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In this Sept. 30, 2014, file photo, House Oversight Committee member Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, leads the questioning of then-Secret Service Director Julia Pierson as the committee examines details surrounding a security breach at the White House on Capitol Hill in Washington. The committee's ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Mid. is at left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

White House link to Secret Service prostitution scandal spurs questions on Capitol Hill

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Secret Service agents restrain John W. Hinkley Jr. in the aftermath of his shooting President Reagan outside the Washington Hilton. (Associated Press)

KESSLER: The Secret Service enabled the Reagan shooting

By Ronald Kessler

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Illegals OK in our backyard, but not Obama’s?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D- Md., (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) **FILE**

Complacency in Secret Service led to breach: Dem rep

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Rep. Elijah Cummings said Sunday that a majority of black Americans, excluding himself, fear the Secret Service is failing to adequately protect President Obama due to racism. (CBS/Mediaite)

Rep. Elijah Cummings says black Americans fear Secret Service is racist

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Jenna Scheidt of Fairfax, Va., left, and Abby Loss of Eau Claire, Wis., lean against a temporary barrier along Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. For sightseers looking for a glimpse of the White House, an iron security fence is now part of their photographs. In the past two weeks, “temporary” barriers have been installed to push the public back from the gate after an intruder jumped the fence and ran inside the executive mansion. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Barrier still at White House 2 weeks after jumper

By BRETT ZONGKER - Associated Press

Illustration by Mark Herron

Liberal Bully of the Week: Former Secret Service chief Julia Pierson

By Rusty Humphries

The Expendables: Written, directed and produced by President Obama

By Staff

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks at the Generation Progress's annual Make Progress National Summit in Washington, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. The summit brings together progressive leaders and young people. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Nancy Pelosi says Secret Service problem may extend beyond Director Julia Pierson, calls for inquiry

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Secret Service Director Julia Pierson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, before the House Oversight Committee as it examines details surrounding a security breach at the White House when a man climbed over a fence, sprinted across the north lawn and dash deep into the executive mansion before finally being subdued. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Julia Pierson resigns as Secret Service director

By Stephen Dinan and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., takes questions from reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 25, 2014. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Nancy Pelosi supports call for Secret Service chief to go

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Reps. Elijah Cummings (left), Maryland Democrat, and Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican, talk Sept. 30 before Secret Service Director Julia Pierson, former Secret Service Director W. Ralph Basham and former Assistant Homeland Security Secretary for Infrastructure Protection Todd Keil testify in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill about a recent White House perimeter breach. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Two senior lawmakers want Secret Service chief out

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and ALICIA A. CALDWELL - Associated Press

President Barack Obama pauses during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, in Washington. The signing of a security deal allowing U.S. forces to stay in Afghanistan aims to keep the country from slipping into the kind of chaos that followed the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq. Critics accuse President Barack Obama of putting the political goal of ending the Iraq war ahead of efforts to sign a similar pact there. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama rode elevator with armed man: reports

By Alicia A. Caldwell - Associated Press

Secret Service Director Julia Pierson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, before the House Oversight Committee as it examines details surrounding a security breach at the White House when a man climbed over a fence, sprinted across the north lawn and dash deep into the executive mansion before finally being subdued. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Inside the Beltway: The novelty of a Secret Service probe

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

This Sept. 21, 2009, photo provided by Jerry Murphy shows Omar Gonzalez, who was married to Murphy's mother, Samantha, until they divorced in 2012. Authorities have identified Gonzalez as the man who got into the White House after scaling a fence on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Courtesy Jerry Murphy)

White House says Secret Service should release more information about fence jumper

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Reps. Elijah Cummings (left), Maryland Democrat, and Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican, talk Sept. 30 before Secret Service Director Julia Pierson, former Secret Service Director W. Ralph Basham and former Assistant Homeland Security Secretary for Infrastructure Protection Todd Keil testify in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill about a recent White House perimeter breach. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Rep. Cummings: ‘Something is awfully wrong’ with the Secret Service

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

United States Secret Service director Julia Pierson and Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., leave a committee hearing on recent Secret Service agents behavior, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Members of both parties want more answers from Secret Service after missteps

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The Secret Service tightened their guard outside the White House since last week'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/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House fence-jumper reached East Room: report

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Secret Service police officers walk outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. Earlier, President Barack Obama said the Secret Service does "a great job." He says he is grateful for the "sacrifices" the service performs on his behalf and on behalf of his family. Obama made his comments Monday in the aftermath of Friday's security breach, when an intruder managed to jump the north fence of the White House and escape capture until he was inside the North Portico entrance of the presidential mansion. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Secret Service briefs Obama on fence-jumper incident

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A U.S. Secret Service K-9 sweeps the sidewalk around the White House facing Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, after protests by anti-war activists who blocked the entrance to the northwest gate. Security around the White House perimeter has been intensified since last Friday when a 42-year-old Army veteran climbed over the fence and dashed across the north lawn and entered the executive mansion before being stopped. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Former DEA agent to Secret Service: Quit texting — it’s ‘downright dangerous’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times