Secret Service Discloses 40 Barrier-Jumping Incidents
A total of 40 people have illegally crossed into restricted areas outside the White House in fiscal years 2009 through 2014. That's more than twice as many as ex-Secret Service Director Julia Pierson intimated in testimony before Congress in late September, said a report in the Washington Examiner.
Of the 40 barrier-jumping incidents that the Secret Service says occurred, just 10 involved individuals hopping the permanent fencing outside the White House, acting Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in a letter, the Washington Examiner said. The other 30 bypassed temporary blockades surrounding the complex such as police tape or movable metal barricades.