do little to satisfy members of the committee.
Under questioning by members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Pierson said that an outer glass door at the North Portico remained unlocked after the intruder breached the fence and that an inner, wooden door was in the process of being hand-locked when the intruder came through the doors.
She said the Secret Service had since installed an automatic lock on the door, which drew a tongue-in-cheek response from Issa.
“We learn from our mistakes,” he said.
Pierson, who said she took “full responsibility” for the security failure, also offered new details about the route that Gonzalez took inside the White House.
Oh, what pile of bullish** do you now want me to believe?
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Shortly after the hearing, the US attorney’s office in Washington said Gonzalez had been indicted by a grand jury on charges of unlawfully entering a restricted government building while carrying a weapon. The grand jury also indicted Gonzalez on charges of carrying a dangerous weapon in public and unlawfully possessing ammunition.
The ammunition, along with two hatchets and a machete, was found in his car after the incident. Gonzalez will make his first court appearance to face the charges Wednesday.
Why did he leave that behind, or was it all planted?
That kind of thing has been done before.
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Related: Obama Could Have Been Beheaded By ISIS
They landed an agent in Oklahoma from what I heard:
"Oklahoma man charged with murder in beheading of co-worker" by Timothy Williams and Michael S. Schmidt | New York Times October 01, 2014
NEW YORK — Federal officials said they had found no links between him and Islamic extremist groups that have beheaded several Western hostages in the Middle East and North Africa in recent weeks.
The accused, Alton Nolen, 30, had made inflammatory statements about white people. Nolen is African-American.
So it was a racial thing then, and Obummer never under any threat.
Greg Mashburn, the district attorney for Cleveland County, where the attack occurred, said Nolen had used “some Arabic terms during the attack,” but did not specify what he had said. Nolen is a recent convert to Islam.
Oh, no, (stink)!!
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The F.B.I. uncovered evidence that Mr. Nolen, who called himself Jah’Keem Yisrael on social media, had looked at a wide range of religious materials, from the Bible to information related to Al Qaeda.
Oh, no, it's another bogus frame-up and patsy plot nonsense created by the FBI!!
It's a RIVER of PSYOPS these days!
“It’s a mixed bag so far. Beyond being fired, we haven’t found another motive,” the official said. The official said that the F.B.I. was attempting to discern whom Mr. Nolen interacted with online.
Oh, it's all an employment issue? Ugh!
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Same drill as yesterday for certain items:
Steamship wreck from 1926 found in Lake Ontario
2015 Westminster pack to include 2 new breeds
I thought I recognized the smell.
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
"Secret Service director resigns after harsh bipartisan criticism; Julia Pierson drew outcry over lapses" by Cat Zakrzewski | Globe Correspondent October 02, 2014
WASHINGTON — Obama named Julia Pierson to the agency’s top post 18 months ago in an attempt to turn the agency’s image around following a prostitution scandal. She was the first female director of the agency, in which she had served for 30 years.
Mistakes and scandals have plagued the Secret Service for much of Obama’s time in office. In November 2009 a Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, were able to enter Obama’s first state dinner, an event honoring Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India. At the time, Michaele Salahi was auditioning for a role in “The Real Housewives of Washington” television series. It was later reported that proper procedures were not followed when she and her husband passed through a security checkpoint....
Related: Secret Service Sending Smoke Signals to U.S. Public
In April 2012, it was revealed that Secret Service agents in Colombia, doing work in advance of a presidential visit, had hired prostitutes, a scandal that prompted several hearings and investigations. The Secret Service’s director, Mark Sullivan, retired amid the controversy, and Pierson was given the job with the mission of reforming the agency.
That also all seems to have been forgotten, and what all this tells you is the Secret Service knows assassinations are inside jobs and false flags. Then a lone nut patsy that has been sheep-dipped is trotted out to take the fall and advance the agenda.
That's why the Secret Service is derelict in its duty; there are no threats to the president other than those created by this government itself or those it works for.
Obama hailed her at the time as exemplifying the agency’s “spirit and dedication,” calling her “eminently qualified to lead the agency that not only safeguards Americans at major events and secures our financial system, but also protects our leaders and our first families, including my own.”
I'm tired of that liar and his imagery, but not enough to martyr him.
But the fact that an Army veteran of the Iraq war, Omar Gonzalez, had made it so far gave rise to fears that a team of armed terrorists might try to replicate the intrusion. That led to calls on Capitol Hill for an independent investigation of what happened....
You see where this is all leading, right?
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Also see: Resignation won’t fix Secret Service woes
Maybe a resignation will fix this:
"Herald cartoonist apologizes for ‘naive’ reference" by Andy Rosen | Globe Staff October 02, 2014
Boston Herald cartoonist Jerry Holbert apologized Wednesday for what many readers perceived as a racist jab at President Obama. The editorial cartoon, which ran in Wednesday’s Herald, was in reference to news that Omar Gonzalez, the Iraq war veteran who ran into the White House, had managed to get farther into the mansion than originally reported. Holbert’s cartoon shows Obama brushing his teeth as a man sits in a bathtub and asks if the president has “tried the new watermelon flavored toothpaste.” Many online readers reacted angrily to the cartoon, saying it was racist in regard to an African-American president. Governor Deval Patrick called the editorial “offensive” and “stupid,” and said he “hopes there comes a day we can expect a different kind of sensitivity than we saw in this cartoon.” Holbert tried to explain himself on Boston Herald Radio. “I had no intention at all of offending anybody. I thought this was a very lighthearted cartoon,” he said, claiming he chose the flavor because he enjoys watermelon-flavored candy. “Naive, stupid, those kinds of things, I understand. But racist I’m definitely not.” Holbert said the syndicate that distributes his work to other publications had asked him, citing the racial concern, to change the flavor to raspberry, and he agreed to do so. But, he said, the Herald was not contacted about making the change. “It was stupid on my part, but, you know, racism is sort of innately stupid, and I will not participate in that,” Holbert said. For its part, the Herald issued a statement expressing regret about the cartoon, but supporting Holbert, calling him a cartoonist of “utmost integrity.” “His cartoon satirizing the US Secret Service breach at the White House has offended some people and to them we apologize,” the Herald statement said. “His choice of imagery was absolutely not meant to be hurtful.”
