Blake Hall
Remember that knife-wielding Army vet who scaled the White House fence, sprinted across the lawn and burst into the building? Do you recall how the Secret Service was so inept that the veteran made it all the way to the East Room before he was apprehended? We do.
Nine months after Omar Gonzalez successfully infiltrated the White House, the Secret Service has improved its security by taking a cue from the Middle Ages.
Over the next six weeks, the White House fence will become extra spikey. While the current fence is plenty pointy as it is, the Secret Service is adding another round of spikes in order to make sure fence jumpers are even more skewered.
Impalement is only a temporary solution for the White House security problem. Looking at diagrams of the fence installation, one has to wonder why the president doesn’t just surround the White House with barbed wire. Or a moat.
