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   Washington: The man accused of getting inside the White House   
   after scaling a fence is a veteran who was awarded a medal for   
   his service in Iraq and retired due to disability, the Army said   
   on Sunday.   
      
   Authorities have identified the intruder from Friday night's   
   shocking incident as Omar J Gonzalez, 42, of Copperas Cove,   
   Texas, and the Army said he had served from 1997 to 2003, when   
   he was discharged, and then again from 2005 to December 2012,   
   when he retired.   
      
   The military does not provide details about a soldier's   
   disability due to privacy considerations. The Secret Service   
   tightened security outside the White House after the   
   embarrassing breach in which the intruder carrying a knife   
   climbed the fence, ran across the lawn and entered the building   
   before agents stopped him. The first family was away from the   
   White House at the time.   
      
   Increased surveillance and more officer patrols are among the   
   measures that Secret Service Director Julia Pierson ordered. She   
   also began an investigation into what went wrong.   
      
   A member of the House Homeland Security Committee said today   
   that it was astonishing, at a time of concerns about terrorist   
   attacks, that "someone could actually get into the White House   
   without being stopped."   
      
   Republican Rep Peter King said the intrusion was "absolutely   
   inexcusable" and he expected congressional hearings into the   
   incident at one of the world's most heavily secured buildings.   
      
   "This demands a full investigation, an investigation as to what   
   happened, why it happened and what's being done to make sure it   
   never happens again," he told "Fox News today."   
      
   Officials first said the fact that the intruder, identified as   
   Omar J Gonzalez, 42, of Copperas Cove, Texas, appeared to be   
   unarmed may have been a factor in why agents at the scene didn't   
   shoot or have their dogs pursue him before he made it inside.   
      
   But a criminal complaint issued late Friday revealed Gonzalez   
   had a small folding knife with a 9-centimeter serrated blade   
   with him at the time of his arrest.   
      
   At a hearing late yesterday afternoon in DC Superior Court, the   
   assistant public defender representing Gonzalez said Gonzalez   
   had no convictions or arrest warrants, had tested negative   
   yesterday for drug use and had been in the military for 18   
   years, including three tours in Iraq, according to The   
   Washington Post.   
      
   "This is someone who has provided service to his country and   
   shown commitment in his life," said the lawyer, Margarita   
   O'Donnell, as she tried unsuccessfully to get Gonzalez released.   
      
   http://ibnlive.in.com/news/white-house-intruder-identified-as-   
   army-veteran/500851-2.html   
      
         
      
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