Congressman: Secret Service Should Install ADT at the White House

[LiberalElite]

Source: ThinkProgress

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A Republican congressman elicited laughs during a House Oversight Committee hearing into the Sep. 19th security breach at the White House when he suggested that the Secret Service install a home security system to protect the president’s residence from intrusions.

“If someone opens a window or a window is broken at my house, I have an alarm,” Rep. John Mica (R-FL) explained in questioning Secret Service Director Julia Pierson about how an intruder was able to jump over the White House fence and run into the president’s residence before being apprehended by agents in the East Room.

Mica then held up a sign displaying the logo for ADT, a Florida-based home security system.
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Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/home/2014/09/30/3573937/congressman-secret-service-should-install-adt-security-and-pointy-plants-to-protect-the-white-house/

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I'm not laughing.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Maybe the NSA could pitch in, if they're not too busy .

[7962]

2. Ahhhhhh, look at you!! Good one!

[tularetom]

3. How droll!

That guy's a million laughs.

Fucking idiot.

[donco]

4. At the very least

they should lock the front door to the White House.

[Brigid]

5. Bless me Father, for I have sinned.

I laughed at this joke.

[C Moon]

6. Of course, he'd be the first to scream if this idea had been put forth.

I hate HATE the GOP.
And this is what he gets paid to do? Comedy?

[yeoman6987]

8. Well the Secret Service sure think their job is a joke

[cosmicone]

7. NSA should have known from the guy's phone calls and emails

what he was up to.

If NSA cannot catch someone so elementary with all the snooping, it is really shocking.

Perhaps NSA could be useful by setting up a hotline for people to inquire about which restaurants have a long wait vs a short wait and which business' parking lot has space.

[Jackpine Radical]

19. Maybe they could run a referral service for South American hookers.

[Travis_0004]

9. I'm surprised they kicked him out

I thought if you jumped the fence you were allowed to stay.

[ReRe]

10. Life is a beach to most Republicans.

... Like a white teenage spoiled-brat punk with no respectability about himself (think Mitt Romney as a youth.) You know... they almost got away with their "concern" over the lax security around the WH. But then this Republican John Mica finally steps in it. Blows their cover. Leave up to a Republican to crack a totally inappropriate comment. It was probably a subliminal suggestion at privatizing the Secret Service.

I didn't find it amusing either, LiberalElite

[LiberalElite]

12. It looked like free advertising - yes, another poster in I think another forum

alluded to how the SS has been affected by the GOP budget cuts, and how the GOP wants to privatize everything. I remembered that when I saw this headline - I immediately looked up ADT's political contributions but was surprised to learn its given much more to Democrats than Repugs.

[freshwest]

21. ^^^^THERE IT IS^^^^

[LiberalFighter]

11. ADT's response would be worse than the Secret Service.

[reddread]

16. ADT was used by a certain political sect to help bankrupt Pacifica

[Raine1967]

18. ? could you provide more info?

Pacifica Radio? (please pardon my lack of info)

[reddread]

20. check this out

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2001/08/9533.php

[Raine1967]

24. Thank you for that! eom

[rurallib]

28. that was quite interesting

wish it was updated to today

[reddread]

29. I know, plus many important details from that era are missing

the dismissal of popular, excellent staffer/volunteer/on air people like Mama O'Shea
and Bill Mandel.
They were shuffled off by political pressure under what President and what Party?
Mama O'Shea, one of the sweetest and most gifted persons to enable on air
real time organizing, made Judi Bari an even bigger threat leading to her bombing
by FBI associates. that whole nasty affair alone...
\
but who did this network give that time slot to?
why, Jerry Brown, the LEAST gifted and most abominable person you ever heard on the radio.
using that show right until he declared for Mayor of Oakland!
easily, for me, the lowest point in our media history as a nation,
and of course a swell education in how liberal media is verboten in the US.

[Purveyor]

13. Or at least outsource to Academi, Formerly known as "Blackwater" and "Xe Services. eom

[misterhighwasted]

14. Did the GOP Congressman just invoke Privatizing the SService

Am surprised the subject hasn't already come up. Imagine the money to be made.
You know some private contractor is itching to have a shot at this. And the Corporate owned GOP is willing to undermine the SService by underfunding.
Same MO they have used to privatize every other govt funded program.
They get more & we get less, for our taxes.

[LiberalElite]

15. That's how it looked to me nt

[liberal N proud]

26. It would fit their style

Wouldn't it?

[Madmiddle]

17. These are the most disrespectful bunch of pricks ever in government...

The racism of the clowns is most obvious ever time the open their ignorant mouths. There's nothing in the Republican party that even looks like there could be a brain trust.

[christx30]

25. I didn't see anything racist

about these comments. The Secret Service hasn't done a good job lately in keeping intruders away from the White House. This guy got way too far into the building before he was nabbed.
This was a little jab at the USSS.
And since when is respect an important detail? If it were a republican in the White House, we would all be making jabs at him. He's getting points for his team. Part of politics as I've understood it has been about making fun of the other team. That's just the nature of the business. You don't get into it unless you have a thick skin, and ready to encounter disrespect.

[jmowreader]

22. Let's just install competent Secret Service personnel at the White House

[AngryOldDem]

23. Neither am I.

Damn scary. Especially the latest report of a felon with a gun being allowed to ride a small service elevator with Obama.

[wolfie001]

27. Mica is a ...........

.....pinky-ringed, anti-Union jackass. Anyone voting for this moron who earns below $150,000 per annum needs their head examined.