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The Secret Service is investigating a drone that crashed at the White House on Monday. According to the Secret Service, the drone involved was a commercially available “quad-copter” drone that crashed into the South East side of the White House.

The Department of Homeland Security released an executive summary of its report on the Secret Service moments ago. The report recommends that the U.S. government replace the entire fence surrounding the perimeter of the White House. The report was drafted

Columnist Charles Krauthammer said that new anti-profiling policies issued by the Department of Justice were “self-contradictory” on Monday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel.  “The policy [is] entirely self-contradictory. Holder issued a statement saying that it [profiling] is not

As Republicans explore a short term continuing resolution for the Department of Homeland Security, Secretary Jeh Johnson asserted that it would be bad for the agency. “I know that there are some contemplating some form of short term CR for

Congressman Louie Gohmert said that if a fence is not good enough for the U.S.-Mexico border, it “should not be good enough for the White House” during a judiciary hearing on Wednesday.  Gohmert questioned the acting Secret Service Director about what

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) said that the “comedy of errors” by the Secret Service had him “very, very concerned” for the president’s safety in an interview on Friday’s “Real Story” on the Fox News Channel. Goodlatte reported

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service response to an armed intruder who jumped the fence and raced into the White House was complicated by muted alarms and radios, thick bushes on the lawn, unlocked doors and an officer inside who

Among the numerous exhibits at the FDR Library is one that shows First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt knew the benefits of female gun ownership. Her permit to carry a pistol, issued August 5, 1957, is on display. A tweet sent by

Police and security services are said to have upped security for tomorrow’s visit of President Tan of Singapore amidst concerns ISIS may use the visit to launch an attack. The State Visit is the first major event in London since

On Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on NBC, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) argued that while it isn’t entirely appropriate to overplay the Ebola outbreak for political purposes, the outbreak does feed the narrative that the federal government is inept in numerous

Every scandal in the Obama administration has a face. Who is in charge, then, of the response to the Ebola virus? For the Obamacare website debacle, Americans pointed to former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Department of Veterans

For the last three months, hackers had access to customer credit and debit card names, numbers and expiration dates at 395 Dairy Queen stores in the U.S. stores, according to news reports. The hackers installed the same “Backoff” malware on

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page said the American people have begun to question the competence of President Barack Obama. Page said, “I think both of these stories, the Ebola virus and ISIS

The White House had information two years ago indicating that one of their advance travel volunteers, the son of a major Democratic donor with ties to the White House, was involved in the Secret Service prostitution scandal. That former aide

Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent who served during the Obama administration, and a Republican candidate for Congress in Maryland, blasted the Obama administration for their “protect the crown approach” on Thursday’s broadcast of “The Real Story” on the

(AFP) China is waging an aggressive cyber-war against the United States that costs American business billions of dollars every year, Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey said Sunday. The FBI chief told CBS television’s “60 Minutes” program China topped

North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis will oppose any nominee to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder who doesn’t explicitly reject President Obama’s planned executive amnesty, his spokesman told Breitbart News. Tillis spokesman Daniel Keylin said in an email: President Obama

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said “85 percent” of the African-Americans he has discussed the recent lapses in protection by the Secret Service with think the failure to protect President Barack Obama is because of

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” mocked President Obama’s response to ISIS and the scandals in the Secret Service in a sketch satirizing the president’s interview with “60 Minutes.” After President Obama is asked whether the ISIS threat was underestimated, he responds,

President Obama has a history of pointing out the restrictive lifestyle behind the tight security of the Secret Service, frequently explaining how much he misses his personal freedom.  “Shortly after I had been elected — Bill can relate to this

MSNBC’s “Hardball” anchor Chris Matthews declared that President Obama had become a “custodian of bad news” and appeared to argue the president had started becoming “lazy” in his second term on Wednesday.  “Let’s get tough here. Is this the problem

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called for an independent probe into the Secret Service during her Wednesday press conference.  “There has to be an independent investigation as to what is going on in the Secret Service. The protection of the

Director of the Secret Service Julia Pierson has resigned after days of controversy after a fence jumper breached security and made it into the East Room at the White House.  The news came Wednesday afternoon after a series of lawmakers

Former Secret Service agent and author of “Within Arm’s Length,” Dan Emmett argued that the military should provide additional security at the White House on Wednesday’s broadcast of “@This Hour” on CNN.  “What I’m advocating is that the military, as

Wednesday House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) backed Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who earlier reportedly called for Julia Pierson, the Director of Secret Service, to step down, a day after she testified on the many security breaches during a House hearing.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) sounded off on the lapses of the Secret Service’s protection of the White House on the day following a hearing that included testimony from Julia Pierson, the head of

WASHINGTON (AP) — Published reports say President Barack Obama rode an elevator this month with an armed security contractor who had three criminal convictions, a violation of Secret Service security protocols. The latest embarrassment for the Secret Service comes after

Upon revelations on Tuesday at a congressional hearing that the Secret Service’s statement on the recent fence-jumping incident was inaccurate because Omar Gonzalez was not apprehended after entering the building as originally claimed, but had actually made it to the

The Daily Caller’s Derek Hunter caught yet another stealth edit at the Washington Post, a publication notorious for secretly rewriting its news pages without any sort of editorial note. In this case, the Washington Post changed its mind about letting

Secret Service Director Julia Pierson admitted that “mistakes were made” by agents for allowing a fence jumper to enter the White House before apprehending him. Pierson said that the review would help the agency identify the facts, learn from the

During the House Oversight Hearing on White House security, Secret Service Director Julia Pierson had difficulty explaining why a housekeeper discovered evidence that shots had hit the White House while Secret Service agents failed to discover it. Under direct questioning