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

[Locutus]

oh geez, I hope so.

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.



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

 

[darkbeaver]

Ask JFK.

 

[BaalsTears]

The White House is not safe. An intruder penetrated White House security in 2009 and took up residence. He has been there ever since. Getting rid of the intruder isn't a job for the secret service. It's a job for a fumigator.

 

[Blackleaf]

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

Does it matter? If Obama got shot it wouldn't affect my life.

 

[Kreskin]

That was just Obama heading home after the illuminati meeting.

 

[Blackleaf]

The White House is not safe. An intruder penetrated White House security in 2009 and took up residence. He has been there ever since. Getting rid of the intruder isn't a job for the secret service. It's a job for a fumigator.

He's hardly the first black guy to have broken into a white house.

 

[gopher]

Pierson got hammered by Congress today - members of both parties really gave her a whupping. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of reform for the Secret Service.

 

[damngrumpy]

No president is ever really safe no matter how good or bad the security is.
An intruder did not take over the White House a duly elected President did.
A man who by and large has done a pretty good job save a couple of things
that didn't go too well. Every President in history has had their problems.
Besides the mess he was handled its little wonder he did as well as he did.
I much prefer Obama than the rabble the hijacked right was putting forward.
Fiscal Conservatives have their place social conservatives no. As for his
safety no secret service folks want to be on the detail that botched the
security of the President