Despite more than three hours of questioning by House lawmakers on Tuesday, Secret Service Director Julia Pierson neglected to mention another security breach that occurred just days before a knife-carrying Army veteran climbed over the White House fence and sprinted into the executive mansion. On Sept. 16, an armed security contractor with three convictions for assault and battery rode on an elevator with President Barack Obama and his security detail at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, violating Secret Service protocol. A Secret Service spokesman confirmed the Atlanta elevator incident late Tuesday but did not elaborate, citing an ongoing investigation of the episode. The chairman of the House committee with oversight responsibilities for the Secret Service called for an independent commission to do a "top-to-bottom" review of the agency. Pierson told the hearing the security plan for protecting the White House was not "properly executed" on Sept.
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By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
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