Joe Biden's security breached while boarding campaign plane

[brooklynite]

Source: CBS News

Johnstown, Pa. — An unidentified photographer breached Joe Biden's Secret Service perimeter this afternoon as the candidate boarded his charter plane in Pennsylvania.

The Democratic presidential nominee and his wife, Jill, were walking up the plane staircase from their motorcade at the Johnstown-Cambria County Airport when a man with a camera made his way onto the small airport tarmac, around the plane's rear and under its left wing to join the group of credentialed press corps traveling with Biden who were watching the couple board.

Soon after reaching the area under the plane wing, the man was intercepted by a Secret Service agent and physically removed. The man flashed an orange pass around his neck, declared himself a photographer, and initially resisted the agent trying to pull him away.

...snip...

The man apparently either jumped a green, six-foot fence near the small terminal where a few dozen people gathered or entered the tarmac through an unauthorized pedestrian gate, the airport's general manager Chad Gontkovic told CBS News. The unidentified man proceeded approximately 75 yards to Biden's plane, which was surrounded on all sides by Secret Service agents, a more than eight-car motorcade and other local law enforcement.


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[Illumination]

1. Surprised he wasn't arrested for trespassing...

[SheltieLover]

2. Should have been!

[sakabatou]

4. Agreed

[tosh]

17. Yup!

I want to know who he is, who pays him.

[SheltieLover]

31. Scary!

Why was he not intercepted sooner?

[marble falls]

9. Did he also pick his toes in Poughkeepsie ...

[Lord Ludd]

62. The car vs elevated train chase sequence in French Connection

left me gobsmacked in 1970. It was a milestone then & still holds up.

[bermudat]

57. Must have been white

[Dream Girl]

3. WTF? Wat was he going to do? Why was he there?

[brooklynite]

5. To get pictures?

Guessing he was a freelancer.

[ewagner]

53. He was there to get shots of Biden

...that could be photoshopped and sold to RW media or other RW social media sites.

I have not proof...just suspicions..

Just my humble opinion

[brooklynite]

56. Or the evil conspirators could just have taken the digital image from a reliable photographer...

...from any internet news site and photoshopped that.

[NBachers]

6. We don't need another Ambassador Hotel; or another "Bay of Pigs thing."

[Hekate]

60. Damn right. I'm glad he was intercepted and physically removed.

[AKing]

7. Make sure he wasn't working for Putin.

[onetexan]

30. This did cross my mind. Was wondering if it was a similar Alexei Navalny-style attempt

The SS needs to do a better job protecting President Biden & FLOTUS Jill.

[SheltieLover]

32. And Kamala!

[niyad]

8. Thank Goddess he was apparently only after pics. But, Secret Service, how in the f'n HELL was he

able to cross all that distance undetected.??????? It looks like you all need to take your assignments much more seriously. That insane, traitorous, murdering orange monster has unleashed crazies. .with weapons, and hatred. PAY ATTENTION!!!!!!!

[former9thward]

19. He was detected.

That is why he was removed from the reporter pool. But of course anonymous internet posters are experts in executive security now....

[niyad]

21. Exactly what part of "jumped a six ft fence and traversed SEVENTY FIVE YARDS and came around the

back of the plane" did you miss?

[former9thward]

23. Nothing.

Do you think he should have been shot one yard into his trip?

[niyad]

25. Don't try to put words in my mouth, my dear. But, nice try.

[former9thward]

26. What is your answer?

When should he have been intercepted and by what means?

[zaj]

44. By whatever means he was intercepted and between 0 and 75 yards earlier?

This isn't rocket science. Secret service should have locked down the entire perimeter around the airplane.

[Yeehah]

52. Maybe someone should have been watching the fence?

What good is a fence if people can just jump over it?

There you have your answer!

[JHB]

47. I know it's a mistake to enter this conversation, but...

...if you're going to berate someone over "what part did you miss," you probably shouldn't base it on a very specific part of a quote when the another part of the quote is something like "or entered the tarmac through an unauthorized pedestrian gate."

I mean, it's not good that it happened, but I'll point to it as part of the steady degradation of the Secret Service that has occurred since the "Patriot" Act took it out of Treasury and shoved it into DHS, plus Trump-driven effects.

[SheltieLover]

33. This!👆

[DURHAM D]

10. Given that Nancy Pelosi is only two steps from the Presidency

I believe it was a security breach when she was filmed inside that salon. I never saw any press mention of the breach.

[former9thward]

24. She was not filmed by the media illegally intruding.

She was filmed a person at the salon. If you don't want to be filmed then don't go into a hair salon. It is not the job of the SS to stop embarrassing videos. That is not a security breach.

[niyad]

27. Is there some particular reason you are so intent on defending the SS, and trashing others,

including Speaker Pelosi?

[RhodeIslandOne]

48. I could say something right now....

....but I better hold my text.

[DURHAM D]

29. Wrong.

Her security detail is supposed to check for/be aware of any security breach such as filming or recording her private activities.

[former9thward]

54. Going into a public business is not a "private activity".

The hair dresser did not come to her house.

[DURHAM D]

55. swing and a miss

[soothsayer]

11. Scary. But if it ends up being "you got mad that we expelled a reporter taking pics...

...now you did the same thing,” we’ll know Drumpf’s behind it.

[SheltieLover]

34. This!👆

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Some one will not be Chief of

Security by tomorrow morning.

[steve2470]

14. a head or heads will roll or should, yes nt

[Wellstone ruled]

16. You just know there will be

someone or someones that will be on desk Duty until hell freezes over.

[SheltieLover]

35. And well should be!

[Wellstone ruled]

38. You damn better believe it.

People with motives watch for these type of incidents . Talk about a Breach.

[SheltieLover]

39. Absolutely, Wellstone!

Could a person get that close to any president? Guessing not.

[Wellstone ruled]

41. Notice how Trump's

Team has increased in numbers. We know Trump is a Weeny from way back,and I am sure the threats are to numerous to count at this point.

Hope they pull this imposter apart. Fake Badges under any circumstances cause all kinds of issues.

[SheltieLover]

42. I don't know much about SS

Sorry, haven't had time to read up.

And I have not watched or listened to chumputin since he stalked Hillary around debate stage.

[steve2470]

13. Glad this was harmless, but WTF Secret Service, this was gross incompetence

What if the guy had a pistol hidden on him ?

[SheltieLover]

36. No kidding!

[BamaRefugee]

15. Just a test run to make sure the Secret Service acts EXACTLY the way Barr instructed them.

And NO, this is NOT

[former9thward]

18. Barr has nothing to do with the Secret Service.

They are in a different agency.

[BamaRefugee]

46. None of the divisions of power mean ANYTHING anymore.

Barr is trump’s bag man now. The Consigliere.
Nothing and no one is gonna stop him.

[radius777]

49. The SS are mostly RW white men

who likely are mostly voting for Trump, and imo cannot be trusted to protect Dems.

They likely have the same mindset that most law enforcement people have, which is anti-Dem/anti-liberal.

If I were Dems I would hire my own firm as double security to make sure SS is not compromised.

[BamaRefugee]

63. Biden should request extra layer of security from one of our Allies, I'm sure Britain, France,

Germany, Canada or someone would be happy to assist for a few months.
I doubt the law is that a candidate can ONLY have SS protection, but who knows?

[SheltieLover]

37. Likely so!

[Snoopy 7]

50. Let's remember

Don't forget, or in case you didn't know, there were a couple of times while B. Obama was campaigning that he looked around and the security force was no where to be seen. Of course he told reporters and it was written about but nothing was done about the problem. I have always believed it's just the message that is quite simple, we can turn our backs any time we want and your gone. Until recently, Obama Administration, this NEVER happened, it's not laxity it's just planned to send a message, nothing more.

[Baked Potato]

20. Not good.

[ancianita]

22. That does NOT reflect well on the Secret Service.

[0rganism]

28. very dangerous situation - warning shots have been fired

those pix of Rep. Pelosi's haircut sent the same message
niether underestimate nor forget what desperate men will do when their crises arrive.

[greenjar_01]

40. Amazing that a communication professional wrote that headline

Oooof.

[JoeOtterbein]

43. Your post was the first to be repeated, of two double LBN posts still up at this time tonight?

What gives?

[winstars]

45. "physically removed"... obviously a white man, a person of color...shot 17 times!!! IMHO

[JI7]

51. The Secret SErvice needs to go back under the other Department they were before 9/11

[llashram]

58. everyone is so surprised

that the RW would go so far as to see how close one of their Q people could get to Joe and Jill Biden and I damn sure worry about the potential VP, Kamala Harris. Why am I not surprised? During President Obama's administration, the supposed secret vacations of the Obama children were leaked online and some jerk made it all the way into the foyer of the White House while some of the family was still there.

The RW is dirty, dangerously evil and extremely racist and will stop at nothing to win. In these cases, someone really dropped the ball. I'm sure they plugged this danger yet do they think that there are, not people out there, hateful and murderous trying, like Rottonhose, to gain some kind of social media status in the RW crazy rooms. I'm sure of one thing, they are there with their guns and their plans.

The guy in the foyer could have been a suicide bomber, this fake photog same thing or worse. WTF is going on with the SS protection?

[Totally Tunsie]

59. What concerns me is that the SS now becomes one more agency

in which we once had some confidence, that now comes under suspicion and mistrust.

Under Chump's regime, we can no longer have faith in the FBI, DOJ, Supreme Court, CDC, WHO, NIH, UN, USPS, SS, PD, and probably a few others not coming to mind at the moment. He has destroyed the structure under which we've operated for decades. There is no trust anymore...just doubt.

One man/3.5 years - That's all it took to change life as we knew it.

[Cha]

61. Maybe this guy was there only to take pics but

the point is the Security Breech.

I'm hoping the SS will learn mightily from this.