We can’t even keep people from fence jumping on to the White House lawn but that’ll stop come 2018- PB/TK
Fix that White House fence: Our view –
One month ago, a man carrying two cans of Mace scaled the White House fence and roamed the grounds for almost 17 minutes — an eternity when it comes to the president’s home — before being taken into custody by the Secret Service.
The intruder hid behind a pillar at one point and peered inside windows — all while President Trump was in the executive mansion, according to Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who chairs the House government oversight committee. The full extent of the security breach didn’t become known until Chaffetz called for a briefing and surveillance videos.
About the only good news is that this time, the intruder didn’t get inside the White House, as happened in September 2014 when a knife-carrying man scaled the fence, came through the mansion’s unlocked front door, and ran deep inside before being subdued.
That 2014 incident — on top of numerous embarrassing lapses by agents in the field — toppled the Secret Service director and spurred what was supposed to be a monumental overhaul. But on March 10, the Secret Service Uniformed Division, which protects the nation’s most important home, again looked like a TV parody of inept cops. The public still hasn’t been told what went wrong. The Secret Service says the investigation is continuing.
Continue to usatoday.com article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/04/10/secret-service-white-house-breach-intruder-editorials-debates/100017392/
