By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
An Army veteran who climbed over a White House fence and made a mockery of security was twice interviewed by Secret Service agents earlier this summer in Virginia and Washington, the Associated Press reports.
Yet during those interviews, the Secret Service determined Omar J. Gonzalez was not a security threat.
The first encounter came during a traffic stop when police found a sawed off shotgun and a map of Washington with a circle around the White House, the AP wrote.
Agents contacted him again after being found near the White House with a small hatchet,
Despite those findings, the Secret Service did not find him a threat.
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