Did The Secret Service Lie To The White House About Intruder?

Posted by | September 30, 2014 17:20 | Filed under: Contributors Opinion Politics Tommy Christopher Top Stories

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The breach of the White House by Omar Gonzalez was big news today, as agency Director Julia Pierson took a grilling on the Hill, and back at the White House, Press Secretary Josh Éarnest was asked, several times, when was President Obama informed of how far the fence-jumper got. With the lines I’ve been given to read between, there’s a strong possibility that the Secret Service tried to sell their immediate apprehension story to the White House, as well as the public.

Earnest was asked several times when President Obama was informed that the intruder, who was carrying a pocketknife, made it all the way to the Green Room, and Earnest refused to say, replying only that the president was “updated” several times over the past week-ans-a-half, including an in-person briefing by Director Pierson on Thursday, and repeated;y citing the ongoing review. He also talked about the “chaos” surrounding the incident, but this particular piece of information isn’t susceptible to some kind of Rashomon effect, this is something that was knowable almost immediately.

Toward the end of the briefing, I asked Earnest when he, personally, learned just how deeply Gonzalez had penetrated the White House. What I got was the answer to some question being asked by Tommy Christopher with a beard in some alternate universe…READ MORE 

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

8 responses to Did The Secret Service Lie To The White House About Intruder?

  1. Red Eye Robot September 30th, 2014 at 17:37

    Yo can bet if this was during the government shut down and Omar Gonzales had tried to get in to see the Lincoln Memorial he would have been stopped

  2. Red Eye Robot September 30th, 2014 at 17:37

    Yo can bet if this was during the government shut down and Omar Gonzales had tried to get in to see the Lincoln Memorial he would have been stopped

  3. ShepardRahl September 30th, 2014 at 18:02

    I have no doubt that there are more than a few on the secret service that would like to see President Obama dead. This whole thing reeks of collusion. I’m not saying it was some big plan worked out between the secret service and Gonzalez, but the incompetence of the secret service is a bit too sudden and convenient.

    • Roctuna September 30th, 2014 at 19:03

      Sudden? They’ve had several episodes of unprofessionalism.

      • ShepardRahl September 30th, 2014 at 19:08

        I meant of this magnitude. That I am aware of anyway.

  4. ShepardRahl September 30th, 2014 at 18:02

    I have no doubt that there are more than a few on the secret service that would like to see President Obama dead. This whole thing reeks of collusion. I’m not saying it was some big plan worked out between the secret service and Gonzalez, but the incompetence of the secret service is a bit too sudden and convenient.

    • Roctuna September 30th, 2014 at 19:03

      Sudden? They’ve had several episodes of unprofessionalism.

      • ShepardRahl September 30th, 2014 at 19:08

        I meant of this magnitude. That I am aware of anyway.

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