- a plainclothes surveillance team outside the fence didn't notice him
- an officer in a guard booth on the North Lawn either didn't notice him or couldn't stop him
- an attack dog was not released. "The handler likely felt he could not release the dog because so many officers were in pursuit of Gonzalez, and the dog may have attacked them instead."
- the front door was unlocked
- there was no guard at the front door
- there was also supposed to be a specialized SWAT team ready
- alarm boxes, called "crash boxes", were silenced because the ushers complained that they were malfunctioning and unnecessarily sounding off
- the jumper had been arrested two times previously with weapons outside the White House
- another jumper had jumped over the same stretch of fence the week prior
Epic failure. Why wasn't there a motion sensor device that sounded an alarm? Somebody's head should roll for this. How about Julia Pierson, the head of the Secret Service? Wait, you can't criticize a woman or you are sexist.
Julia Pierson
Update: More facts come out. Or at least I notice them.
- The jumper had been arrested in July and interviewed by the Secret Service. They were not concerned about him despite that fact that he had 11 guns and a map with a line pointing to the White House
- There were snipers on the roof who didn't fire
- He was tackled in the White House by an off-duty agent who just happened to be there.
- On September 19, shortly before Gonzalez vaulted over the White House fence, he was recognised by two officers who remembered him from the incident with the hatchet a few weeks earlier. Neither agent approached Gonzalez and neither reported his presence to superiors.
- A portion of Gonzalez' foot had been amputated and he was running with a noticeable limp.
- Gonzalez had 800 rounds of ammunition in his car
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