A pair of Secret Service agents, one a member of the president’s protective detail, are being investigated for crashing a car into a barricade outside the White House last week, the agency reports.
Hillary Clinton’s statement on her use of private email at the State Department wasn’t terribly convincing, but there is no doubt it was carefully crafted. At one point, she even dragged the Secret Service into a defense of her private email server.
CNN reports that the Secret Service intercepted a flying drone on the White House grounds early on Monday morning, as the remote-controlled aircraft crashed onto the grounds.
The Secret Service is investigating a drone that crashed at the White House on Monday. According to the Secret Service, the drone involved was a commercially available “quad-copter” drone that crashed into the South East side of the White House.
CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta reported that “Secret Service officials said they had agents on the ground in Paris just in case” on Monday’s “Situation Room” on CNN. Acosta reported that “the White House suggested the security needs
The Department of Homeland Security released an executive summary of its report on the Secret Service moments ago. The report recommends that the U.S. government replace the entire fence surrounding the perimeter of the White House. The report was drafted
Columnist Charles Krauthammer said that new anti-profiling policies issued by the Department of Justice were “self-contradictory” on Monday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. “The policy [is] entirely self-contradictory. Holder issued a statement saying that it [profiling] is not
As Republicans explore a short term continuing resolution for the Department of Homeland Security, Secretary Jeh Johnson asserted that it would be bad for the agency. “I know that there are some contemplating some form of short term CR for
A Gallup survey finds 72% of Americans give the US Post Office “good” or “excellent” marks for its service. By a wide margin, the Post Office is viewed more favorably than any other federal agency surveyed by Gallup. The poll
Congressman Louie Gohmert said that if a fence is not good enough for the U.S.-Mexico border, it “should not be good enough for the White House” during a judiciary hearing on Wednesday. Gohmert questioned the acting Secret Service Director about what
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) said that the “comedy of errors” by the Secret Service had him “very, very concerned” for the president’s safety in an interview on Friday’s “Real Story” on the Fox News Channel. Goodlatte reported
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service response to an armed intruder who jumped the fence and raced into the White House was complicated by muted alarms and radios, thick bushes on the lawn, unlocked doors and an officer inside who
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” mocked President Barack Obama for his handling of Ebola and other problems in his administration’s second term. In the sketch, Obama says “some people want to criticize the way our administration has handled this crisis, and
Among the numerous exhibits at the FDR Library is one that shows First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt knew the benefits of female gun ownership. Her permit to carry a pistol, issued August 5, 1957, is on display. A tweet sent by
Police and security services are said to have upped security for tomorrow’s visit of President Tan of Singapore amidst concerns ISIS may use the visit to launch an attack. The State Visit is the first major event in London since
On Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on NBC, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) argued that while it isn’t entirely appropriate to overplay the Ebola outbreak for political purposes, the outbreak does feed the narrative that the federal government is inept in numerous
Every scandal in the Obama administration has a face. Who is in charge, then, of the response to the Ebola virus? For the Obamacare website debacle, Americans pointed to former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Department of Veterans
For the last three months, hackers had access to customer credit and debit card names, numbers and expiration dates at 395 Dairy Queen stores in the U.S. stores, according to news reports. The hackers installed the same “Backoff” malware on
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page said the American people have begun to question the competence of President Barack Obama. Page said, “I think both of these stories, the Ebola virus and ISIS
The White House had information two years ago indicating that one of their advance travel volunteers, the son of a major Democratic donor with ties to the White House, was involved in the Secret Service prostitution scandal. That former aide
Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent who served during the Obama administration, and a Republican candidate for Congress in Maryland, blasted the Obama administration for their “protect the crown approach” on Thursday’s broadcast of “The Real Story” on the
(AFP) China is waging an aggressive cyber-war against the United States that costs American business billions of dollars every year, Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey said Sunday. The FBI chief told CBS television’s “60 Minutes” program China topped
North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis will oppose any nominee to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder who doesn’t explicitly reject President Obama’s planned executive amnesty, his spokesman told Breitbart News. Tillis spokesman Daniel Keylin said in an email: President Obama
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said “85 percent” of the African-Americans he has discussed the recent lapses in protection by the Secret Service with think the failure to protect President Barack Obama is because of
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” mocked President Obama’s response to ISIS and the scandals in the Secret Service in a sketch satirizing the president’s interview with “60 Minutes.” After President Obama is asked whether the ISIS threat was underestimated, he responds,
