Washington Post: White House Fence-Jumper Made It Far Deeper Into Building Than Previously Known

[PAProgressive28]

"The man who jumped the White House fence this month and sprinted through the front door made it much farther into the building than previously known, overpowering one Secret Service officer and running through much of the main floor, according to three people familiar with the incident.

An alarm box near the front entrance of the White House designed to alert guards to an intruder had been muted at what officers believed was a request of the usher’s office, said a Secret Service official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The female officer posted inside the front door appeared to be delayed in learning that the intruder, Omar Gonzalez, was about to burst through. Officers are trained that, upon learning of an intruder on the grounds, often through the alarm boxes posted around the property, they must immediately lock the front door.

After barrelling past the guard immediately inside the door, Gonzalez, who was carrying a knife, dashed past the stairway leading a half-flight up to the first family’s living quarters. He then ran into the 80-foot-long East Room, an ornate space often used for receptions or presidential addresses.

Gonzalez was tackled by a counter-assault agent at the far southern end of the East Room. The intruder reached the doorway to the Green Room, a parlor overlooking the South Lawn with artwork and antique furniture, according to three people familiar with the incident."

Full Story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-fence-jumper-made-it-far-deeper-into-building-than-previously-known/2014/09/29/02efd53e-47ea-11e4-a046-120a8a855cca_story.html?wpmk=MK0000203

[procon]

1. The usher’s office turned off the security system???

Isn't that the office that manages the WH staff and oversees entertainment events? This is massively incompetence on the part of the Secret Service. Not only did someone approve disabling the alarm system in the president's family residence, but then why didn't anyone ever do routine checks to test that it was in good working order, and then when the malfunction was discovered why wasn't it ever reported or repaired? This is criminal negligence and there is no excuse for that kind of dereliction of duty... so WHY did it happen?!!

[trof]

8. A right wing mole in the Secret Service who wants the President taken out.

That's my conspiracy theory, and I'm stickin' to it.

But seriously folks, this breach of Whitehouse security is inexcusable.
Heads need to roll.
They are not doing their job.

[spanone]

2. what were the snipers on the roof doing? Zzzzzzzzzzzzz......?

[sheshe2]

3. The full story needs to be read.

I don't like these breaches I am reading about here. This is scary stuff.


The night bullets hit the White House
— and the Secret Service didn’t know

Text by Carol D. Leonnig, Published: Sept. 28, 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/white-house-shooting/



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[heaven05]

12. Never during Herr Bush's reign

yet 7 bullets hit this house! RW mole in the SS seems plausible. Some agents have to be racist, it's just percentages really.

[sheshe2]

13. It scares the heck out of me heaven.

Unsaid and never stated til now, I fear for him.

[babylonsister]

4. Sounds like they've been trying to

control the info coming out in both cases (this one and the shots fired); afraid to look inept? I think they're proving they are.

[mfcorey1]

5. This is not good.

[Skidmore]

6. Well, are we concerned about the safety of the First Family, or

the artwork and antique furniture in the room? That is a jarring sentence. The public deserves some answers.

[City Lights]

7. This is absolutely awful.

Someone better be held accountable.

[Major Hogwash]

9. Kicked and recommended.

Because now I am positive that some of the know-it-alls that were spewing crap here last week don't have a single thing to say about this incident as more details are released!!!!

[Aerows]

10. Ridiculous

Someone needs to lose their job and their pension over this.

[heaven05]

11. shoddy protection

wonder why? On purpose or just incompetence? One must wonder with the current hate expressed toward the first family because of their RACE!!!! Yeah and I'm going to keep saying that this stinks to high heaven!

[Enrique]

14. it was just the White House

if he tried that at Wal Mart he'd be dead.

[Enrique]

15. wtf?

we can put a man on the moon, but we can't fix alarms at the White House, we have to turn them off?

Chaffetz said he plans to ask Pierson how an alarm meant to alert officers to intruders could be silenced or turned down. The congressman said two people inside the agency told him that boxes were silenced because the White House usher staff, whose office is near the front door, complained they were noisy. A Secret Service official told The Post that the usher’s office was concerned the boxes were frequently malfunctioning and unnecessarily sounding off.

[Iggo]

16. A muted bell is a disabled alarm

Fucking morons.