Secret Service wants $8 million to build fake White House

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Secret Service seeks $8 million to build fake White House for training

WASHINGTON – Still smarting from a string of embarrassing security incidents, the Secret Service is asking Congress for $8 million to build a replica of the White House to better train its agents.

Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy made his pitch for the fake White House Tuesday before a House Appropriations subcommittee.

Currently, agents are trained at a parking lot in Beltsville, Md., about 20 miles from the White House -- Clancy argued in written testimony that the facility is not enough.
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Agents have, in the last year, allowed two intruders onto the White House grounds, shut down traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue while the gingerly approached a downed dime-store drone like it was a UFO or an undetonated nuclear warhead, seen two of their agents crash drunkenly into a White House barricade and destroying a "mysterious package" that no one ever bothered explaining afterwards -- and that's not to mention the drunken whorehouse incident in Colombia in 2010 ...

... and they think it is their training that is amiss?I say, spend $8 million to fire the agents they got, hire a whole passel of new agents, and train 'em on the parking-lot layout of White House grounds they're training on now. They might be surprised at the results.
 
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Agents have, in the last year, allowed two intruders onto the White House grounds, shut down traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue while the gingerly approached a downed dime-store drone like it was a UFO or an undetonated nuclear warhead, seen two of their agents crash drunkenly into a White House barricade and destroying a "mysterious package" that no one ever bothered explaining afterwards -- and that's not to mention the drunken whorehouse incident in Colombia in 2010 ...

... and they think it is their training that is amiss?I say, spend $8 million to fire the agents they got, hire a whole passel of new agents, and train 'em on the parking-lot layout of White House grounds they're training on now. They might be surprised at the results.
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so I can assume that the 8 million figure is based on bids he's already received to build this mock up? That makes it even more weird.
 
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Sirk said:
so I can assume that the 8 million figure is based on bids he's already received to build this mock up? That makes it even more weird.
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Any government official: "Bids? What are 'bids'? Never heard of 'em. Don't we just tell people what we want and they tell us how much it costs?"

 
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I will tell them forget the $8 million dollars to make a mock up, just use the Pensmore mansion it is said to be practically indistructable...............LOL


 
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tourist said:
Maybe they could make one out of LEGO's.

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but they should use the mega block kind. I think it would be a material and labor saving way to go.
 
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You kiddin'? it appears you haven't priced Legos lately.
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That is true as to build one out of Lego's or Mega Blocks probably would cost more then brick and stone........
 
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I agree...fire the whole lot....including the top two dawgs.....half the government...including the top officials of all of the ABC agencies......
 
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Sorry, but in the national scope of things, where hundreds of billions are misspent - if we are all worked up over how a large agency is spending a mere 8 million, I immediately assume our attention is being diverted from something more important.
 
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They should just save the money and simply train at the actual White House. Mayhap if people see the Secret Service training at the White House from time to time they'd be less inclined to try to play a grand game of doorknob ditch.
 
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didymos said:
True, this minature version already costs $50, and it's a poor version of the original.

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True but you have to be smarter than a 12 year old to build it.
 
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Sirk said:
True but you have to be smarter than a 12 year old to build it.
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Oops! Well, so much for giving that project to the Secret Service. Or anyone else in Washington.
 
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maxwel said:
Sorry, but in the national scope of things, where hundreds of billions are misspent - if we are all worked up over how a large agency is spending a mere 8 million, I immediately assume our attention is being diverted from something more important.
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That is why we have the problem. A million here and a million there before you know it you are talking real money. Of course anything under a billion is just a rounding error. Round a little in my favor please.

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