Article Response #5 - "Secret Service directer Julia Pierson resigns"

For the past few weeks,  the numerous international issues that have been occurring as of late have received a large percentage of American news media outlets' attention. As I briefly discussed last week, the outbreak of the Ebola disease in West Africa is one of the most pertinent issues in the world today and is making international headlines.  

The Ebola crisis in West Africa has begun to hit closer to home for many Americans with the first case of the disease found in the United States two weeks ago. The Ebola patient, who has remained unnamed, was in Texas visiting his family after a trip to Liberia when he started displaying symptoms of the disease.  This has created a rising fear in the United States that, although the worst of the outbreak are in distant countries, this disease is still a real threat.  The commonness of  international travel and an increasingly interconnected global society means that when a disease is ravaging an area, it affects the whole global community.

 The  predicament in the Middle East with ISIS has also been in the forefront of international andAmerican news.  However, there has been a matter domestically that have not garnered the American attention and outrage that it otherwise would have. This is the high-profile security lapses   by the US Secret Service in protecting President Obama and the resignation of the Secret Service director Julia Pierson. 

Pierson's resignation came after two consecutive security breaches with the first of which being an "armed security contractor with a criminal record being allowed to board a lift with the president." Then,  three days after, "a man scale[d] a fence at the White House and enters through an unlocked and unalarmed door." 

These outrageous violation of our president's security are no doubt important and need to be continually dealt with appropriately. However, coupled with the global health and international terrorist threats, the Secret Security breaches fails to compare in urgency. 

Articles referenced:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29452829

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29447877