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
During opening remarks of the House Oversight Committee, Chairman Darrell Issa questioned the recent security lapses of the Secret Service, reminding Americans of the enormous budget provided to the agency to protect the president. Issa said that it was obvious
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire during a protest on the Ethiopian Embassy grounds on Monday, according to a video of the incident, but no injuries were reported. A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said it had detained a
On Tuesday’s “Good Morning America” on ABC, network White House correspondent Jon Karl reacted to the new revelations that a White House intruder made it further than the Secret Service had previously disclosed. Karl explained to “Good Morning America” anchor
I can’t take my eyes off the saga of White House fence-jumper Oscar Gonzalez for a minute, without the story running behind my back and breaking the furniture or piddling on the carpet. Today’s worsening of the story comes from
It’s now being reported that up to seven shots hit the White House residence while some members of the first family were inside in November of 2011, yet the Secret Service supervisor’s order at the time was, “No shots have been
I’ve been scratching my head over the degeneration of the Secret Service, which has been in trouble quite a few times in recent years. Ronald Kessler, a leading critic of the agency (but generally a supporter of the agents) has
After Omar Jose Gonzales, 42, was arrested last Friday for jumping the White House fence and running inside, the Washington Post was informed of a classified mock attack on the White House security zone in the early 1990’s that showed the
In response to Outraged?: When I first saw the story making waves, yesterday, I too wondered if it was much ado about – well – not a very big deal, perhaps spurred on by Obama Derangement Syndrome. It wouldn’t
Chairman Darrell Issa of the House Oversight Committee has called for an investigative hearing after a man jumped the fence outside the White House and made it inside the unlocked front door before the Secret Service stopped him. The man,
Ronald Kessler, the author of “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the President,” who also broke the story about the Secret Service prostitution scandal in Colombia, said that the recent breaches of security at
Monday, CNN’s Jim Accosta reported that the alleged White House fence jumper, Omar Gonzalez, had disturbing encounters with law enforcement over the last few months. Accosta said, “On July 19, he was arrested in Virginia and charged with possession of a sawed off
The story of White House fence-jumper Omar J. Gonzalez continues to grow more… involved, as the original reports that he was completely unarmed were amended to reveal that he had a knife, and then… well, I’ll let Reuters tell the
On Friday a man jumped the White House security fence and made his way just inside the North Portico of the presidential residence before being arrested. The very next day, the Secret Service arrested a second man for refusing to
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of getting inside the White House after scaling a fence is a veteran who was awarded a medal for his service in Iraq and retired due to disability, the Army said Sunday. Authorities have
On Friday evening, a man hopped over the White House fence four minutes after President Barack Obama and his daughters had reportedly left, actually making it “inside the unlocked front doors of the presidential mansion” until “a guard stationed at
I don’t understand what’s going on with the Secret Service. For as far back as I can remember, they were one of the most respected agencies in federal law enforcement. Not perfect, mind you, but they had a generally excellent
Oceanside’s Ares Armor has stirred up controversy–and caught the eye of the Secret Service–with an AR-15 part called “Obama’s Blaster.” “Obama’s Blaster” is not a gun, but an upper receiver–a part for an AR-15 that has to be coupled with
(Reuters) – A man jumped over the White House fence and made it to the front doors of the executive mansion before being apprehended on Friday, sparking an evacuation within the complex shortly after President Barack Obama departed for the weekend. Omar
Police tracked down a man reported as a potential threat to President Barack Obama on Friday, delivering him into Secret Service custody shortly afterwards. Early on Friday, police in Westchester County, New York were alerted to an individual who was
Vocativ is a new media company that doesn’t consider itself part of the establishment media, but while videotaping on Martha’s Vineyard over the weekend to film “a piece about the African-American community on the island,” their film crew found themselves in a
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed Friday that over 1000 businesses across the U.S. have been targeted by a cyber attack that allows hackers to steal personal data from customers’ debit and credit cards. Some of the biggest names that
WASHINGTON, DC–Teddy Roosevelt may have given William Howard Taft the shaft after first giving him his big break. But the baseball team in the nation’s capital, more than a century after Taft’s presidential predecessor exceeded him in the November vote
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) — James Brady, the presidential spokesman turned gun-control advocate, was killed by the bullet he took for Ronald Reagan in 1981, the Washington coroner said. The medical examiner ruled Friday that Brady’s death Monday at the
On July 31, 2014, the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University put out “an urgent call” to condemn Israel, Israeli scholars, and the Israeli culture of “rape,” “misogyny,” “sexism,” “genocide,” and “ethnic cleansing.” That’s not all. The Institute
Female Secret Service agents find it “offensive” having to watch Vice President Joe Biden strip nude to go swimming, which he does habitually at the vice president’s residence and at his home in Delaware. Biden’s proclivity for skinny dipping is
A new Ronald Kessler book, “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of Presidents,” due out Aug. 5 from Crown Forum depicts a Hillary Clinton who is less than warm to her Secret Service detail, as
In the 1970s, they ran on the field naked. In 2014, they do it clothed to take a selfie. A courageous, elusive, fleet-footed, and inebriated–one hopes–man invaded the playing area at Chase Field in Phoenix on Friday. It turns out
The Obamessiah shall not be mocked. The U.S. Department of Justice sent a member of its “Community Relations Service team” to Norfolk, Nebraska, earlier this week, to look into allegations of discrimination over a controversial float in the town’s Independence Day parade. A
From the Daily Mail: ‘Sit down,’ President Barack Obama begged – not ‘get out’ – after two Hispanic hecklers interrupted his economic speech on Thursday with shouts about illegal immigration. Then, for the first time in his presidency, the Secret
One waits for an outpouring of condolences for the kidnapping-murders of the three Israeli teenagers, one of whom was also an American citizen. Especially, one waits for such statements from the most ardent supporters of a Palestinian state in the
If the recent firestorm over Hillary Clinton’s claims of poverty upon leaving the White House with huge debt was meant to send the former First lady a message, clearly she didn’t get it. Seemingly unwilling to let go of the
Spies from Russia’s intelligence apparatus reportedly fooled Edward Snowden into seeking refuge in Moscow. Not only that, Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence agency had kept tabs on Snowden six years prior to Snowden’s spilling US secrets, Former KGB Major Boris Karpichkov
From Jimmy Kimmel Live: The President was staying at a Marriott in Warsaw recently where someone secretly shot video of him working out in the hotel gym. There has been a surprising amount of criticism of this. The Secret Service
It’s been 10 years since “Rawhide” died. Ten years today, June 5, 2014. Ronald Reagan–code named “Rawhide” by his Secret Service detail–was 93 and had sunken deep into the dementia of Alzheimer’s. To honor President Reagan–and out of respect to
The week of the tenth anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s death brings me to my only Reagan story–one I’ve told so many times that my fingers are pretty much on auto pilot here, while my brain is thinking about the fried
Wednesday while in Warsaw, Poland a video secretly recorded of President Barack Obama working out in the Marriott hotel gym surfaced. While some media outlets questioned the safety of the president, a spokesman for the Secret Service Ed Donovan said
The U.S. Secret Service is seeking bids on new surveillance software that can monitor social media in real time and detect “sarcasm” by users as well as gather and track users’ past posts across multiple platforms. The new contract is
The Obamas clearly either do not understand the value of a dollar – or understand it all too well when someone else is picking up the tab. Last week, Judicial Watch released more information from the government about Air Obama.
On Friday, the government of Ukraine claimed that the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) it shot down on May 28th is a Russian-made spy drone. The Security Service of Ukraine said in a preliminary report that the UAV is a modified
