article_snippet.sent: Secret Service agents will take a bullet for the President of the United States, but apparently Secret Service agents won't swim for the President of the United States.
article_snippet.sent: When the public commissions with jurisdiction over the White House heard proposals for beefing up the presidential mansion's perimiter, the public commissions with jurisdiction over the White House were told that the government wouldn't be digging a moat around the building.
article_snippet.sent: A sitting U.S. congressman suggested in November that the Secret Service would be better able to protect the president and A sitting U.S. congressman family if 1600  
article_snippet.sent: A man named Omar Gonzalez scaled the existing wrought-iron barrier in front of the White House in September – and ran all the way into the White House while carrying a knife in A man named Omar Gonzalez pants pocket .
article_snippet.sent: then-Acting Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy replied that changes to the presidential mansion's perimeter fence was the main upgrade under consideration. '
article_snippet.sent: You're right sir, a higher fence would certainly help us,' the Secret Service director told Tennessee Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen.
article_snippet.sent: Secret Service Acting Director Joseph Clancy played mop-up in November, apologizing to Congress for hooker scandals, security breaches and a shooting .
article_snippet.sent: Among the Secret Service's recent embarrassing episodes has been a series of fence-jumping security breaches, including a man with a pocket knife who made it all the way into the East Room.
highlights_snippet.sent: Move comes after several fence-jumpers, including one who sprinted inside the White House .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Tennessee Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen asked the acting Secret Service director in November if 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue needed a six-foot moat .
  