Checkpoints around White House may be coming

[jakeXT]

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service is having preliminary discussions about setting up security screening checkpoints near public areas around the White House, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press Sunday.

The official said the measures have been discussed by the agency previously. But the talks have taken on added urgency following an incident Friday in which a man carrying a knife jumped over a gate around the White House and made it to a building entrance.

The official insisted on anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss internal deliberations by name.

The Secret Service tightened security outside the White House after the embarrassing breach, in which Omar J. Gonzalez, 42, of Copperas Cove, Texas, climbed the fence, ran across the lawn and entered the building before agents stopped him.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/09/21/checkpoints-white-house/16031279/

[Cooley Hurd]

1. *sigh*

I remember being able to drive by the North Portico on Pennsylvania Ave not too long ago.

[merrily]

2. But not able to enter the North Portico at night.

[merrily]

3. The story that they did not stop him because he "appeared"

mentally ill and unarmed is obviously a lie. I cannot even believe they bothered with that one.

That is all.