Tag: Secret Service

National Security

Secret Service director: ‘It will never happen again’

Susan Crabtree · September 30, 2014 2:18 pm

An extra barricade has been set up outside the White House since the incident on Friday. (Getty images/Alex Wong)

Congress demands answers on security

Susan Crabtree · September 30, 2014 9:00 am

People line the iron perimeter fence that lines the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Intruder made it deep into White House

Kelly Cohen · September 29, 2014 9:03 pm

Law enforcement officers photograph a window at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, as seen from the South Lawn. A bullet hit an exterior window of the White House and was stopped by ballistic glass, the Secret Service said. An additional round of ammunition was found on the White House exterior. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Secret Service erred in 2011 shooting at White House

Jennifer Peebles · September 28, 2014 4:46 pm

Obama has ‘full confidence’ in Secret Service

Susan Crabtree · September 26, 2014 6:32 pm

A member of security with a weapon walks along the interior of the perimeter fence on White House North Lawn along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. The Secret Service tightened their guard outside the White House after Friday's embarrassing breach in the security of one of the most closely protected buildings in the world. A man is accused of scaling the White House perimeter fence, running across the lawn and entering the presidential mansion before agents stopped him. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Secret Service interviewed accused intruder twice

Alicia Caldwell · September 23, 2014 9:25 pm

Something is terribly wrong with the Secret Service

Byron York · September 22, 2014 10:05 pm

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has summoned Secret Service Director Julia Pierson to a Sept. 30 hearing on White House security. (AP/Cliff Owen)

House Oversight summons Secret Service director to Sept. 30 hearing on breach

Susan Ferrechio · September 22, 2014 9:28 pm

White House intruder previously charged with weapons possession

Susan Crabtree · September 22, 2014 7:44 pm

"It is extremely upsetting to me and it should be upsetting to every American," Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings told MSNBC on Monday. (AP Photo)

National Security

House to investigate White House breach

Sean Lengell · September 22, 2014 6:30 pm

White House will now lock the front door

Brian Hughes · September 22, 2014 5:28 pm

The White House is framed with the fence on the North side of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. The Secret Service is coming under renewed scrutiny after a man scaled the White House fence and made it all the way through the front door before he was apprehended. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Peter King: We’ll investigate Secret Service over White House breach

Susan Ferrechio · September 21, 2014 5:05 pm