How Will the Onion Stay in Business When Serious News Sources Get Stories Like This?

(h/t Roger)

The American Secret Service made a proposal to build a White House replica for training purpose as part of beefing up security to President Barack Obama and his family.

The proposal was put forward by US Secret Service Director Joseph P Clancy while testifying before a congressional committee Tuesday.

The agency's budget request includes $8 million to build a White House replica to train its agents and officers.

  RTT News

Will they have to build a replica of every building Obama ever enters so they can train to protect him in each of them?

The Secret Service chief was questioned by the House Appropriations Committee about a series of recent security lapses.

He told the House Committee that the agency is seeking a replica of one of the world's tightest security buildings because his agents who currently train on a parking lot don't get "a realistic look at the White House " while training.

"Right now, we put up a makeshift fence and walk off the distance between the fence at the White House and the actual house itself. We don't have the bushes, we don't have the fountains," Clancy said.

Or the barricades, I suppose. They do already have the prostitutes.

After multiple slip-ups, the Secret Service has been under fire that it cannot adequately protect the official residence of the US President.

Yeah, I don’t think the problems the SS has been under fire for have anything to do with where they’re trained. They seem to be more about whether they’re trainable.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.