Rachel opening with secret security failures on msnbc 9 est

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30. Found this, calimary..

Secret Service Director Julia Pierson Is in the Hot Seat

"When President Obama appointed her the new director of the Secret Service a year and a half ago, hopes were high that Julia Pierson could redeem the agency's tarnished reputation.

“Julia is eminently qualified to lead the agency that not only safeguards Americans at major events and secures our financial system, but also protects our leaders and our first families, including my own,” Obama said in a statement in March 2013, when Pierson was sworn in as the first female director of the Secret Service in its nearly 150-year history."

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Now Pierson, 55, is coming under fire for botching the assignment Obama had called out: protecting the first family. The law enforcement veteran with more than 30 years of experience with the Secret Service is being grilled Tuesday by Congress after a series of major mistakes by her agents, including a White House break-in on Sept. 19 by an Iraq war vet who hopped the fence and made it into the East Room with a knife before he was tackled and disarmed.

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While the White House released a statement after the breach assuring the public that "the President has full confidence in the Secret Service," Pierson will face tough questions about how the incident happened — especially in light of other recent safety revelations, including a bullet that struck the White House residence in 2011 and an imbroglio involving prostitutes and a Secret Service detail in Colombia in 2012.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/secret-service-director-julia-pierson-hot-seat-n214726

And, we have the "Elevator Incident"..

geek http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025604122

Darn!