Secret Service stumbled after 2011 White House shooting

This item was just reported out on MSNBC.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/09/27/white-house-shooting-web-only.html

Secret Service stumbled after 2011 White House shooting

By Carol D. Leonnig
The Washington Post • Sunday September 28, 2014 5:49 AM

This is the view of the White House similar to what the gunman had that night in 2011.

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WASHINGTON — The gunman parked his black Honda directly south of the White House, in the dark of a November night, in a closed lane of Constitution Avenue. He pointed his long, semiautomatic rifle out of the passenger window, aimed directly at the home of the president of the United States, and pulled the trigger.

A bullet smashed a window on the second floor, just steps from the first family’s formal living room. Another lodged in a window frame, and more pinged off the roof, sending bits of wood and concrete to the ground. At least seven bullets struck the upstairs residence of the White House, flying some 700 yards across the South Lawn.

President Barack Obama and his wife were out of town on that evening of Nov. 11, 2011, but their younger daughter, Sasha, and Michelle Obama’s mother, Marian Robinson, were inside, while older daughter Malia was expected back any moment from an outing with friends.

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