Is Barack Obama's life safe in the Secret Service's hands?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

UK Telegraph:

A knife-wielding intruder allowed to run rampant through the first floor of the White House. Bullets that struck the window of Barack Obama's private residence but went unnoticed for days. A presidential bodyguard so drunk he passed out in hallway of a hotel.

These are just some of the recent incidents that have shaken confidence in the Secret Service, the elite agency assigned to protect Mr Obama, his family and the White House.

On Tuesday, Julia Pierson, the Secret Service's director, will face a grilling from members of Congress and a battle to convince them that her agents are up to the task of protecting the world's most powerful man.

The hearing was called after a September 19 incident, when the Secret Service allowed Omar Gonzales, a troubled Iraq war veteran, to scale the White House fence and go through the unlocked front door of the executive mansion.

Gonzales, who was carrying a knife in his pocket, was apparently intent on warning Mr Obama that "the atmosphere was collapsing".

Footage shows him limping across the White House's north lawn, unchallenged by agents on the ground or the sharpshooters on the roof.

He then burst past a guard and ran through the White House's first floor before finally being tackled in the East Room, a gilded space where Mr Obama often gives speeches and press conferences, according to the Washington Post.

But members of Congress will have questions about the Secret Service's competence beyond this month's incident.

Gonzales was arrested in July with 11 guns in his car, including high-power rifles with scopes, and a map on which he had drawn a line to the White House. He was let free but weeks later was stopped outside the White House with a hatchet tucked inside his trousers. Again, he was let go.

His breach of the White House's elaborate security perimeter is just the latest in a series of mistakes made by an agency that prides itself on silent professionalism.

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However much you might dislike Obama, these incidents are extremely troubling to say the least.

[Valin]

 

Is Barack Obama's life safe in the Secret Service's hands?

 

 

Oh I hope/pray it is....Barack Obama being killed is the last thing this country needs!

[Cyber_Liberty]

 

 

Is Barack Obama's life safe in the Secret Service's hands?

 

 

Oh I hope/pray it is....Barack Obama being killed is the last thing this country needs!

 

Quite right. I've been praying for his good health since the first miserable day.

[SrWoodchuck]

[Valin]

 

 

 

Don't just springs this at us, give us some warning. Some of us have weak stomachs, There are children who come here, click on the link and be scared for life.

Even Dieter (my evil twin) is cowering in the corner and mumbling to himself.

[Draggingtree]

This is Unacceptable

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[Pepper]

@WestVirginiaRebel

 

I don't think the question is

 

"Is Barack Obama's life safe in the Secret Service's hands?"

 

instead, it should be

 

"How is the Secret Service supposed to protect this particular President under his Rules of Optics and Public Perception Engagement?"

[Valin]