Issues Under Fire: What If Oliver Stone Questioned Secret Service Performance
Since the Secret Service internal investigation will undoubtedly and understandably be held behind closed doors, we thought we'd conduct our own investigation into what went wrong on the day an intruder breached White House security. Oddly enough, it was easy to see from the very beginning, everything went wrong and everything went wrong at the same time.
Setting aside our penchant for wild speculation and a runaway imagination, we thought we'd focus our questions on the obvious. Jumping a fence is no real problem, but how an intruder could cross the White House's expansive lawn without being confronted by guards, guard dogs, or snipers is a mystery. We hate mysteries!
Why wasn't the intruder's actions picked up on monitors, detected by ground sensors and motion detectors to alert building security somebody was about to bust into the most secure building in the world is a mystery too. Why would there be only one female guard on duty at the unlocked front-door of the White House with the alarm turned off?
With facial recognition technology available, the intruder should have been identified and engaged before he jumped the fence. This person (Omar Jose Gonzalez) had been previously stopped by Secret Service personnel for caring a hatchet in front of the White House. This person had been arrested this summer in Virginia with a sizable arsenal of semiautomatic weapons, a sniper rifle along with a map marking the White House's location. This person was a known threat.
Bottom line: In order for Mr Gonzalez to have been successful in his efforts, a lot of people had to be doing all the wrong things at the same time. Who were the dog handlers and what were they really doing? Who were the snipers and what were they really doing? Who were the camera monitors and what were they really doing? What was the real reason the door was left unlocked? What was the real reason the alarm was turned off? Why was an off duty agent the last line of defense? What is the probability of all these security failures happening at the same time? What would Oliver Stone say about what happened on that almost fateful day? Podcast Below!
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