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Posted: 10/1/2014 3:22:44 PM EDT
Julia Pierson, the director of the Secret Service, is resigning in the wake of several security breaches, according to administration officials.

The resignation came less than a day after lawmakers from both parties assailed Ms. Pierson’s leadership and said they feared for the lives of the president and others in the protection of the agency.

A 30-year veteran of the Secret Service, Ms. Pierson was supposed to have been the one to repair the agency’s reputation after scandals that raised questions about a culture that gave rise to incidents involving drinking and prostitution during overseas trips.

But her tenure has been rocked by more serious allegations that her agents and officers have not been performing their primary job competently. Under intense questioning on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Ms. Pierson admitted that those charged with securing the White House failed to follow numerous security protocols, allowing a man armedwith a knife to penetrate deep inside the mansion.

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The war on women continues...
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Not sure if this is good or bad based on the current WH inhabitants...
Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:25:35 PM EDT
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FPNI (again).
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The Critical Theory Alliance is fracturing? OMG!!!! Waiting for more team players to be thrown under the bus...
Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:25:56 PM EDT
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the NYTIMES has an update from 7 minutes ago that says otherwise.
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FPNI (again).
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Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:27:08 PM EDT
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Won't be missed
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Excellent.



I giggled and snorted.
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"As an interim Acting Director of the Secret Service, I am appointing Joseph Clancy, formerly Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Division of the Secret Service," Johnson said.

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Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:30:23 PM EDT
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In her defense, she does kinda look like a dude.
Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:30:45 PM EDT
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GD beats twitter yet again.
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Good. But at the same time, do we really need to advertise it to the whole fucking world that you can jump the fence and get inside the Whitehouse easier than getting a door-buster TV on Black Friday at Wal-Mart? Fucking hell....
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Hell..  I was hoping she'd be promoted.





Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:32:37 PM EDT
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Armed with a knife?

So now a pocket knife in your pocket is "armed"?
Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:33:23 PM EDT
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Protecting the country and protecting the president has never been so conflicted.

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Nancy Pelosi was the first dem to call for her resignation...once it looked like the GOP cared more for the President's safety than the Dems....the media will gladly spin this to the dem's favor.
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I don't see how you can politicize this.
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Just think.  The chef that prepped my meal last night at the steakhouse.....was armed with a knife too!   *shudder*



 
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Setting the stage as Hitlery's VP?
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It is in DC (and other commie states).
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Hell..  I was hoping she'd be promoted.





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Watching the news during lunch at work, before the revealing announcement which came after, I said the only logical step is for her to step down or resign.
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Did the previous most recent Bush have this many resignations of folks under his tenure?

 
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I don't see how you can politicize this.
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I don't see how you can politicize this.


Yeah... I'm kind of having a hard time imagining that as well.
Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:38:37 PM EDT
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In her defense, she does kinda look like a dude.
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In her defense, she does kinda look like a dude.


Seriously, what is it with this administration and appointing some seriously FUGGLY women...I mean Kagan, Sotomayor, Big Sis, that goony googoo lookin' bitch from health and human services that had to resign, and this broad...every one hit, run over, and caught up in the axles of the ugly bus....
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I don't see how you can politicize this.
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I don't see how you can politicize this.


You can politicize anything in DC.
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Can another body fit under obamas bus?
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EEOC "hiring" strikes again?

 
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I think Lois Lerner is looking for work.
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Always more room:

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Yeah, at least she'll give folks extra scrutiny.



 
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sounds hot.
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It is in DC (and other commie states).
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It is in DC (and other commie states).


We've actually got a < 3" rule here on knives. I carry a 2 5/8" Benchmade fixed blade on a belt sheath- completely legal (unless I decide to break into the whitehouse, then my little knife is the last thing I need to worry about...)
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I know for a fact that SS members dont allow themselves to be political or idealistic or anything like that, they are above it, more professional... but theyre also human
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You can politicize anything in DC.
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I don't see how you can politicize this.


You can politicize anything in DC.


Yes. They could literally make a heated political argument out of your lunch.
Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:47:36 PM EDT
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"As an interim Acting Director of the Secret Service, I am appointing Joseph Clancy, formerly Special Agent in Charge of the Presidential Protective Division of the Secret Service," Johnson said.
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So the guy in charge of the agents at the WH when the jumper got in, is now promoted?
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SES right? She'll get a job of equal stature and pay somewhere in the system. Because that's how they roll...
Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:48:15 PM EDT
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FPNI

I'll add:  More time for her cats.
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I would think that our first affirmative action 'President' would have more sympathy for another affirmative action hire.  Guess not.
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That's just clever politics.
Suppresses the angry lesbian vote come November.
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Seriously, what is it with this administration and appointing some seriously FUGGLY women...I mean Kagan, Sotomayor, Big Sis, that goony googoo lookin' bitch from health and human services that had to resign, and this broad...every one hit, run over, and caught up in the axles of the ugly bus....
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In her defense, she does kinda look like a dude.


Seriously, what is it with this administration and appointing some seriously FUGGLY women...I mean Kagan, Sotomayor, Big Sis, that goony googoo lookin' bitch from health and human services that had to resign, and this broad...every one hit, run over, and caught up in the axles of the ugly bus....

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Yes. They could literally make a heated political argument out of your lunch.
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Nancy Pelosi was the first dem to call for her resignation...once it looked like the GOP cared more for the President's safety than the Dems....the media will gladly spin this to the dem's favor.

I don't see how you can politicize this.


You can politicize anything in DC.


Yes. They could literally make a heated political argument out of your lunch.


I think Michelle Obama is trying to do that exact thing.
Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:55:08 PM EDT
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Yes.  Scream it from the highest mountain.

Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:55:30 PM EDT
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Damn.

I thought she was doing a great job fir our country.

She will be missed.
Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:55:38 PM EDT
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They need to upgrade the selection process.
The first SS at the door was a petite woman who was promptly pushed over.
Minimum fitness standards, such as 6' tall, 190 pounds.
Like the women in combat threads and their much easier standards.
ETA, let the war on women continue.
Link Posted: 10/1/2014 3:57:17 PM EDT
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The detail is only as effective as the administration allows them to be. If the powers-that-be want unobtrusive and friendly then they have to expect some party crashers.
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