I agree.

It's the second layer of glass. The first layer is the antique glass.

various other high tech defenses.

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This is bad enough. But what makes this alarming is the fact that after these shots were fired into or at the residence of the White House, a Secret Service supervisor issued a stand down order, saying there were no shots fired.

This supervisor claimed the noises were the backfiring of a vehicle, even as agents were preparing to defend the White House. The supervisor issued a stand down order, per the Post: “No shots have been fired. Stand down.”

It took four days for the Secret Service to realize that shots had been fired at the White House. They only finally realized this because of the discoveries of a white House housekeeper (who should receive an award).

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ordered to stand down and back away just before the shots were fired.

Nothing to see here though, that's just crazy talk ya know.

wonder if that "supervisor"was ever held accountable? I would think erring on the side of caution would be their MO.

Was he just another sicko or was he inspired by Fox and Friends?

Sounds like mental illness to me.

brainwashed.

Just as being mentally ill does not mean someone is dangerous or deranged.

He seems mentally ill to me. It goes beyond the whole antichrist thing.

of the incident.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45335315/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/white-house-shooting-suspect-was-obsessed-obama-date/#.VCg91fldV8E

for a more in-depth account.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-stumbled-after-gunman-hit-white-house-residence-in-2011/2014/09/27/d176b6ac-442a-11e4-b437-1a7368204804_story.html

Then read the comments and be sickened.

I don't have to read those comments, I've read enough of those bigoted ignorant neanderthals before. But it could be they don't want to encourage this behaviour by pushing this story too much. The fact that one of them managed to actually penetrate the White House with a bullet. You can see from those comments that there are others that may only need this bit of "good news" to try it themselves.

Really excellent reporting. Terrifying...

next to the Presidents official quarters wasn't noticed and the other bullet marks.

Why is this coming out now when it's from 2011? It's shocking that this could have been kept quiet for so long.

Weren't we assured the WH was so secured that there were snipers guarding on shifts on the roof? Protection of our President is top priority. Just makes no sense.

This was big news at the time it happened.

I don't recall.

Before it was confirmed that shots had actually hit the White House, but I don't think the rest of the detail was reported.

At least it's getting attention now to go along with other incidents of screw ups by the SS (partying with prostitutes, drunkeness).

Today is the first I've seen of the details mentioned in the article.
All very strange.

I'm thinking this is part of the new DU "Secret Service is racist" meme, but I could be wrong.

"Shots fired AT the White House" would be the correct description. Small arms fire from the street isn't a threat to anyone inside the White House anyway so what else should the Secret Service do to prevent it? Eliminate the streets around the fence or restrict car and foot traffic?

by their supervisor because it was "only a car backfiring".

inexcusable!

This is madness

We have to wonder

would the Secret Service behavior have been as obviously lax?

and eventually stepped down to retire last year after a myriad of scandals. Obama's own appointee was Julia Pierson (appointed last year). This is one of the positions that doesn't require Senate confirmation as a side note.

including planes crash-landing onto the South Lawn. But the OP is about the gun shot incident. I don't doubt more will keep trying it however.

This kind of negligence doesn't have to come from the head of the Secret Service.

It could come from rank-and-file members or their immediate supervisors.

Just like individual cops or small groups in a big department can resort to the beating or shooting of black teenagers without it being condoned by the police chief.

No reason to have a person in charge if that was not the case.

However the head may not be aware of, or be able to control, rogue elements in the department.

I speak as a former newspaper reporter who spent nearly 25 years covering police beats among other assignments.

are members of militias. I have also asked about the police and military.

Please.

Strawberry ice cream.

I'm in NO way saying what you and several others are implying. I'm not into conspiracy theories.

I didn't mean to imply that you bought into the theory.

free-speech-protected hatred daily.

Or to illustrate how badly the Secret Service is doing protecting the president's home? Coming on the heels of the guy who jumped the fence, this news must be making for long faces at SS headquarters. It certainly reinforces the argument that the perimeter ought to be widened and strengthened.

There were no cock ups by the Secret Service? The Bushes, the Clintons, the Reagans, the can't remember all US Presidents names (I make no apology) were always secure? Only during Obama's time did the SS cock up?

So, I don't know how any of the DU members in this thread didn't know about it until today.