That he wanted to harm or indicate in any way that he wanted to harm any of the protectees of the president. Walking, and there was a bulge in the back of his jacket. As ive been briefed here. And the officer approached him, and noticed that he had a hatchet in the back of his pants. As i was briefed. The hatchet, my understanding, in d. C. Is not in violation of the law, if its considered to be used for campingtype activities. And thats what his individual indicated he had the hatchet for. The individual also allowed for gave a consent search of his vehicle. So he was very cooperative during the interview. When they searched his vehicle, there were no weapo found in equipment to again the story that he was involved in camping activities, so again he was released from the interview then subsequently on september 19 and again three of the officers who were familiar with the hatchet interview recognized him. Weve got a better job of communicating. There is officers who saw him more thing
Camp from michigan. Hes retiring at the end of the this year as you all know and were going to lose a tremendous talent in dave camp. But when he got together to take on the most ambitious reform of the tax code that i have seen in my lifetime, he said lets see if we can get the Corporate Income tax rate down to kind of that oecd country average, kind of that World International average. Lets see if we can get in there with everybody else. Thats striking to me because it is the best effort, again, that i have seen in my lifetime, and it was an effort to see if we can be right there in the middle, if we can be mediocre. I dont know when it became true in america that when we set our goals on doing something, our goal is to be kind of like everybody else. Well, thats the way they do it in europe. How it came to be that in america when we decide that we want to make a difference, we look around at what everybody else is doing and say lets be the same. I dont want to be the same. I want to
Drill further down into the deficiencies that have been revealed in the secret Services Policies and procedures, as well as any deficiencies with the physical security at the white house. In particular, i am interested in discussing how the service intends to improve security at the white house when, as was true on september 19th, the president or other protectees, are not present. A month after Omar Gonzalez was able to enter the white house, another fence jumper was quickly apprehended by secret service officers, including the k9 unit. It is my hope that this incident shows that the service has already implement reforms. However, the gonzalez fence jumper is just one of many events in the past few years that call into question whether the u. S. Secret service is doing all it can to fulfill its mission and prevent mistakes. Others include the colombian prostitution scandal. The recent ability of a Security Guard with a criminal history to take a service webben into an elevator with th
My time has expired and i will now recognize the Ranking Member of the crime subcommittee the gentleman from virginia mr. Scott for his questions. Thank you. Director clancy, thank you for being here. Yes, sir. One of the problems we have around here frequently is that when we do budgets, we dont think tax cuts affect the budget, and that budget cuts dont affect your ability to provide services. Can you describe a little bit about the budget ups and downs over the last three or four years . Yes, sir. When i came back to the secret service and accepted this position, i identified three three main areas of concern. One was staffing. One was training. And obviously the morale, as well. Staffing is its a complicated issue. Back in 2011, we were at a high point with our staffing. We had approximately 7,024 security personnel back in 2011. 2012 and 2011 im sorry, 2012 and 2013 we had a severe dropoff. There were some Uncertain Times from a budget standpoint and also we realized, from what i
[ inaudible ] is to be questioned in the u. S. And ill have your sport with details on the australian grand prix. Well begin with that breaking news the Turkish Coast guard has fired on a cargo ship carrying over 300 Syrian Refugees trying to reach italy. The coast guard shuttered the ships engine room after it ignored orders to stop. The passengers have been detained and they include 85 children. Zana hoda is live for us in beirut. Reporter syrians yet again find themselves in the middle of a cross fire. The coast guard fired warning shots. The ship ignored the warning shots, and they fired on the ship again. The people on board the ship are now detained. More than 300 people the majority Syrian Refugees. What we understand is that they will be questioned. The policy is when turkey arrests Illegal Immigrants they usually deport them back to their country, but since these people are syrians they are expected to be placed in camps. But this incident really is just the latest in a series