By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Four former senior government officials will head up an independent review of the beleaguered Secret Service, Washington Times reports. The review panel will include two former officials for former President George W. Bush and two who have served under President Obama. The panel is expected to submit its findings and recommendations…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Obama administration has repeatedly denied that anyone from his administration was involved with the Secret Service’s 2012 prostitution scandal in Columbia. But the Washington Post reports that new information suggests one of the presidential advance-team members was involved but never thorough investigated. In fact, the White House continued to say…
By Farah Stockman Boston Globe Here’s a quiz: Which crime is more likely to get you shot to death? A) Scaling the fence outside the White House, with a knife; B) Jaywalking in Ferguson, Mo., unarmed. The answer, of course, is B, at least if you’re a black man. And it’s not just in Ferguson….
By David Horsey The Baltimore Sun Secret Service agents should go to the movies more often. At least since the 1996 sci-fi film, “Independence Day,” in which an alien spaceship the size of Los Angeles incinerates the White House, attacks on the lovely old executive mansion have been a recurring cinematic theme. Last year, two…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I think the American public in general has been blown away by recent news of the lapses in Secret Service security involving the President. I have to think, had terrorists any clue that it was so easy to breach security and get into the White House, they would have tried something…
By Boston Globe Editorial Board For the federal agency tasked with protecting the president, it’s embarrassing enough that a man could scale the White House fence and make it well into the executive mansion before being apprehended. But the Secret Service’s defensive response to the incident, including withholding key information about the breach, is a…
By Miami Herald Editorial Board Last year, the White House was breached twice. In the movie Olympus Has Fallen, Gerard Butler faced off against Dylan McDermott and a band of Korean terrorists. In White House Down, Channing Tatum fought to save President Jamie Foxx from a band of mercenaries. In both movies, the bad guys…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Secret Service Director Julia Pierson accepted full responsibility for the recent White House intrusion and pledged to improve security at a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reports. Pierson divulged that Omar J. Gonzalez, who was armed with a knife, made it deeper into the White House on…
