Is The U.S. Secret Service Failing To Protect President Obama?

Seems $1.7 Billion Can’t Make The White House Safe: Opening Line -- Bloomberg

During all that weeping and gnashing of teeth when the moment of sequestration arrived, we heard about myriad areas of the government and the U.S. economy that were headed for some pain, but we don’t remember hearing about the Secret Service.

We must have missed it, because surely someone would have hollered if we knew that its effect would lead directly or indirectly to the House Oversight Committee’s hearing yesterday. We came across this BGOV summary of the fiscal 2014 budget, which, conversely, shows the Secret Service got more than it asked for. There’s this summary of former Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano’s testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee in February 2013, but this doesn’t exactly count as a screaming headline.

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More News On The U.S. Secret Service

Long List of Breaches and Scandals for Secret Service Under Obama -- NBC
Secret Service director testimony omits elevator incident with Obama -- CNN
Exclusive: Secret Service missed man with gun in elevator with Obama -- Washington Examiner
White House security breach prompts Secret Service revamp -- AFP
Here come the calls for the Secret Service director to step down -- CBS News
Secret Service Chief’s Fitness Questioned by Lawmakers -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Lawmakers Rebuke Secret Service Chief Over White House Breach -- NYT
Secret Service director facing calls to resign after presidential security failures -- FOX News
Senior congressman wants Secret Service chief out -- Washington Post/AP
Lawmakers Put Heat on Secret Service Director Julia Pierson -- WSJ
Secret Service director facing calls to resign after presidential security failures -- FOX News
Secret Service Debacle: Lax White House security and misleading accounts -- Howard Kurtz, FOX News
Three unacceptable threats to Obama’s security -- Washington Post
Can the White House really be protected? -- David Wise, Reuters
What It's Really Like in the Secret Service -- WSJ