Pope Francis visiting US between 22 and 27 September – security beefed up

Homeland Security has already taken care of one security threat to Pope Francis who is scheduled to visit the US between 22 and 27 September and has taken necessary measures to beef up security at outdoor events that he would be attending.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 14 September 2015.

Congressman Michael McCaul, head of the House Homeland Security Committee, has revealed that one potential threat has already been stopped and that authorities were monitoring others. He has added that the Pope is a very passionate man and likes to get out with the people which carries a large security risk.
The US Department of Homeland Security has indicated that the visit will be a National Special Security Event which means the Secret Service will head the planning of security. These security checks would include airspace restrictions, screening checkpoints and a ban on balloons, selfie sticks and backpacks at papal events.
The pontiff will get a plane-side greeting from President Barack Obama in Washington DC on 22 September, and would become the third pope to visit the White House.
His schedule is to give a speech to the Senate and House of Representatives, address world leaders at the United Nations, preside over a service at the 9/11 memorial in New York and celebrate Mass at Madison Square Garden.
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It now appears that the intruder who evaded Secret Service and bolted into the White House on Friday was a danger to the President Barack Obama because he had 800 rounds of ammunition in his car in addition to two hatchets and a machete.
42-year-old Omar J. Gonzalez already had two prior run-ins with the law this year itself foxnews.com – the man is believed to be homeless, and had been arrested in July for evading police. At the time, he was in possession of a sawed-off shotgun, apart from a map of the D.C. area with the White House and Masonic Temple circled.
Details of the July 19 incident mentions that he had two powerful rifles, four handguns and other guns and ammunition in his Ford Bronco when troopers stopped him in southwestern Virginia. He made attempts to flee the troopers by weaving and driving off the road into a highway median.
When the troopers finally caught up with him, the illegal shotgun was found in his car along with the ammunition and a tomahawk.
Incidentally, Gonzalez is an Army veteran from Copperas Cove, Texas – he had been in service from 1997 until his discharge in 2003, and again from 2005 to December 2012, when he retired due to disability.
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The White House is one of the most heavily protected buildings in the world and the Secret Service chief has stepped-up security outside the White House following an incident of a man with a knife breaching the security nzherald.co.nz.
He had jumped the fence and made it into the presidential residence before being apprehended, and the incident against the background of another man being recently arrested outside the White House does raise questions – of course, the two incidents are not believed to be related.
It seems President Barack Obama and his daughters had just left the White House by helicopter when the 42-year-old Omar J. Gonzalez scaled the fence and darted across the lawn and through the unlocked North Portico doors before officers finally tackled him.
Initially Gonzalez was thought to be unarmed but he had a small folding knife with a serrated blade at the time of the arrest and would face charges of unlawfully entering a restricted building or grounds while carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon.
In the second incident, a man was apprehended after he drove up to a White House gate and refused to leave prompting bomb technicians in full gear to search the vehicle while agents shut down nearby streets.
The President has insisted that he still has confidence in the beleaguered agency's ability to protect him and his family.
In view of these breaches, Secret Service Director Julia Pierson has issued orders to enhance officer patrols and surveillance along the North Fence of the compound just after the incident which triggered a rare evacuation of the White House as well as renewed scrutiny of the Secret Service. Julia Pierson had also ordered a comprehensive review of what happened.
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