Heads Are Gonna Roll At The Secret Service

[twyacht]

The "Dropped Ball" award goes to the Secret Service, as a couple slipped into the BHO state dinner Wed. and schmoozed and was even photographed with the V.P. They were not on the list, and many are relieved they were not there for another reason.

Pretty damn slick though...

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_salahi_state_dinner/2009/11/25/291180.html

Secret Service: Couple Crashed Obama Dinner

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:48 PM

A couple auditioning for a reality TV show managed to slip past the U.S. Secret Service Tuesday night and attend the first state dinner given by President Obama honoring the prime minister of India.

Worse yet, the incident only became known Wednesday after the couple, Michaele and Tariq Salahi, publicized the incident on their Facebook page with a picture of them posing with Vice President Joe Biden.

It was not clear Wednesday night how close the Salahis got to Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, or to the guests of honor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India, and his wife, Gursharan Kaur. The couple are two Virginians who have been auditioning for a possible role in a different housewives TV franchise: “The Real Housewives of Washington,” The New York Times reported.

The lapse is particularly grave given that threats against President Obama are up over 400 percent compared to his predecessor, George W. Bush, according to Newsmax correspondent Ronald Kessler, who first detailed the threat increase in his book, "In the President's Secret Service."

Edwin M. Donovan, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said Wednesday night that “initial findings identified a Secret Service checkpoint which did not follow proper procedures,” allowing the couple to gain access to the festivities, even though their names were not on the invitation list.

“It is important to note that these individuals went through magnetometers and other levels of security, as did all guests attending the dinner,” Mr. Donovan said in an e-mail message to the Times.


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Someone's not going to get a bonus this year,...or worse they will be transferred to protecting a "sensitive" VIP in Nome, Alaska...

 

[fightingquaker13]

This reminds me (appropriately enough) of Jimmy Carter. Day two in the Whitehouse, the head of the Presidential detail came to brief Jimmy on the evac procedures in case of a Soviet launch. The president was told that within minutes of a NORAD alert, he would be out of the Whitehouse and aboard Marine One to hook up with either Airforce One or another plane and gone in less that 30 minutes. Now, Jimmy may have been a bad President, but he did skipper nuclear subs. He asked his agent, "How much warning do you need"? The agent said "Just a phone call and we're ready to go". Jimmy says "Consider it given, lets go now". (Inaudible OH SHIT!, from the agent).Close to an hour later, Carter called the excersize off, still sitting on the tarmac. I'm not sure if they've yet scrubbed the blood off the walls from that one. This should be worse. Hell, they might have let Tom in with his gift of "antique New England hemp rope".
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[tombogan03884]

Or even worse yet, Crazy Joe Biden, without his muzzle 

[Timothy]

Check your history FQ......Jimma resigned his commision in 1953, the Nautilus, our 1st nuclear submarine wasn't commisioned until Sept 1954....he never set foot aboard a nuclear submarine until he took a tour of one while he was the President.

He never finished his degree in the field.  Rickover had some big plans for Jimma but they never came to fruition.

The Nautilus is currently docked (sans reactor) as a museum just south of the Sub Base in Groton, CT, about five miles from where her keel was laid in 1951, I've been aboard her myself and was lucky enough to track her last trip across the Atlantic from Holy Loch to the CONUS back in 1977 prior to her decommisioning in 1980.

[fightingquaker13]

Check your history FQ......Jimma resigned his commision in 1953, the Nautilus, our 1st nuclear submarine wasn't commisioned until Sept 1954....he never set foot aboard a nuclear submarine until he took a tour of one while he was the President.

He never finished his degree in the field.  Rickover had some big plans for Jimma but they never came to fruition.

The Nautilus is currently docked (sans reactor) as a museum just south of the Sub Base in Groton, CT, about five miles from where her keel was laid in 1951, I've been aboard her myself and was lucky enough to track her last trip across the Atlantic from Holy Loch to the CONUS back in 1977 prior to her decommisioning in 1980.

My bad Tim, I thought he commanded nukes. Still, the point of the story is the same. Every sub jockey is anal retentive about emergency action drills for a very good reason. It's like that old joke about a civlian reporter on a sub asking the skipper "How deep can this boat go"? The answer is "All the way to the bottom son".
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[tombogan03884]

Tim, was Nautilus that noisy or was she making no effort at concealment ?

[Pathfinder]

This reminds me (appropriately enough) of Jimmy Carter. Day two in the Whitehouse, the head of the Presidential detail came to brief Jimmy on the evac procedures in case of a Soviet launch. The president was told that within minutes of a NORAD alert, he would be out of the Whitehouse and aboard Marine One to hook up with either Airforce One or another plane and gone in less that 30 minutes. Now, Jimmy may have been a bad President, but he did skipper nuclear subs. He asked his agent, "How much warning do you need"? The agent said "Just a phone call and we're ready to go". Jimmy says "Consider it given, lets go now". (Inaudible OH SHIT!, from the agent).Close to an hour later, Carter called the excersize off, still sitting on the tarmac. I'm not sure if they've yet scrubbed the blood off the walls from that one. This should be worse. Hell, they might have let Tom in with his gift of "antique New England hemp rope".
FQ13

Yet another example of how Jimma was (before bho) one of the worst if not the worst US President ever. He clearly did not understand the situation, as he would not be the one making the effing call. NORAD would identify the threat, and then many many things would be happening in parallel.

Jimma was just being an asshole.

[tombogan03884]

One of the guys on his Secret Service detail wrote a book, Said Jimma might have been all smiles for the public but in private he was an argumentative prick.

[Timothy]

Tim, was Nautilus that noisy or was she making no effort at concealment ?

Little of both....we had little intel of ocean sound physics in the 50's so little effort was given to consider attenuating sound when she was built.  Sosus was in it's infancy as the first stations weren't active till '54 and had no idea what they were looking at anyway.  A whale fart could have been detected but the sonar techs would have nothing to base the signature on to determine what they were looking at.  This was the true begining of the cold war and eventually the end of any possibility that the Soviets could leave home ports without us knowing it.

[fightingquaker13]

Yet another example of how Jimma was (before bho) one of the worst if not the worst US President ever. He clearly did not understand the situation, as he would not be the one making the effing call. NORAD would identify the threat, and then many many things would be happening in parallel.

Jimma was just being an asshole.

And, as the world comes to a screetching halt, we agree. Jimmy was, by all accounts, a flaming asshat to work for. Play humble, and maybe live humble at home, but the boss from hell because he listened to his own propaganda. Something Reagan (mostly, but not always avoided) but Obama seemingly does not. There is nothing scarier than a man who drinks his own Koolaid, and it seems like this is the case.
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