Julia Pierson, (former) Director of the Secret Service.
Nice "do", lady. More like a don't.
On September 19, 2014, a 42-year old man broke into the White House.
Omar Gonzalez, an army veteran from the Iraq war, eluded various layers of security and was able to enter deep into the White house just minutes after the president and his family had taken off in a helicopter for a weekend getaway at Camp David. Gonzalez was carrying a two and a half inch knife.
that Barack Hussein is the same as Saddam Hussein.
The intruder was able to run unobstructed across the entire White House lawn (70 yards), sprint up to the front door past a guard, then enter the building and run up two halls before being stopped just outside the “Green Room”, which is located right next to the oval office.
This is the furthest anyone has gotten inside the executive mansion (most jumpers are usually tackled by secret service men near the fence)
This debacle caused the FEMALE director of the Secret Service, Julia Pierson, to resign (she has been the only female director to date). They had to bring in a retired MALE agent to temporarily replace her.
Aww, Pooh!
Pierson had been named the director of the U.S. Secret Service in March 2013 by President Obama (in order to be politically correct). The Secret Service Agency had been marred by scandal a year before, where men in the secret service slept with prostitutes while on a summit meeting in Colombia.
(But honestly, who cares? As long as it’s on their own time and they didn’t reveal any state secrets or endanger anyone, it’s nobody’s business).
This should be a hit with my female constituents . . .
Hiring a woman was suppose to “change the culture of the agency from a ‘boy’s club’ or‘frat house’ culture”. People were hoping she would “change the male dominated service”.
(now, if someone had said we need more male schoolteachers to change the “female-dominated school system”, that would have been seen as sexist. But for some reason, feminists and the politically-correct crowd see no problem with such statements if they are directed against men. Bunch of hypocrites . . .)
While I do agree that those protecting the president should be of better character, the most important thing is being competent at your job. If the president or a member of his family dies on your watch, nobody is going to care what swell upstanding people your agents are. They aren’t going to care that your agents are feminists or that those agents care about ‘feelings’. The people want to be assured that those protecting the president can kick some butt if the situation calls for it. In the end, Julia Pierson lost the respect of those working under her, as well as the members of congress.
It also didn’t help that Pierson initially lied to the press and the president about the details of the incident.
During the congressional hearings, she oftentimes refused to answer questions directly. It was also discovered during the hearings that under her tenure, an armed security contractor (who had a criminal past) had not been screened and was allowed to get on an elevator with the president during a trip in Atlanta. In addition, during a different presidential trip in March, one secret service agent was found passed out drunk in front of the president’s room.
This isn’t quite the way to “clean house”.
The sad thing is, she looked good on paper. She has many years of experience (having joined the secret service in 1983, and having served as the Secret Service’s chief of staff in 2008). She also served on the protective details of the three previous presidents (Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr.). It’s unfortunate.
Tokenism never works, at least not for long.
However, to be fair, everyone in the president’s security detail failed miserably that day. Here’s the breakdown:
1.
The surveillance team outside the fence (who are suppose to warn agents inside the grounds about a break in, in order to give those agents a head start over the intruder), failed to notice Gonzalez.
2.
The alarm box at the front entrance had been turned off because the White House ushers were complaining that it was “too loud”.
(Well no shit, stupid – it’s suppose to be loud. It’s an alarm. I’m going to take a wild guess and say these ushers were female.)
White House officials claimed the alarms boxes were malfunctioning and unnecessarily sounding off (but again, it’s the secret service’s job to get that fixed). That’s a very poor excuse.
3.
The front door was left unlocked (because there was no alarm, the inside guard failed to close and lock the door in time). There was also no guard outside the door (like there should have been)
4.
The ‘hounds’ were not released.
White House officials claim the guard dogs were not sent out because there were other people out (whom they didn’t want to get hurt).
(I have to ask: What is the point of having attack dogs if you don’t use them? The White House always has security people (“Friendlies”) around the premises. Are they all suppose to rush inside before the dogs can be released? What if the intruder rushes in with them? So dumb)
However, it was later revealed that the officer in charge of the guard dogs: 1) was on his personal cell phone, 2) did not have his earpiece in, and 3) also did not have his back-up radio on him (he had left it in his locker), so he was not aware of the breach and did not send out the attack dog.
5.
Agents, though armed, failed to shoot the suspect. Gonzales brushed past an agent with a drawn gun near the entrance.
The intruder also managed to overpower and push his way past a FEMALE secret service agent inside the white house. Authorities claim that “gender was not a factor”.
(I disagree. It would have been less likely for a man to be pushed over, due to men’s generally larger frames and muscle mass).
It took an off-duty secret service agent (he was leaving for the night) to notice Gonzalez and tackle him to the ground. Thank goodness at least one guy (who wasn’t even suppose to be working since his shift was over) did HIS job properly.
Utter incompetence on the part of everyone else.
Political correctness in general, and feminism in particular, endangers lives. Therefore, it has no place in critical jobs such as these (or any job for that matter).
If you can’t meet the requirements of the job, then you should find another job. If that female guard who was shoved aside does not pass the physical qualifications that men have to pass, she should be fired. I also think the White House ushers and the guard in charge of the dogs should be fired.
Sources:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-fence-jumper-inquiry-reveals-multiple-secret/story?id=26899949
