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From the Center
Secret Service Draws Fire Over Security LapsesThe Secret Service came under withering criticism on Tuesday over the recent White House security breach and amid new revelations that an armed felon rode an elevator with President Barack Obama days earlier.
Fresh details of the Sept. 19 intrusion, aired at a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday, revealed numerous security lapses that allowed Omar J. Gonzalez to get farther into the White House than previously known after he had scaled a fence and darted across the lawn. Mr. Gonzalez knocked over a Secret Service officer and hopscotched through the...
From the Right
Nancy Pelosi supports call for Secret Service chief to goSecret Service Director Julia Pierson House should be ousted from her job, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday, agreeing with the recommendation of the top Democrat on the oversight committee.
Mrs. Pelosi, the highest-ranking woman in American politics, said problems go beyond Ms. Pierson, who was put in charge of the Secret Service after a scandal involving agents who hired prostitutes in Cartagena in 2012. But Mrs. Pelosi said she accepts the analysis of Rep Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House oversight committee, who said he was displeased...
From the Left
Armed Outside Guard Was Allowed on Elevator With President, Officials SayAn armed private security guard rode in an elevator with President Obama when he visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Sept. 16, violating Secret Service protocols that only agents and officers for the agency should carry a gun around the president, according to law enforcement officials.
The incident was first reported by The Washington Examiner just hours after Julia Pierson, the director of the Secret Service, defended her agency on Capitol Hill as angry la
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