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5 Sweeping Changes Recommended for Secret Service After Fence Jumper Enters WH
Source: ABC News
5 Sweeping Changes Recommended for Secret Service After Fence Jumper Enters WH
Dec 18, 2014, 5:23 PM ET
By MIKE LEVINE
A bipartisan, independent panel scrutinizing the U.S. Secret Service after a man with a small knife in his pocket jumped the perimeter fence and made it deep inside the White House is recommending sweeping changes at the agency.
The Secret Service's “paramount mission” of protecting the president and other high-ranking officials “allows no tolerance for error,” and a “single miscue, or even a split-second delay, could have disastrous consequences for the nation and the world,” warns the panel's final report, commissioned by DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson after the September breach.
After speaking with 50 officials from the Secret Service and as many as 70 others from other federal agencies, state agencies, and the White House, the panel's report makes these “important” recommendations:
1. A TALLER, “BETTER” FENCE
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Dec 18, 2014, 5:23 PM ET
By MIKE LEVINE
A bipartisan, independent panel scrutinizing the U.S. Secret Service after a man with a small knife in his pocket jumped the perimeter fence and made it deep inside the White House is recommending sweeping changes at the agency.
The Secret Service's “paramount mission” of protecting the president and other high-ranking officials “allows no tolerance for error,” and a “single miscue, or even a split-second delay, could have disastrous consequences for the nation and the world,” warns the panel's final report, commissioned by DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson after the September breach.
After speaking with 50 officials from the Secret Service and as many as 70 others from other federal agencies, state agencies, and the White House, the panel's report makes these “important” recommendations:
1. A TALLER, “BETTER” FENCE
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sweeping-recommended-secret-service-fence-jumper-enters-wh/story?id=27701359
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