According to the New York Times, the Secret Service Director has resigned because
1. On Sept. 19, an intruder jumped over the fence around the White House and made it deep into the mansion before being apprehended, and days before that
2. An armed man was allowed to ride in an elevator with the president during an event at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
So is it any wonder that Andy Borowitz writes,
Iraq’s new Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, has cancelled a scheduled visit to the White House, citing “concerns about the security situation there.”
“They really need to get on top of things there,” he said. “Until they do, I’m better off staying in Iraq.”
The Secret Service, of course, is in the Department of Homeland Security. Isn’t it reassuring that Americans are so much safer now than before 9/11?
October 2, 2014
Yes, very. I too would like to stay put in Pune.
Pune sounds like a safe place, thank goodness.
Sounds like your personal safety would be better protected at the local greengrocer. I imagine Obama was spitting with rage at those responsible. Except that he always seems too calm to get in a spitting rage about anything.
I imagine he was annoyed when he learned he had been on an elevator with an armed man.
LOLOL.
nick.
you just crack me up. LOLOL.
security is such a moot point anywhere anymore.
whether the whitehouse or our own area.
our state managed to make the news with it 20 miles down the highway from me.
the poor woman who was beheaded by that man last week had only just lost her home and everything in it last year in the devastating ‘moore tornado.’
now her family has lost her too . . . and in such a horrific manner.
she was simply the first one he got to with his huge knife.
they’re debating furiously now on all the networks whether to call it a real terrorist act or just workplace violence since he’d been fired recently.
but his website was full of threats and militant islamic statements. so who knows?
now he says he wants a muslim lawyer and is showing arrogance rather than remorse.
the FBI thinks he acted alone with no network of others.
but it gives one chills just the same. it always seems remote til its in your own backyard.
this world.
Wow, that was too close to you! Stay safe.
Living in the DC Metro area, this is of course all over the local news. I agree with you and have to wonder if those working in the White House have just become too complacent in their jobs and just being in the white house. They said on the news here that the alarms were silenced/turned off inside because white-house staffers asked they be that way — How ridiculous, and how lucky that it was ‘just’ one man and not more.
Unfortunately it’s easy to get too complacent. It happens all the time until something happens to shake things up.
I can well imagine your news media has good coverage of the problem!