THE HILL — The White House said Sunday it remained confident in the Secret Service despite news that the agency didn’t realize for five days that bullets had hit the White House in a 2011 shooting incident.
“I know the Secret Service is on top of this and they will take every necessary step to correct any problems,” deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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Blinken said the agency was again investigating the incident as part of a review ordered earlier this month after a knife-wielding man was able to scale the gate outside the White House and run all the way in through the front door without being captured.
But the Obama aide largely offered praise for the agency tasked with protecting the president, saying “their task is incredible and the burden they bear is incredible.”
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