Secret Service counts 91 breaches

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/06/AR2009120602556.html?hpid=topnews

2003 report has been used as training tool

By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 7, 2009

Long before a pair of gate-crashers penetrated a White House state dinner, the Secret Service had detailed for its internal use a lengthy list of security breaches dating to the Carter administration -- including significant failures in the agency's protection of the president.

A summary of a secret 2003 report obtained by The Washington Post, along with descriptions of more recent incidents by federal homeland security officials, places Tareq and Michaele Salahi squarely in a rogues' gallery of autograph hounds, publicity seekers, unstable personalities and others identified by the Secret Service as defeating its checkpoints at least 91 times since 1980.

The document, the most complete accounting of recent Secret Service security breakdowns, includes officers mistakenly admitting to the White House grounds a family in a minivan, a man believed to be a delivery driver, and a woman previously known to agents after she had falsely claimed a "special relationship" with Bill Clinton.

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Nevertheless, the list of security breaches exposes significant gaps that could be exploited by would-be assassins, the document states, and erode "one of the best tools for deterring future attempts" -- the aura of invulnerability around the White House...

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1. Not the only security breach under Carter

Also, military secrets have been leaked to China dating back to his administration as well. It continued into the next three presidents.

Just like Chinagate being overhyped in 1999, it seems that the Salahis are being overhyped this year, since the Secret Service has been exploited 91 times by falsified permissions before they came in.